Example sentences of "[adj] [Wh det] i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Somewhere , they told me in Nairn , is a hawthorn tree carbon-dated 1372 which I must find , because Boswell mentions it ; the ‘ hawthorn-tree , which rises like a wooden pillar through the rooms of the castle ; for , by a strange conceit , the walls have been built around it ’ . |
2 | Central News Video I Activity Book 1 Central News Video II Activity Book 2 which I shall deliver to the Press in accordance with the letter agreement . |
3 | Now this this what I 'd like you to do , is read it out but only read the absolute bare bones of it . |
4 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
5 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
6 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
7 | It is further agreed that the approach adopted by the court of appeal in the case of and incorporate of nineteen eighty nine , one queens bench page eight hundred and seventy eight , is that which I should adopt , er the person which seeks to persuade me that the percentage which I should apply should be four point five percent rather than the two percent used in that case by the court of appeal , he argues partly on the basis of er , evidence by Mr an architect who er , with the greatest respect to him , whilst I feel quite sure his architectural abilities are of the highest quality , I feel that as an economist he is perhaps er not more reliable than any other economist , er but er , Mr argues that er , recent falls in house prices show that houses are not the risk free inflation proof investments which the court of appeal assumed when and was decided . |
8 | ‘ Mind , I do a bit of tourist guiding of an August and it 's amazing what I can find then . ’ |
9 | P P G three , the revised P P G three when it came out clearly , in my opinion changes the emphasis from the draft P P G three from the draft P P G three , paragraphs thirty two and thirty three which I would emphasize should to be read together , clearly indicates that new settlements are as someone said this morning , sorry , earlier in the discussion today , an issue of last resort . |
10 | It is these which I will emphasise . |
11 | That made sense , I thought ; and I was n't sure which I would choose , to go or to stay , if Dee-Dee was right . |
12 | ‘ And if , by some magic wand , I was to be offered an overnight cure for just one of them , I am not sure which I would choose . ’ |
13 | I 've got some super snaps of you all which I shall send on to your mum , Billy . |
14 | I do not criticise , I merely observe ; and I 'm not sure what I would think if everyone lined the rail to admire the play of light on the water and started discussing Boudin . |
15 | For a first course at dinner I ordered a mixed starter , not sure what I would get . |
16 | I 'm not sure what I 'll do when I finish . |
17 | I were n't sure what I 'd have done but |
18 | How can we criticize it , how well does it actually fit into what happened in the real world , they just want little bits of information but not too much depth on anything but always remember empirical evidence examples are very important what I would do is using those examples or la last year 's exam paper , practise , practise the short answers because you ca n't write very much detail in it so it 's a good idea to have some idea about how much you can write , then your expectations will be changed okay . |
19 | It 's more what I can do for you . |
20 | But she had my Aegean Greece , which I hope said to her more what I should have wished to say . |
21 | got first which I 'll get a different trophy from last year cos I 've got the same trophy for two years . |
22 | I shall attempt to demonstrate that a synthesis of positivism and natural law is possible and that what I shall call ‘ normative positivism ’ is consistent with the account of criminal law which I favour . |
23 | I immediately knew that I would have to write about the whole experience , and that what I would write would be illuminated with sentimentality . |
24 | Is that what I 'll say ? |
25 | I hope you are only passingly depressed by my letter & that what I can write later on will erect your spirits . |
26 | ‘ Is that what I should do ? ’ |
27 | Is that what I should fight for ? |
28 | Perhaps I can say , that what I 'd like to see is N C V O be much more corporate in the way it approaches things , erm , many of you will have seen many of our publications , but , you may not always realise they come from N C V O , sometimes it 's not always easy to see that , you have to search through and , not always find it , and we 've got many different images , so I think it 's important we er get a whole corporate image across . |
29 | Yes , thank you Chairman , I hope to be slightly er more brief erm , in proposal of the Liberal Democrat budget of er , er three , six O point six million which I would remind with your permission is the er the minimum target er , er suggested by , by . |
30 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |