Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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1 | With differing or conflicting values they would often be pulling in different directions and pursuing incompatible goals . |
2 | If you 're a mother or expectant mother you can get free vitamins for yourself while you are pregnant or breast-feeding , and for your children aged under five . |
3 | Children may headbang , throw themselves on the floor , kick furniture , scream , and cry but as long as they are safe and are not escalating into aggressive or destructive behaviour they should be quietly ignored . |
4 | If your car is stolen or damaged as a result of theft or attempted theft you will have to pay the first £100 of the cost . |
5 | Whether it 's a long-term or short-term problem you will find gentle exercise and relaxation through yoga will be beneficial to you mentally and physically , and we always find that a good massage goes a long way to easing tension and making you feel better . |
6 | Seven or eight miles I should think . |
7 | When applied to particular urban or rural situations it will reveal the dynamics which , while attracting some into the fellowship of the churches , are at the same time excluding others . |
8 | you know if you 're in this area or that area we 'll pick you up and take you home and the phone just does n't stop ringing |
9 | Hitler 's instruction to curb anti-Polish activity meant that what they could not accomplish by open violence or legalistic chicanery they would have to accomplish by stealth and skulduggery . |
10 | It made the readers share in the horror it described and thereby so disgusted , shocked and outraged them that instead of tending to encourage anyone to homosexuality , drug-taking or brutal violence it would have precisely the reverse effect . |
11 | Please note that we would be most grateful for any handouts or further information you would like to send us . |
12 | By choosing a career in advertising or public relations you will be in this complex and exciting business of communication . |
13 | In either advertising or public relations you will work for many clients with a multitude of problems and try to offer them solutions . |
14 | should have an opportunity of reconsidering the form of restitutionary or remedial order it will seek against these defendants . |
15 | But her acknowledgement of her feelings for him was still new , and even while wanting to be with him she felt nervous , terrified that by some small look or too-ready smile she might give away her feelings — that she did n't want to say that goodbye — and that to do so would break her heart . |
16 | I 'll get back from work and one of our boys is just getting up , or another day they 'll all be just sat there , and you 'll find all the bread 's gone . |
17 | If you 're a Libran who just has to say what 's on your mind come hell or high water you could be heading for a stormy time . |
18 | Ralph Williams is just 39 and for 30 of those years , he 's bought every ancient tractor or old machine he could get his hands on . |
19 | The most recent research suggests that children who were breast fed have higher intelligence than those bottle-fed from birth , after allowing for the extra time breast-feeding mothers might spend with their babies or extra effort they might put into mothering . |
20 | Towards the end of August or early September you will need wood of the current year 's growth that is quite firm and mature . |
21 | ‘ If people want to go swimming in early evening or early morning we would advise them to go to a swimming pool , ’ a spokesman said . |
22 | So if you find a good Irish joke and want to tell it about another local or ethnic group you could do so . |
23 | Y'know kind of kind of comments or playful thoughts you might pass about somebody but you you try not to do it seriously as it were , you try not to let it affect your behaviour towards them , you try to not be surprised if they disclose they 're gay or heterosexual or whatever so er |
24 | All this is on the assumption that the proposed issue is exclusively for cash ; when it is proposed to allot shares as consideration payable to the vendor on the acquisition of a business or real property it would be impossible to make an offer to the existing shareholders on the same terms . |
25 | Cor , there was boxes of brand new tools come down there , spanners , and they used to be the , like these , like a big chopper , well they used to have couple of all with erm breezed up with erm like greaseproof paper over 'em , bag 'em up into the holds , guns , there was guns , what done with the guns they hit the er , just near the barrel or the trigger , th they used to flatten them out so they could n't use 'em but they all went in the ships bombs , or little shells they used to find in there , all scrap iron . |
26 | If I do that two or three times I can make about half the cost of the room per day at the hotel — honestly . ’ |
27 | If you listen carefully , over two or three interviews you may build up an understanding of the themes and patterns of what the person is trying to say , through watching out for repetition . |
28 | It is a valuable piece of equipment , and my hon. Friend may like to know that in the next two or three years we shall proceed with some large modifications to it which we estimate will bring about £4 million worth of work to PBN on the Isle of Wight . |
29 | Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency . |
30 | ‘ If we did n't shoot them , ’ he says , ‘ then within two or three years they would be so out of hand that we 'd have to give up sheep farming . ’ |