Example sentences of "[noun sg] [indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could lead you from that paragraph on page three fifty over to page three six four page three six four , one two three , four paragraphs from the top it 's ab it 's the second of two paragraphs that begins the Board affirms the church 's th that Christ teaches that marriage is special and divorce is not the way he would wish for his people and then this sentence no-one would wish to condens condemn someone to stay in a marriage which is beyond redeeming . |
| 2 | FEB 1992 In the 36 hours following the TOP launch in February 1992 senior managers talked to all Station staff , including shift workers , to explain the need for change and the part everyone would play in the process . |
| 3 | She was to travel the twenty miles by train , into the city , and they were to meet , in the restaurant of Marshall and Snelgrove , to have coffee and talk , to shop together for this and that , a new spring suit , some curtain material , a lampshade and the Ceylon tea nobody would stock in the village , and back for lunch , and then for tea , with aching feet and happy conversation , until their trains home . |
| 4 | After condemning the ‘ Baudelairean ’ atmosphere of the nineteenth century ( ‘ it is the triumph of romantic disorder ’ ) , and its cult of individual genius , Jacob goes on to stress the objectivity of modern poetry ( which is by contrast ‘ a universal poetry ’ ) and the fact that a work of art ‘ is of value in itself and not because of any confrontation one can make with reality ’ . |
| 5 | On the French side one may begin in Paris with the emotional response of the Consultative Assembly to the cable which de Gaulle read out on March 20 1945 from one of the French garrisons fighting for their lives in Tonkin . |
| 6 | Walking through the village on any racing day one would hear conversation like , " What do you know today Fred " and the reply would bring forth such words of wisdom as " Watch Richards in the 2.30 " , or " Back top weight " for these men had a language of their own and in the evening , meeting over a pint the locals would discuss the downfall of the favourite or starting prices and often the first greeting one would get on opening the door of the bar was " How did you get on today " Tich " " , and often the reply was " First and second , Fred " . |
| 7 | That strength of mind one could sense below the surface , that glow of authority that seemed to radiate from his skin . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're the most marvellous lover anyone could wish for . |
| 9 | In battle none could stand against them , for the Dragon Princes of Caledor were fearsome mages as well as mighty warriors , and their steeds were terrible to behold . |
| 10 | Let us now return to consider the kind of assistance one might expect from computers in relation to the particular areas of personnel work referred to earlier . |
| 11 | This is rather like an attitude one might take to the philosophical discussions about whether we have free will or not . |
| 12 | Any international satellite dish one might see in Vancouver or Los Angeles will point toward its ‘ bird ’ , low on the western horizon — the Pacific satellite . |
| 13 | The first question which should be asked on this subject is why use microcomputers Is the starting point for the selection of software either ( a ) because in this technological era everyone should know about microcomputers or ( b ) for sound learning aims and objectives ? i.e. do school librarians and teachers start from the skills and processes or because of the existence of software ? |
| 14 | ‘ The path between the car park and the sports centre is quite dark and I imagine it 's the sort of place someone could lie in wait . ’ |
| 15 | And this distinction between an hour as sixty minutes and an hour as a section of complex human experience , is I suppose the distinction one would make between clock time and what might be called existential time , time as it 's humanly experienced . |
| 16 | If one possesses some which are at or near the high' earning period one must plan in the realization that the high earning period is not likely to continue indefinitely . |
| 17 | It is , cynics might say , exactly the conclusion one would expect from scientists in the pay of the CEGB . |
| 18 | But the most important conclusion one must reach about Jurassic times is that much of the form of the present continents had then been blocked out as it is today . |
| 19 | With hindsight one can point to the underground man complaining that if he could manage even to loaf and idle around wholeheartedly he would be able to call himself a lazy man . |
| 20 | At the present moment one can think of Chaliapin and Battistini among the men , Calvé , Bahr-Mildenburg and Ackte among the women . ’ |
| 21 | To the extent that the grammar formalizes the same principles as those of preferred pragmatic inference one can think of grammar , as Levinson has suggested , as ‘ frozen pragmatics ’ ( Levinson 1987 ) . |
| 22 | There was hopscotch , er and then all of a sudden everybody would start with hoops . |
| 23 | At the moment anyone can decide to be a farmer and look after 300 pigs . |
| 24 | A Palace spokesman said : ‘ In times of recession one should look at cost-cutting and the princess has done just this . |
| 25 | It follows that , whatever sympathy one may have over Chris Patten 's defeat at Bath , it nevertheless set the seal on Central Office 's performance . |
| 26 | Whatever sympathy one might feel for the restaurateur in the present case ( or for any other defendant who might suffer economic loss , social ostracism , shame or intimidation as a result of publication of details pending charges which may or may not result in his conviction ) nothing in the present case comes close to satisfying Lord Diplock 's test . |
| 27 | That is why in the last resort one must depend on faith . ’ |
| 28 | There was a peculiar hissing sound in the room , a radiophonic kind of vibration , a noise one might expect on the sound-track of a science fiction film as the visiting card for the presence or arrival of aliens with long , bent , furry legs and eyes as scorching as red-hot coals . |
| 29 | In a topic on industrialisation one might look at the effect of industrialisation on a rural community without work . |
| 30 | Of course something will have to be done . |