Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least talking about that will make us appreciate just what we ve got now … and what Wilko and ALL the players have done … right back to old Mickey Thomas . |
| 2 | Find it , and you may have a crime to write about that will let you bring to vivid life the social customs and curiosities of a day before yesterday . |
| 3 | Yeah , but just sa say , if you come from th the top you , you 're like a a waist thing round you and if you fall off that 'll catch you . |
| 4 | But their leaders thought Germany had too much on its plate to change its definition of nationality and that holding up the asylum reform for that would cost them too many votes . |
| 5 | He can not delay any more for that would reduce his credibility among his Hong Kong constituents ; they would be justified , moreover , in thinking that further waiting would sacrifice their interests . |
| 6 | In these circumstances they can not be seen to be sacrificing their independence for that would undermine their claims to being objective in taking decisions at work . |
| 7 | Now breathing , breathing in erm poisons , we 'll go over this in more detail erm , there 's so many things as we 've already gone through that can cause us asphyxia , one of them 's poison in itself is n't it ? |
| 8 | And to substitute one state controlled , interventionist society for another would do nothing to help solve the problem . |
| 9 | As much of his work makes clear ( see particularly Labov 1982b ) , the chief objective was not to describe relationships between speaker and linguistic variables , although this was certainly an interesting by-product of quantitative method which for some might comprise its main significance ; it is certainly of great practical interest to a number of professions ( see chapter 9 ) . |
| 10 | What makes a task easier for some may make it more difficult for others . |
| 11 | A handful of gold for some could mean plenty of dust for us all . |
| 12 | Another way of considering the position of black workers is to consider their socio-economic group ( see chapter 3 , section 3.2 for discussion of this measure ) for this will show what level of job black workers hold . |
| 13 | She had laughed then at the vivid imagination of the child , but now for a brief moment she saw the city as Maggie saw it , basking in the first rays of the sun and oblivious to the dangerous mist below that might suck it in before it could wake up and take wing against the now blue blue sky . |
| 14 | We were gon na wax his fucking legs argh , he did n't ar , he did , he was n't screaming cos the thing we said like if you move this , your , your will be slit sort of that 'll keep him dead still right |
| 15 | Jacques Delors wants his budget increased by 30 per cent , and some of that could have your name on it . |
| 16 | To write a biography of another can involve one in autobiography . |
| 17 | Moore suggests that recognition of this may open our minds to the possibility that there is a plurality of goods . |
| 18 | Discussion of this would lead us into great complexity and it is appropriate to give a largely phenomenological description . |
| 19 | A few weeks of this would set him up . |
| 20 | ‘ How kind of you , ’ she said , balancing nicely on the edge of irony , in case a few minutes more of this should see him running out of line to shoot , and make it desirable to jettison him , ‘ how kind of you to tell me all about it ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If there is a particularly nasty piece of business to be got out of the way , a quick dose of this will bring it to a head quickly . |
| 22 | Do n't listen to the well-meaning friend who says ‘ two of these will get rid of that headache ’ or ‘ a dose of this will cure your constipation ’ . |
| 23 | None of this will affect you , anyway . |
| 24 | But none of this will help your daughter . |
| 25 | If members allowances are a hundred and eighty thousand this year which is somewhere around there , Mr may correct me but I think I 'm not too far out , we 've already upped those this year to a hundred and eighty- nine , so next year there 'll be a hundred and seventy-one and the thirteen thousand cost of this will reduce it to a hundred and fifty-eight I actually do n't think that is possible , we ca n't afford it within the terms of of the present set up , unless someone 's going to dramatically reduce the length and the number of meetings in this council , which I think is highly unlikely , I think we 've got to set a good example to our employees , I think that this would give completely the wrong message . |
| 26 | Even the least of these would give us vastly more sediment than we normally seem to find preserved for us in our stratigraphical record . |
| 27 | A small market town , a place by the river , a Suffolk village or a Spa , one of these would suit her , though it must not be too quiet , too isolated . |
| 28 | Some studies suggest that either of these might increase your risk of becoming ill . |
| 29 | Examination of these will show their strengths and areas where your school appears much stronger . |
| 30 | Any of these must give it as having a certain structure . |