Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [modal v] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dwells in a high tower looking down on the metropolis and can often be seen flying high above it on his War Griffon Stormwing . |
| 2 | Dr David Horrobin , whose Efamol company specialises in evening primrose oil , says this natural product is approved by the National Health Service for the treatment of breast pain and certain forms of eczema and may soon be used as a way of preventing diabetics going blind or suffering from kidney disorders . |
| 3 | Finally one might hope that some useful distinctions could be drawn between ‘ having a mental experience ’ and ‘ being aware of having such an experience ’ which seems much closer to our usual view of consciousness and must certainly be an emergent property in evolution . |
| 4 | PAYING off the mortgage ahead of time is certainly the safest investment and could also be best for taxpayers who fear reduced returns on deposits if Labour wins . |
| 5 | There seems to be a fairly common misconception that cichlids are all cichlids and can therefore be mixed . |
| 6 | To this the magazine responded : " We note that Mr Arkell 's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you could inform us what his attitude to damages would be , were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows : fuck off " . |
| 7 | X and her husband could find peace of mind and could somehow be helped to strengthen their marriage . |
| 8 | Like all acts of faith , it is not capable of mathematical or logical demonstration and can therefore be disavowed by those who do not share it . |
| 9 | This week it 's our drama series , Family Pride , the country 's first Asian soap opera , which goes out at teatime on Thursdays and will soon be shown three nights a week on Channel Four . |
| 10 | Effluent in rural areas is usually discharged visibly into watercourses and can often be traced without much difficulty to its source . |
| 11 | HCIMA has been working closely with ARA Services to see how the standard can apply to catering and John Sharpe FHCIMA , the company 's quality development director , admits that contract caterers , unburdened by the extra difficulties caused by owning premises , are perhaps better suited to the concept than other sectors and will increasingly be asked in tender documents about their approach to BS7750 and its quality assurance forerunner 5750 . |
| 12 | Some scholars are uneasy about this interpretation because the sign-groups give only approximations of words and can therefore be made into several different words : the sign-group ‘ po-lo ’ , for example , can be made to mean as many as eight different Greek words . |
| 13 | It had been believed that England would be seeded to head Group F and would thus be based in Calgiari , Sardinia . |
| 14 | To some extent this may be ameliorated by offering a cash alternative to shareholders , but the offeror must be prepared to defend its own financial condition and may even be compelled to issue a profit or dividend forecast in order to buttress its position . |
| 15 | They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful . |
| 16 | But this still allows Sartre to argue , for example , for the legitimacy of the use of violence by colonized peoples against their oppressors , thus anticipating Fanon 's dictum that colonization was achieved by violence and must therefore be overcome with it . |
| 17 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 18 | Normally they held their offices during the King 's pleasure and could therefore be replaced when they were no longer fit for duty . |
| 19 | Although the technique is more time consuming , the mitotic cells obtained are of better quality and are useful for C- and G-banding ( Figure and can also be used for in situ hybridization ( Section 6 ) . |
| 20 | We reasoned that the lack of cooperativity at the UV5 promoter should result from the loss of productive interactions between the two proteins and could probably be visualized on the promoter DNA at the hinge region between the binding sites of the two proteins . |
| 21 | CECIL therefore provides an objective way of determining the pitched of words and phrases , which could clearly be a great help , both for analysis and for language learning , but the information it provides is only raw data and must still be analysed . |
| 22 | Debris and algae collect in the medium in the inner tray and can regularly be changed and disposed of . |
| 23 | He says he 's thought to be carrying a pump action shotgun and may now be a traveeling criminal . |
| 24 | On occasions , some of the rules can appear esoteric when viewed in isolation but can usually be explained by reference to one of the General Principles . |
| 25 | Deals with investors tend to be direct in the case of large institutional holders of government stock but will often be through agency brokers in the case of personal customers . |
| 26 | The next four instruments depend for their efficacy upon incorporation into contracts , though a codification of custom and usage could perhaps be relied on as the best evidence of custom and usage and as such be imported by implication into a contract , whilst the adoption of general contractual conditions is not the exclusive prerogative of private parties but can also be achieved by embodiment in bilateral or multilateral Conventions implemented by dispositive legislation in the various participating States . |
| 27 | Obviously something like a car could only be considered a bribe ; on the other hand a vacuum cleaner , say , may be too expensive to give away in bulk but could certainly be offered for comparative testing . |
| 28 | Communication does not necessarily involve words but can often be non-verbal too . |
| 29 | SVQs will therefore not only be recognised within that industry but will also be regarded as a counterpart of the NVQs accredited by NCVQ in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | These might represent distinct proteins but may also be degradation products of CREB or ATF1 . |