Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on a par with the rest of their good fortune that night — save the missing of Balliol himself — for nothing could more assist their project than to drive hosts of panic-stricken and riderless horses before them through the sleeping camp . |
| 2 | The choice between them should thus rest entirely on simplicity of key — the piece as a whole with all its modulations and sectional key-changes being taken into consideration . |
| 3 | The flashes of hostility between them could only make things worse . |
| 4 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 5 | It follows that any increase in the militancy of trade unions which intensifies the competition between them will also tend to raise the rate of inflation . |
| 6 | For , ‘ trust between a company and its external auditors is very important and interposing another committee between them will only make the relationship fraught ’ . |
| 7 | And that 's when , you see during I can just remember previous to the war them coming there and then of course during the war there was very very few of them on the road then and then after the war they started to come back and that 's when this Billy and Harry and that came up from the side . |
| 8 | Access to this flood of information about ourselves will eventually transform medical practice , and the first signs of this are already apparent . |
| 9 | Present evidence suggests that the numbers of the elderly who will find difficulties in looking after themselves will therefore increase : for example , about 20 per cent of the 80-and-over group are likely to suffer from dementia ( Grundy , 1986 ) . |
| 10 | The " Sunday Times " went to the extreme of publishing a " dummy " first edition to mislead the authorities on the night it broke the " spycatcher " revelations in Britain , but such devices are unavailable to television and radio programmes , the advance publicity for which will generally put the Attorney-General 's office on notice of a potentially embarrassing " leak " . |
| 11 | He hurried back to the Limousin and completed a piece of business , negotiations for which must already have been in train . |
| 12 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 13 | The payment of social security benefits to millions of people , most of whom would otherwise have little or no income , injects massive amounts of money into the economy . |
| 14 | Consider , then , two genuinely peace-loving ‘ players ’ , each of whom would most prefer mutual disarmament . |
| 15 | An avid reader of classical literature and a disciple of Tolstoy and Zola , she was a shining-star amongst the thousands of immigrant women in the city of Glasgow , many of whom could neither read or write . |
| 16 | Principally , a purchase of the business will involve detailed arrangements with customers , suppliers , creditors , the Inland Revenue and DSS ( with respect to PAYE and national insurance ) and Customs & Excise ( with respect to VAT ) , all of whom will either need to be notified of the change or consent to it . |
| 17 | I am in Glasgow , along with a handful of friends , all with good jobs , all with good prospects , two of whom will certainly lose out if Labour are elected . |
| 18 | ‘ I know what you 'd like to do — and it may surprise you , Kit , if I admit that part of me may even want to myself . |
| 19 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 20 | Thus , it advocated that the Colleges of Advanced Technology should become technological universities awarding their own degrees , the National Council for Technological Awards should be replaced by the Council for National Academic Awards , the Regional Colleges of Technology should develop a wide range of advanced full-time courses , and that some of them might eventually form the nucleus of other universities or become universities in their own right . |
| 21 | Rhee hoped the United States and Britain would recognise his provisional government ; a British Foreign Office minute from March 1945 reads , ‘ These people can not in any true sense be said to represent Korea and Anglo-US recognition of them might well lead to those [ problems ] we have experienced over the ‘ London Poles ’ . |
| 22 | Enough of them might also have left the county to reduce the population to a point which , by the 1520s , created a need for Breton workmen . |
| 23 | there is no better way , but er the problem with that is that , you know okay , you might get , you might get some peasants who say well we 're really grateful , we 'll go off and fight but some of them might just say no look , we 've got some land I 'm not gon na leave it , |
| 24 | So it did n't necessarily mean that you get a squad of riveters that would stayed together all the time , erm for various reasons , as I say they may have been , unfortunately some of them might even die and therefore you had to make up the squad again |
| 25 | One of them might never walk at all . |
| 26 | Not all the decisions in a given period can be carried out , since many of them may erroneously anticipate and depend upon other decisions which are in fact not being made . |
| 27 | but for some reason some of them may well lie within the |
| 28 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |
| 29 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 30 | All of them add to the quality of life of the residents , and many of them may also help you enjoy your work too . |