Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agreement was prompted by the visit of a G-7 delegation to Moscow on Oct. 26-28 , which had threatened that republics ' attempts to divide up the Soviet Union 's estimated $60,000 million debt between them would threaten further Western financial aid . |
| 2 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 3 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 4 | Certainly , this broader remit seems eminently sensible , partly because the existence of strict demarcation lines between advanced and non-advanced further education is harmful to both and partly because the distinction between them will become more blurred as and when the provision of recurrent and continuing education is expanded . |
| 5 | Similar impressions seem to arise from sentences such as I may leave tomorrow and I can finish it next week . |
| 6 | Erm the it was about I should imagine well guess , three years old back then . |
| 7 | ‘ If that 's all you 're worried about I can explain simply enough . ’ |
| 8 | It is only fair that tourism should not , like ivy , choke the Alps , since if the ‘ product ’ is not looked after it may slip well past its ‘ sell-by date ’ . |
| 9 | From our very earliest days the sort of pattern of attachment we form with our parents or those that look after us will influence how we feel about any relationship later in life . |
| 10 | If there 's insufficient space for the army of fans , many of them might end up on the beaches , which the Italian police have expressly forbidden . |
| 11 | It probably wo n't get us very far , but you never know , one of them might come up with something . ’ |
| 12 | I have passed it round the various organisations within the parish and some of them may reply directly to your office . |
| 13 | Although most of these techniques are expensive and difficult to use , it is possible that at least some of them may become more easily available ; they can be very useful both for discovering in detail how English speakers produce their speech sounds , and for demonstrating to learners of English their pronunciation errors in a way that helps them to correct them . |
| 14 | Under the present definition of such schemes , the beneficiaries of them may include not only present employees of the company concerned , but also employees , or former employees , of it or any company in the same group , and the spouses , widows or widowers , children or step-children under the age of 18 , of any such employees . |
| 15 | Philip hoped he 'd find his dog and the pair of them would clear off . |
| 16 | A gang of them would meet there , graduating from Meccano and toy farms to risqué games of Dare , illicit cigarettes , speculation about sex . |
| 17 | The drinks machine was in the passage leading to the library and sometimes one or other of them would sit down for a break , and she found it a relief to talk to a real human being . |
| 18 | Any one of them would bring in a good profit . |
| 19 | response at our end , and as as I said , I know that person , three particular incidences which were good incidences to report two of them would 've certainly resulted in arrests , and they got an absolutely negative reply . |
| 20 | Every now and then one of them would stand up on the sofa and trample restlessly round like a dog resettling itself into its sleeping place . |
| 21 | My wife kept an open door for them and any time Well at the weekend they 'd Some of them would drop in , you know , for a chat , aye . |
| 22 | Many of them would do perfectly well in disciplines which are less idiosyncratic than English and have a more obvious international currency , like linguistics or economics or marketing . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh man , I 've had these pants on so long , there are potatoes growing in them , ’ one of them would start off . |
| 24 | Some of them would suckle forever if they could . ’ |
| 25 | If those who profit from the sale of descriptions of their investigations and speculations about matters of public interest are not restrained by fear of appropriate penal or financial consequences from publishing defamatory statements which are false , it is likely that some of them would publish so much in the nature of defamatory allegations against public organisations , and the men and women who run those organisations , that the public , if there was no effective process for determining whether the charges were substantially true or not , might cease to be greatly concerned about the charges save for such amusement as the stories might provide . |
| 26 | Then suddenly one of them would call out ‘ Aye , aye , lads … here 's the cops ’ and they 'd all move . |
| 27 | Sometimes one of them would call out , softly , and then they 'd all listen . |
| 28 | I knew the people from the ship — the crew used to go out at night-time and some of them would come back merry . |
| 29 | Did she say most of them would come down ? |
| 30 | None of them would look out of place in the local supermarket or disco . |