Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 If the vulnerable organic layers did not exist teeth would not rot so easily but then they would be brittle and would probably break early in life .
2 If your needs go beyond the basic resole , repair shops can also help .
3 ‘ which was not fitted ’ This point is proved by an examination of the motor vehicle which in these days of mass produced cars will generally reveal that a horn is fitted .
4 Similarly , amalgamated schools might well enter their subject indexes .
5 He one morning received an unexpected phone call from a former colleague , now selling futures at DPR : " Repairing cars wo n't pay your bills , C … " she said .
6 All that Mr Clarke has confirmed is the Tory confusion over tax policy , with the new Chancellor saying that no prudent Chancellor would promise taxes would never go up , and the Prime Minister who promised tax cuts year on year . ’
7 But there was sometimes another logical reason for resisting change , although the people who proposed improvements could never admit it .
8 In this first category we consider three main criticisms : ( a ) that the model developed in chapter 4 can not account for a major feature of all economies ; ( b ) that the model relies for all its results on very simple specifications of the aggregate supply and demand curves ; and ( c ) that even if one accepts the model as it stands governments might effectively stabilize the economy if they possess better information about the economy than the private sector , or indeed if different parts of the private sector possess different information .
9 Ed 's comment : Test kits can quickly deteriorate with age , and if they do you will of course get variable results from them .
10 Vendors say organisations will usually buy immediately they have state credits to avoid losing out on the plunging value of the rouble .
11 Contractors and skip firms should not deliver skips to customers unless the customer ( whose responsibility it is ) has obtained a permit from the roads department .
12 I say wonders will never cease I have just written a receipt for Mrs and I have put it in her envelope and I have written my name in , in on , I 've put from and put my name and crossed out caretaker and put treasurer and I have put underneath we do not have a caretaker so we will see what happens How did , how is it that they got to go back with them ?
13 Yet say teams should n't win at any cost
14 Therefore , gaining resources may not depend on the logic of the case but on a number of other factors .
15 ‘ In my evidence to the Sizewell inquiry , ’ said Gittus , ‘ I say that 99 per cent of core melt accidents would not cause a melt-through of the concrete base mat .
16 Police investigating the incident at Rose Hill say residents must now come forward if they know anything .
17 Thus the process of anchoring scientifically originated notions may not have such a devastating effect upon traditional beliefs .
18 Test factors can sometimes suppress and sometimes enhance the size of the original effect , as we shall see .
19 Admissions staff say students should n't panic as no-one will lose a place .
20 An agreement to provide services will not suffice , and a charge of attempted obtaining should be used .
21 Danson wants to quit his key role as bar owner Sam Malone , and TV bosses say Cheers ca n't go on without him .
22 Climbing grades can often conceal the true character of a route , as Dave Cook has discovered down the years
23 Press conferences At the national level , press conferences can often prove to be a waste of time and effort .
24 The pragmatist thinks judges should always do the best they can for the future , in the circumstances , unchecked by any need to respect or secure consistency in principle with what other officials have done or will do .
25 Nor should we any longer ignore change in the changing world : We should grasp the opportunities offered now , because if action is delayed circumstances can soon turn against us , as they have so often in the past .
26 But the AA thinks commuters might not get away with it a third time .
27 The amount at which materials are charged out to sites on stores issue notes must therefore reflect the whole of this on-cost if the stores are to be operated on a profitable basis .
28 And setting targets and measuring sticks to evaluate projects would definitely increase efficiency if done properly .
29 Gail Vines and Michael Barnes refer in their article ‘ Hypnosis on trial ’ ( 6 January , p 12 ) to an experiment by J. Stalnaker and E. Riddle in the 1930s in which hypnotised subjects could blithely recite the Longfellow poem The Village Smith , confidently inserting their own words for forgotten lines or verses .
30 These deeply cut ravines might not seem too demanding , but some of them give unusual approaches to the high moorland plateaux , passing through impressive rock scenery which can offer the simple joys of scrambling , often above deep pools linked by cascades and waterfalls .
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