Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would arise where a defendant could not prove , on the balance of probabilities , that his story was correct , that someone else was responsible for causing personal injury or damage to the vehicle taken or to other vehicles and articles , and that he was not a party to the offence . |
| 2 | i Should be located where the exhibition can be supervised , if only to avoid the material being stolen ( known to have happened to one of the Green Belt min–exhibitions ) ; |
| 3 | In the old Tarzan movies they used drums , and they also used natives and the warriors carried a stick , they called it a forked stick and it looks like the assembly might need a new set of forked sticks |
| 4 | And in six weeks ' time , we will know if the cup will remain with San Diego YC , or go to Italy , New Zealand , France or , less likely , Japan . |
| 5 | I would like to know if the machine can be converted to full time four wheel drive , There are no real advantages to permanent four wheel drive but , if you wish to , use the transfer box from a 1948–50 Series One . |
| 6 | It is too soon to know if the initiative will touch off an Italian-style mop-up of Brazil 's mob . |
| 7 | Dave happened to take a telephone call from a British Rail official who wanted to know if the Bank could provide a counselling service for workers facing redundancy . |
| 8 | In agriculture , biotechnology may have a major impact on crop yields — the yield from cassava in Africa could be quadrupled if the plant could be made resistant to African cassava mosaic virus . |
| 9 | Off season , she doubted if the attraction would be open . |
| 10 | Johnson said he doubted if the King would speak to them and Colonel Macleod had a go at Jamie : ‘ I am sure Mr Boswell would speak to him ’ — Boswell underlines the pronoun . |
| 11 | They doubted if the public would respond to a call for a second general strike over what many would see as only the shooting of one man in a period of frequent shootings and violence . |
| 12 | For what a horse does under compulsion … he does without understanding , and with no more grace than a dancer would display if a person should whip and spur him during his performance … |
| 13 | Where it is required to find the inverse Laplace transform of a function G(s) which may be expressed as the ratio of two polynomials , the problem is readily solved if the function can be split into partial fractions . |
| 14 | To establish if a pupil can be sustained within St Augustine 's ( to date only one panel declined to accept a pupil ) . |
| 15 | That is happening because the Government will not make local councils representative of and accountable to their electorates . |
| 16 | Plans for dismantling the relic and rebuilding it as part of a railway heritage at Preston Hall museum have collapsed because the bill would be at least half a million pounds . |
| 17 | The house where they were living has been re-possessed because the owner could n't keep up with the mortgage payments . |
| 18 | But some doctors say while the memo may have been withdrawn , the unfairness remains . |
| 19 | Clients contemplating determination of an issue by an expert will wish to know whether a decision can be reached which will be final , and , if not , on what grounds they or the other party can mount a challenge ; whether they can sue the expert ; and whether they can avoid cost and formality . |
| 20 | The data so produced may be of use to parsing systems , whenever it becomes necessary to know whether a noun must have a certain feature , not merely that it may have it . |
| 21 | The actual grammar rules and certain of the features employed are different ( e.g. sentential grammars have no feature to indicate whether a word can be further inflected ) but the underlying principles and mechanisms are similar . |
| 22 | A system of flags is also stored here to indicate whether the word must begin with a capital to form a valid word , if the word is a common mis-spelling and a flag detailing whether the word can begin a compound stored in the compound tree . |
| 23 | Some may doubt whether a myth may be stratified , but let that pass . |
| 24 | But if a voidable disposition were registered before being avoided , I would doubt whether the register could be rectified under paragraph ( d ) , even if the disposition were voidable on account of fraud . |
| 25 | Shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair struck a more balanced note when he promised that Labour would be tough on the criminal and on crime itself , although many will doubt whether the party can achieve this . |
| 26 | But you see I , I do n't know I can see what you mean , but I do n't know whether a move would be the answer cos I think you 're if you 're gon na stay in teaching this is what 's gon na happen . |
| 27 | Charles says , with relish : ‘ I do n't know whether a psychologist would say it was the trauma of the divorce but she had real difficulty telling the truth purely because she liked to embellish things . |
| 28 | But at the beginning of the war , when things were very doubtful , and we did n't know whether the army would commandeer all our buildings or what , and we started to make bench models of this er iron shearing machine . |
| 29 | I do not know whether the Minister would agree that , until now , we have heard explanations from both sides of the Chamber about the imperfect and expensive competition which has arisen as a result of the privatisation of the electricity supply industry . |
| 30 | I do not know whether the Minister will come back with the news that the farmers want . |