Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the receipt message is acceptable , the holder may subsequently update it by requesting , for example , that the date and place of shipment be inserted in the message as soon as the goods have been loaded on board . |
| 2 | You should resist the impulse to buy £1,000 tanks — at least until you get out in July 2023 when that sort of money should comfortably get you a 2′ × 1′ . |
| 3 | ‘ The sentence must also make it clear to others that the law will not permit individuals of excellent character , such as yourself , to take the law into their own hands . ’ |
| 4 | Both convergent and divergent modes of thought are necessary for a creative act to occur : the writer must actually arrange his freely associated ideas into organised prose or the scientist finally home in on the solution to a problem . |
| 5 | When illustrations are numbered , the frontispiece is not usually included , and a catalogue description should always make it clear whether or not the stated number of plates has taken account of it , e.g. ‘ 12 plates including frontispiece ’ or ‘ frontispiece and 20 plates ’ . |
| 6 | Occupation of any receptor coupled to phospholipase C ( and hence to PKC ) in the heart should theoretically precondition it . |
| 7 | There is no reason why the drafter should not use punctuation ; proper punctuation is a useful aid to comprehension , and the drafter should therefore use it . |
| 8 | Heads of Department may then permit you time off in lieu ’ . |
| 9 | Probably most parents subscribe to this view , and while they may not deliberately choose particular methods of child care to bring about a specified long-term outcome , their belief in the association may well make them feel an added responsibility . |
| 10 | Use of a partnership may also make it easier for management to obtain interest relief on their borrowings to invest in the business ( see s362 TA 1988 and Inland Revenue Concession A43 , as compared with ss13A and 360 in connection with a loan to buy an interest in a close company ) . |
| 11 | Our hearer may even reject them outright as false . |
| 12 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |
| 13 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |
| 14 | Catchy slogans and jingles Words and phrases that stick in your mind may well prompt you to buy a product when you see it in the supermarket . |
| 15 | ‘ But when the dedicated thousands leave , the club may finally realise we still mean business . ’ |
| 16 | The social services department should also tell you about services provided by itself or other services known to it which could be of use to you . |
| 17 | Richard wondered why living on a largish boat should automatically make him interested in small ones . |
| 18 | Yet no sooner was the decision taken than he quailed at the prospect , for he knew that a full expression of the rage lying at the root of Emilia 's melancholic condition must quickly overwhelm him . |
| 19 | But their sense of curiosity , their enquiring mind must always take them a stage farther … " |
| 20 | The courier might even do it . |
| 21 | Industry might well find it easier to raise money on continental securities markets which may have surplus funds available or offer more innovative ways of raising share capital . |
| 22 | Bloody ballbag 'll probably phone me in the morning or something . |
| 23 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 24 | Tess could now see him clearly . |
| 25 | Lorimer could certainly hit it harder than Mel — but I came to the decision that he was nt really the specialist free kick taker . |
| 26 | The combination of the words and the music of this hymn could unfailingly elevate her to a state of rapt and ferocious ambition and desire ; she pictured , even at a most tender age , not the pearly gates and crystal walls and golden towers of some heavenly city , but some truly terrestrial paradise , where beautiful people in beautiful houses spoke of beautiful things . |
| 27 | This instrument could conceivably tell us something about the reflectance and fluorescence from the plant . |
| 28 | The problem could just be confined to this guitar and removing the strings and lightly tapping the frets down with a block of wood and a small hammer could well fix it . |
| 29 | Mom gave birth to a baby boy , and called him Winchell ( not after the doughnuts , though the association would later cause him grief at school ) . |
| 30 | But anything on the side would perhaps break it . |