Example sentences of "[prep] course [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic . |
| 2 | So of course nobody can describe ‘ god ’ to you . |
| 3 | Of course something will have to be done . |
| 4 | Of course one may draw on the past as one will . |
| 5 | With this of course one may agree . |
| 6 | Of course one may have bad luck , and a less interesting route may be taken , and I fear that happened to her . |
| 7 | Of course one might argue that working-class women 's tendency to stay in education longer is itself a sign of their status consciousness . |
| 8 | But of course one can form one 's own relationship with one 's god or with mankind in general . |
| 9 | And of course one must keep one or two clean copies for an emergency . ’ |
| 10 | Of course one must put a lot of effort into marginal seats , but in the long term you must not forget the safe ones too . |
| 11 | If the roof blows off such a lavatory , of course one will expect to be annoyed . |
| 12 | Of course no-one can guarantee anything . |
| 13 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |
| 14 | Old Red being S.S.O. , and you 're being only a third-year , of course they 'll notice ! |
| 15 | The taxi-driver will probably remember picking you up , people on the train may have seen you … and of course they 'll question your friends . ’ |
| 16 | Erm some of the banks actually lay off the charges to some extent , but I think he might find that a bit expensive to run , erm and of course they 'll take their charges even if they do n't make a profit for you . |
| 17 | These villagers — of course they would make it their business to know anyone who was rich and whose father lived so near ! |
| 18 | Of course they would mourn for Renascia and remember all of the good things about it , only just now they had other things to concentrate on . |
| 19 | But now said that although he and Mary were already filling a second room with their bits of furniture and stuff , of course they would move it all out at once , if that room were needed by anyone to live in . |
| 20 | I think I would come down on voles really and they do actually dig a hole like that they go for erm small boulders and things like that in the garden or roots and they will send out clods as well cos they can uproot quite , quite a fair piece of er soil and of course they would eat berries as well , but again I 'm with Walter , I would like to see the end product . |
| 21 | Of course they would escape and of course they would outwit the Gruagach , thought Fenella , her mind tumbling with images , fighting to stay awake in case she could help Floy and Snodgrass . |
| 22 | ‘ Of course they would say that , would n't they ? |
| 23 | Sorry , my my my other point is about about Ryedale , and and and its its and its its unde its relationship to Southern Ryedale , and erm Mr Smith said that erm as far as Ryedale Council are concerned they ca n't identify any more land within Southern Ryedale , well of course they would say that because was there position at the Southern Ryedale plan , but the fact of the matter is that there was a great dispute at the York greenbelt Southern Ryedale plan enquiry , revol resolving around the issue of what were the bits of the greenbelt which made up the historic character and thereby what were you left with that potentially could be developed , albeit it might be reserved as white land in the first place , but could potentially be developed , and a great deal of this land on the disputed side lay in Southern Ryedale , that in that in fact there was a view around the table not only sh not only shared by by the developers side , but erm that large parts of Osbaldwick and Huntingdon did n't fall within the definition of greenbelt as as set out by by the County Council in their N Y Two Two document , now that matter clearly has got to be something left to the Inspector and the Greenbelt Inquiry , but I think it 's fair to point out that there is actually a difference of view , so it 's not an absolute position , that you ca n't identify more land within within Southern Ryedale , and indeed , erm , not that I want to raise the Local Government Commission 's head again , but of course the Local Government Commission is proposing that York be a unitary authority expanded , and once Yor , if York does become a unitary authority expanded then some of these areas will fall within their area , and they may have a different view than er the Ryedale current Ryedale district council does , and therefore I think it is a little unsafe to take just at pure se pure face value , that there is no more land within Southern Ryedale that could be developed . |
| 24 | Of course they would escape and of course they would outwit the Gruagach , thought Fenella , her mind tumbling with images , fighting to stay awake in case she could help Floy and Snodgrass . |
| 25 | Of course they would escape and they would rescue Nuadu . |
| 26 | They might well have done of course they might have refused it 's the B B C they say you ca n't have a bottle |
| 27 | Mr Deputy Speaker that 's exactly what the authorities are asked to make sure about and of course they must have sensible plans so that there are always beds and facilities for those who need them , but in a way it 's a success of care in the community that that more elderly people are being looked after in their own homes and so we 've arrested the very rapid growth in permanent residential places which was occurring before the policy was introduced er , as we now see , despite some gloomy forewarning , local authorities have in general managed well in the first year of their responsibilities , they 've examined thousands of cases and many people have been helped to make decisions about their own futures . |
| 28 | Of course they will go through all the natural stages of refusal to believe what they have been told , of anger and of unhappiness . |
| 29 | And of course they will suffer consequences — at the very least those of wasted time and lost opportunities . |
| 30 | And of course they will suffer consequences — at the very least those of wasted time and lost opportunities . |