Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only used to a little bit of |
| 2 | Men take on an obligation to maintain their children and their wives , and refusal to take paid employment in order to do so can in the last resort lead to imprisonment . |
| 3 | Breathe as you normally would for a few minutes . |
| 4 | The advantage of having a text in computerised form is that you can find things in it very easily using computerised search techniques , and you can do more complicated searches than you ever could with a printed concordance . |
| 5 | I feel now that I can express myself better than I ever could in the last fifteen years ; I 've even gotten into the Mississippi Delta style , fingerpicking blues . |
| 6 | She could n't take their mother 's place , of course , but for Liz 's sake she must try to do everything she possibly could for the little girls . |
| 7 | Waltz 's criticism of Kaplan to the effect that rules do not make a system invites a hermeneutic retort that nothing else possibly could in the social world . |
| 8 | In each of the referendum campaigns since his return ( September 1958 , January 1961 , April 1962 ) , the government had manipulated the outcome as much as it decently could in a democratic system . |
| 9 | The County Council 's view has always been , before you face that hurdle , let's agree or get the principle accepted and then we move as quickly as we possible er as we possibly can towards a preferred erm location . |
| 10 | Really slam into the punch bag , hitting it with a constant barrage of punches as fast and as hard as you possibly can for no more than 15–20 seconds . |
| 11 | I mean , I think that one should put as much service as one possibly can into the preventive end — I ca n't see it as an either/or ! |
| 12 | The organisational side of the investigation described here will in the great majority of cases reveal what went wrong , either physically and mechanically or from a procedural or handling point of view . |
| 13 | Is it desirable that the finest and most sensitive part of a woman — that which God gave her , should on the one hand be wounded with such a wound as no proud and gentle nature ever recovers from , or else should on the other hand be deadened so that the woman becomes only half herself , and this is what the tyranny of the medical profession has accomplished . |
| 14 | Another factor which may influence the chances of conventional videodisc players is that in the 1990s , the collection of high quality , permanent recordings of movies and other programming might appeal in a way it never could in the early 1980s . |