Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a property tax — there is not now any contention between the two main parties about that — we can either tax the kind of house and say , for example , that all three-bedroom properties shall be taxed the same , in which case my hon. Friends should be aware that we would soon have tremendous anomalies as the same tax is placed on a Mayfair flat as is put on a flat in a mining village , or we can have regional banding , and then there must be boundaries between regions . |
| 2 | Not only were they more cheaply remunerated — at the church 's expense , mainly — and far more experienced in the business and technicalities of administration and negotiation , but their clerical status gave them a weight which most laymen could only acquire by aristocratic connections or by ennoblement ; lay chancellors , to be of any consequence , needed political and dynastic links , which could also spell danger for the king . |
| 3 | At first all refused and then Miss Knox agreed on condition her two friends would follow . |
| 4 | The labour which rural families can devote to export crops will not grow significantly as a proportion of the total and — except where export crops have a very high value , as in the case of horticulture — they will grow only slowly , if at all . |
| 5 | Her career has become a kind of obsession ; her voice , the instrument of his enrapturement , a thing to be cherished and protected , to the degree that social life is circumscribed because of the effect which smoky parties might have on her . |
| 6 | Using existing data sets , it will make initial estimates of the scale of any effect which low incomes might have on the health if the elderly in Britain , and go on to assess the likely role of some intervening variables which might account for the close correlation between income distribution and longevity in developed countries . |
| 7 | The reason is that the arbitration system to a large degree adjusts wages in line with the cost of living thereby reducing the ‘ threat ’ effect which rising prices would otherwise pose to workers ' living standards . |
| 8 | The courts should not deny themselves the light which Parliamentary materials may shed on the meaning of the words Parliament has used and thereby risk subjecting the individual to a law which Parliament never intended to enact . |
| 9 | The regime has in fact over-corrected , but the harm which excessive centralisation might do is diminished by the degree of de facto autonomy which many provinces have acquired . |
| 10 | The white lines show the body 's electric force which energy-giving crystals can tune into |
| 11 | However , an explicit consideration of the broader themes of education management as such is a luxury which fewer people will have had the time , or perhaps the inclination , to undertake . |
| 12 | To think that he , a mere footie fan whose main worry used to be which trainers to don for the teen-mag centrespread , should bravely take on lyrical biggies like politics , passion , life , death , apathy , religion , hope , irony and despair . |
| 13 | ‘ I bought Picnic because Nick Skelton told me to , he knew I did n't have the biggest cash flow in the world , ’ Steven Smith said of a horse whose awkward streak would have been reflected in the price . |
| 14 | Tribunals might well have continued to develop without any critical analysis of their impact on the administration of justice , had it not been for one of those incidents of poor administration whose wider implications can not be ignored . |
| 15 | These include the natural desire for autonomy by the director who sees his institution as serving national and , indeed , international needs and the equally natural desire of the local council to retain control of what it has always historically regarded as its own institution whose main function should be to meet the needs of the region . |
| 16 | Fair trial for fibre Geoff Hamilton scrutinises the newest cocofibre trials , and shells out on a cocoa shell mulch his lime-hating plants will love . |
| 17 | There were other confusions — he was vain , she could smile at that , and yet many times he seemed unaware of the effect his strong presence could have on others . |
| 18 | That homework should last approximately half an hour or whatever it consists of , erm reading , written work , finishing off drawing research whatever that homework should be handed in the next day , form teachers to remind classes of this and to co-ordinate delivery of the books , papers etcetera to the member of teaching staff and that the non production of homework is to be the concern of the member of of teaching staff and not the form teacher , although regular non producers will be the concern of us all . |
| 19 | On the dredger what other jobs would you have to do in the way of maintenance , you said you had to repair the buckets . |
| 20 | Yeah , but , but our dep our , our department our fat slob wo n't allow it wo n't let us have any overtime |
| 21 | Using an extra RAM card your own settings can be stored and recalled for future use , or for use with another A2 — possibly one installed in a studio you are visiting . |
| 22 | The only programme our free-with-petrol tranny would pick up was Soviet propaganda , in English , late at night . |
| 23 | Wood engraving was a technique which most artists could not manage , so a craftsman was needed to translate the drawing ; on the other hand , an artist might be expected to do his picture on the stone , from which it would be directly printed . |
| 24 | There are some legal arrangements of queens on the board which this representation can not depict . |
| 25 | The main part of Residents ' Association case is that the amount of relief afforded by any western relief road , does not justify the environmental damage which that road will cause . |
| 26 | There are three basic forms of advantage which privileged groups may enjoy : |
| 27 | As part of a sexual sub-culture which conservative America would rather did not exist — but fears to attack in the open — Mapplethorpe was an obvious target for the new Know Nothings . |
| 28 | Social workers — caring workers generally — are " entrusted " with a burden of responsibility which many people would find impossible and most would find repugnant . |
| 29 | Thus shared use of computer , library and training facilities can be organised regionally or nationwide to a level which individual firms could never hope to attain on their own . |
| 30 | Confined to their present role , trade unions would remain a response to the exploitation , actual or hypothetical , of employees by employers — a response which meritocratic benevolence would , if performance matched intention , progressively reduce to a satisfied silence . |