Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , cards should be exchanged one at a time and with some care . |
| 2 | While this is taking place they should be given plenty of nourishing food and a varied diet . |
| 3 | Being a very tall and large plant , it should be given plenty of room , and ideally should be grown as an accent plant . |
| 4 | Because of the large size of the plant it should be given plenty of room to develop , especially as an accent plant . |
| 5 | ‘ I agree totally that where fixtures are moved to another day , supporters should be given plenty of notice so they can make their plans well in advance . |
| 6 | ‘ I think a man who neglects his wife should be given lots of lashes , man . ’ |
| 7 | Whereas in Los Angeles I manipulated costly hot and cold water in appropriate vessels throughout the house , Bali is a network of streams and rivers which , like veins and arteries , must be distinguished one from the other for their various uses . |
| 8 | To discharge the node , added electrons must be removed one at a time , which needs a definite voltage change . |
| 9 | And now I find myself eating tomatoes in the winter , which must be considered something of a luxury . |
| 10 | Aggressive , aggression might be tied it with getting your own but being assertive is not about getting your own way . |
| 11 | With Mike Harding 's book — £11.99 in the shops but absolutely free to all new subscribers — and a year 's worth of Outdoor Action , you 'll be guaranteed plenty of ideas for new places to walk — and you 'll get a good read each month as your issue of Outdoor Action is posted through your door . |
| 12 | Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny . |
| 13 | Even if the arrangement within each class was a branching tree , the classes themselves could be set one above the other to form a continuous sequence . |
| 14 | A characteristic historical exhibition may be called something like ‘ The Age of Rembrandt ’ , or ‘ Shock of Recognition ; the landscape of English Romanticism and the Dutch seventeenth-century school ’ ; both of these are actual titles . |
| 15 | Groups of gens related in this way from phratries and phratries may be linked one to another in a similar fashion to form tribes . |
| 16 | Tonight , two of the piles , including the highest bridge , would be offered nothing but brushwood . |
| 17 | I may never know it in this world but I shall be told it in the next . |
| 18 | Independent software vendors will be charged nothing until the second year when a $2,500 fee per company will be levied . |
| 19 | You will be given plenty of practice on the course but you must take every opportunity to build on your strengths and overcome your weaknesses . |
| 20 | In addition to the enormous amount you will learn on the day , you will be given lots of helpful written information to take home , and have the opportunity to buy relevant Domino publications . |
| 21 | These factors will be taken one at a time , and the scientist will set up experiments to test them . |
| 22 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 23 | We have done some work with your offices on that , and whilst on most of your activities are n't happy with er the scale of such that it does cause me a problem , there is one particular area that we are in discussion with the Chief Executive , and your offices relating to doing work for other bodies to and the contract vehicle hire service , and er , that 's something which we will and no doubt will be brought us in the very near future . |
| 24 | First , though MI5 is notionally under the control of the Home Secretary he will be told nothing about its day-to-day operations . |
| 25 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 26 | Standard machines measure 600 mm ( 23⅝in ) deep by 595 mm ( 23⅜in ) wide , to fit between units and can be stacked one above the other , but , unless you have a separate utility room , that does not leave much space nearby for storing laundry supplies and accessories or setting down the just cleaned laundry . |
| 27 | It goes to the root of the Positivist idea that hypotheses can be tested one at a time by comparing their implications with objective , neutral facts of experience . |
| 28 | A creature , therefore , can be taught nothing for which the inner , instinctive potential is not already present as a latent pattern in mind and muscle . |
| 29 | If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness . |
| 30 | It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics . |