Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [art] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful . |
| 2 | These exploratory adventures are conducted in the safe knowledge that they are carried out within sight of a parent , and if there is ever any doubt about this the infant can throw the occasional backward glance for reassurance . |
| 3 | ‘ The thought of being in one for a week and unconscious for half a day would n't have appealed to me very much . |
| 4 | Without some clear thinking about what Europeans and Americans still need from one another , the transatlantic partnership that has kept Europe safe for half a century will break apart . |
| 5 | Erm , now bearing in mind that half the year has gone , or will have gone by the time anybody arrived here , erm it seemed to me that where I , my analysis of that situation was that if we were going to achieve our target times , erm , then the theory would seem to be that we ought to make , er , two appointments now , I E two appointments for half the year will be equivalent to one appointment for the year , and that will produce the number of investigative hours which roughly that the formula says we need to knock off the required number of complaints in the required number of times . |
| 6 | Norfolk goes on to point out that people who go jogging in the city for half an hour can absorb the , equivalent of 10 to 20 cigarettes ' worth of carbon monoxide ( ‘ Jogging is completely unnecessary , ’ according to cardiologist George Sheenan , who wrote one of the early jogging handbooks , Running And Being . |
| 7 | Under Criminal Justice Act 1991 , s.2(2) ( b ) , in a case such as this the court will have power to pass a sentence which is longer than the gravity of the offence would justify , on the ground that such a sentence is necessary to protect the public from serious harm ( which includes serious psychological injury , see s.31 ) from the offender . |
| 8 | For some the spur may be that it would be more useful to be able to read the health and safety rules of the factory in which they work , or to be able to make sense of the words in the mail order catalogue in which they are required to shop . |
| 9 | For some the state should ideally not get involved in public communication . |
| 10 | For some the plan will be a series of single words or phrases which will act as the key to each paragraph , giving either the subject , idea , or argument for the paragraph . |
| 11 | Like other benefits , it would be means tested so that for some the care would remain free . |
| 12 | Yet in the excitement of becoming a parent it is easy to forget that for some the impact can be not so dissimilar from that caused by the discovery of a rival lover . |
| 13 | For this the Corporation would maintain the whole of the surface of those roads in the borough served by the Company 's cars . |
| 14 | To compensate for this the author might include remarks in p6 which somehow introduce p2 . |
| 15 | Through this the public will be better informed . |
| 16 | After that no studio would touch him , although he made a good living as an actor and was even reunited with Gloria Swanson to recount more glorious days in Sunset Boulevard . |
| 17 | After that the bottle will undoubtedly have broken or some fool will have accidentally released the spirit . |
| 18 | After that the bitch will be spayed and , hopefully , rehomed happily . |
| 19 | After this the treaty would be tacitly extended for five years at a time insofar as one of the signatories did not give one year 's notice of cancelling the treaty . ] |
| 20 | After this the temperature should have settled within the range in the table |
| 21 | Empirical evidence against my point might arise if there was significant support for the claims now made by some surgeons that a patient after such an accident can both will , and have conscious access to , the process of nerve regrowth ( as an alternative to the sort of superficial retraining of behaviour described above ) . |
| 22 | The area of dispute , which promises to occupy all of a meeting of EC finance ministers in Luxembourg today , is over the Commission 's proposal that the current system of exporting goods free of VAT be abandoned and that after 1992 the tax should be levied in the country of origin before export . |
| 23 | And hell , I thought ; I had been tired ; I was tired still , and I would phone that evening — definitely — and say I 'd fallen asleep , and nobody would be too bothered , and after all a chap could only cope with so much sorrow-saying in one day … of course I 'd phone . |
| 24 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 25 | The bill entered into force on March 13 , and under a transitional regulation in force until the end of 1990 citizens were allowed to resume using their former names simply by registering them with local authorities ; after 1990 a name could only be changed subject to approval and registration by a court of law . |
| 26 | Although memory that an arousing slide has been presented is generally likely to be extremely good , there is evidence that the types of details remembered about such a slide may be different from those remembered from more mundane slides . |
| 27 | The standards acceptable during such an assessment may be considerably different from those required of the final system , so adjust your assessment to the fitness for purpose of the results . |
| 28 | The input for such a reflex could come from a single class of broadly tuned vertical orientation detectors . |
| 29 | Support for such a position can be found in the Gospel and Epistles of John . |
| 30 | The basis for such a treatment would have some parallel with the imposition of a daily routine and 24-hour environmental cues upon premature babies ( see Chapter 7 ) . |