Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Locke 's day it was normal and Locke 's contemporaries I think would have had no problem understanding this what he meant . |
| 2 | Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment . |
| 3 | The words I used may strike you as generous , or too romantic , but they are not inaccurate , merely inadequate . |
| 4 | The editor would also have the authority to make decisions when Pilger was away on one of his frequent trips abroad , within guidelines which Pilger would lay down . |
| 5 | The list is long and varied and what you choose or the combinations you try will depend on what you want your event to achieve . |
| 6 | Readers who sympathise will know that when ( too late ) the teaching of recognisable chemistry is started the courses are indigestible , driving many students to less worthwhile subjects . |
| 7 | Instigated by people in offices who say let's put out a guidebook . |
| 8 | However the type of relationships you have may affect how you view safer sex . |
| 9 | Lose weight more quickly than ever before , because a larger proportion of the calories you consume will remain undigested ; |
| 10 | The music she listens to must be composed and played by women , the books she reads must have a woman author . |
| 11 | I shall approach their work , in short , in the light of the pragmatist belief that a study of the problems they pose and the solutions they offer may provide us not merely with a new perspective on the scope of holistic explanations , but also with the best means , in the end , of assessing their strength . |
| 12 | I mean they 're not a linguist but the words they use will say a lot about what they think about . |
| 13 | As the new funding councils for the universities and for the polytechnics and colleges develop systems of contracting , the institutions ' room for manoeuvre in the subjects they offer may diminish further as their programme performance and their accounting arrangements are subjected to ever closer scrutiny . |
| 14 | And he said erm well he said we can ta take into consideration you 've four kids he said can extend it for twenty eight days |
| 15 | He stayed close , hoping his warmth might help her , staring protectively out into the night as if the strange images he saw might try to harm her . |
| 16 | BARCLAYS Bank has spent more than £5m equipping its 1,500 sales staff with laptop computers it claims will limit the likelihood of clients being given unsuitable advice . |
| 17 | The institutions which joined would retain their identity and members would retain their existing designations as well as receive new ones . |
| 18 | A high proportion of trials which begin will end in settlement rather than judgment . |
| 19 | The descriptions which follow will tell you how to achieve and maintain certain performances by appropriate scan technique . |
| 20 | Gaining an understanding of the ‘ money matters ’ involved in retailing will help you see how important your own part is : all the everyday transactions you perform will affect your shop 's long-term financial plan . |
| 21 | You add up all the bills you know will come in over the next year — plus a bit more for contingencies — and divide by twelve . |
| 22 | If we bear in mind that the institutions that did not reply may also have included some for whom the questionnaire was inappropriate , we can assume that the responses we obtained would represent somewhere approaching half those working in teacher education at the time . |
| 23 | However , the areas they inherit will have been developed according to policies very different from those supported by the local council , which is after all the elected body . |
| 24 | The functions they provide may include a selection of the following : electronic mail , fax , telex , word processing , records storage and retrieval ( both individual and shared ) , diary scheduling ( people and facilities ) , internal reference information , spreadsheets , access to other applications , and the importing and repackaging of data from other applications . |
| 25 | Daewoo Research Institute , a private think-tank , says that pre-tax profits for the 350 companies it analyses may jump by 14.3% in 1993 and 26.4% in 1994 . |
| 26 | In two years Gould could not possibly hope to cover all the areas he guessed would prove rewarding . |
| 27 | The agreements also allow the EC to impose ‘ safeguard measures ’ — restrictions — on surges of imports it thinks could damage local producers . |
| 28 | The reason for for local plan consultation is such that erm it gives the opportunity for objectors to make comments and otherwise , and that District Council and the the County Council erm should consider er objections and it 's i it it happens that erm the local authorities you know can change their mind as the process goes along . |
| 29 | A few extracts I believe will suffice : March 11th , 1335 , he carried out an ordination , the following day , March 12th the first tonsure of seven clerks and on the 15th , another ordination . |
| 30 | For some , the ratios mentioned and the ideas which followed will seem pious and wishful . |