Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 post traumatic stress , I have my own views about what will happen there
2 We must remember that to deny someone control of their own lives is to offer them a most profound insult , not to mention the injury which the frustration of their wishes and the setting at naught of their own plans for themselves will add .
3 The Dutch , for example , had what at least from their own point of view were admirable and generous plans for what might have turned out to be an independent Indonesia ; but , like the French , had failed to persuade their Republican adversaries that their ultimate freedom was assured in European hands .
4 I have already had queries about what will happen .
5 Other long-tail types impair flight and show greater sexual dimorphism , but variation in their initial evolutionary cost suggests differences in how female preferences for them may have evolved .
6 Right so has anybody got any sort of strong opinions about who should go ?
7 The new tenants have no rules about what should happen in the pub .
8 " There 's rules about who can ride up with the driver , " I said looking at John Russell and wondering if he had any ideas .
9 Ultimately , he dashed out of bed and caught a cab to the theatre — where he arrived thirty minutes after what should have been curtain time , to see his erstwhile audience walking away , dejected looks on most of the faces .
10 There had been doubts about which would break first , Christmas or booksellers ' spirits .
11 Those who have any doubts about it should note that there is scope for further improvements in productivity .
12 The decisions you make concerning the right goals for you will depend on your current weight , your optimum weight , and the eating and exercise habits you recorded in your preparation phase .
13 The Jews of Jesus ' day believed there were millions of demons about who could possess people , causing illnesses of mind and body and tempting them to sin .
14 Many of us share some deeply felt worries about what will happen under the current procedures until the changeover takes place in 1993 .
15 A good picture is worth any number of words for it can communicate a point quickly and succinctly , and in any language .
16 A DoT spokesman said : ‘ These trips of his may sound like jolly larks , but he is being very irresponsible .
17 Under the present definition of such schemes , the beneficiaries of them may include not only present employees of the company concerned , but also employees , or former employees , of it or any company in the same group , and the spouses , widows or widowers , children or step-children under the age of 18 , of any such employees .
18 Her mind kept flicking back to the python smile of the assassin , conjuring images of what might have been : death , blood , pain .
19 Some aspects of it may shock you . ’
20 However , it would help the student if he were introduced to it briefly and with simplicity , not only because a knowledge of serialism is essential to an understanding of today 's music , but also because so many aspects of it can enrich other methods of composition , even in other styles and idioms .
21 But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house .
22 In this exciting , optimistic approach it is important to have the ability to create pictures of what could happen in the future — ideal solutions and potential achievement .
23 At times I become so obsessive about the dangers that I find myself making lists of what could go wrong .
24 Do n't shake your head Mr , read the letters that are coming to me , from those schools like who can see the reduction in their budget next year .
25 People are bound to miss Gary Lineker but successors like me must score a few and establish reputations of their own . ’
26 Sir : Had today 's date been 1 April many readers like myself would have nodded with quiet pleasure at your splendid little follow-up about Thatchergate ( 4 October ) .
27 Journalists who call to the farm to interview me do see us in that setting and describe it as they will but those really are only momentary glimpses into what must remain , fundamentally , my private life .
28 As the object shrinks further , no signals from it can cross the sphere with the Schwarzschild radius , not even light .
29 I wondered how these men had managed to endure thirty or more trips in what must have been far worse conditions than this ; in bad weather , being shot at , having to concentrate on map reading and peering through bomb sites , and watching out all the time for enemy fighters .
30 Loyal and moderate as the noble constitutionalists seemed , any concessions to them might open the way to federalism , separatism and even more dangerous tendencies .
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