Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we live in a free society we can not carry out experiments on the real world so it would not be possible to go ahead and build the road just to see what would happen . |
| 2 | If two woman in a relationship want to have a child then there is the technology to have a child that 's their right to go ahead and have one . |
| 3 | Unlike modern tape systems , it was possible to jump backwards and play a word again quickly if it was n't clear . |
| 4 | But , what we would say to you I think this morning , Chair , is that in your officers ' view erm , yes , we think it is sensible to go forward and manage on the basis of five hundred thousand pounds addition towards that shortfall , we become increasingly nervous if that five hundred thousand pounds is reduced , and because of the uncertainty , again later in the papers you will see still have some contingencies that you could use from savings in previous years , and we will be strongly recommending to you that you retain some of those contingencies because of the uncertainty that still attaches to demands in the community care grants . |
| 5 | Most burglars will flee empty handed rather than risk a confrontation . |
| 6 | The tone of the cymbals played thus is much inferior to that produced when a cymbal can be held so that both are free to vibrate equally when clashed together . |
| 7 | It is always dangerous to prophesy , but I am prepared to do so and say that it will not be possible to hold the pound at DM2.95 . |
| 8 | ‘ . When the signatories said that he or she would be prepared to enter into a deed to formalise the situation , they were not postponing the legal effect of the document or reserving a final view but merely saying that they would be willing to do so if required , ie record in a more formal way the transactions which had already been made . |
| 9 | You 're free to leave here and go home today . |
| 10 | I 'm sure many of you would prefer to get your weekly social started rather than listen to me . |
| 11 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 12 | I would only add that although the behaviour of some of our major construction companies is a little short of criminal in some cases , no amount of legislation will change things unless subcontractors are prepared to band together and take a much firmer stance against some of their tactics ( they could start by employing members of the Institute perhaps ) . |
| 13 | Completion of the eastern counties railway network removed the last barrier ; now labour was prepared to move rather than tolerate chronic want . |
| 14 | A few did not agree with Mr Knightley 's decision to allow the quarry to go ahead , even with certain provisos , and they were prepared to say so and explain why . |
| 15 | During 1930 the total of unemployed had more than doubled to 2,600,000 . |
| 16 | Great longing leaves the soul free to feel clearly and spurs the imagination to create what is most truly desired . |
| 17 | With examples like these , it is easy to go further and accept , for the purposes of the story , that even Gandalf 's good intentions would not resist the Ring , and that Galadriel too does right to refuse it at I , 381 . |
| 18 | You are not content to sit there and listen and observe — you need to tell anyone teaching you something new that you learn best by getting involved . |
| 19 | His concluding words were : I do not find it easy to stand here and tell those of you who are deaf that you have had a poor education , and that your children are having the same poor education . |
| 20 | Out of nerves and hero worship , he had three double Scotches before setting out and two more on the way , and then made himself self-destructively late by going into a greengrocer 's to buy some mint to chew so as to disperse the Scotch . |
| 21 | I would feel deprived to lie somewhere that had none . |
| 22 | and then just joined those that were easy to join together and building it up that way , but he 's doing curls on the bottom of G's and |
| 23 | When is it appropriate to tell rather than ask ? |
| 24 | ‘ You 're welcome to go downstairs and see if that thing 's still about , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 25 | Yet the survey also found the same drivers were far more likely to drive badly and to flout the law . |
| 26 | I said I thought it too valuable to wear constantly and had put it in my dressing-table drawer . |
| 27 | There is also a Darwinian reason that we believe in free will : A society in which the individual feels responsible for his or her actions is more likely to work together and survive to spread its values . |
| 28 | likely to increase rather than reduce the rate of inflation . |
| 29 | Market forms of supply are likely to increase rather than reduce the maldistribution of wealth . |
| 30 | Children soon take advantage of this inconsistency and the ensuing reward not only negates any potential influence of the punishment ( misbehaviour is likely to increase rather than decrease ) but debases the currency of the parent 's words and deeds . |