Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 With differing or conflicting values they would often be pulling in different directions and pursuing incompatible goals .
2 Seven or eight miles I should think .
3 When applied to particular urban or rural situations it will reveal the dynamics which , while attracting some into the fellowship of the churches , are at the same time excluding others .
4 By choosing a career in advertising or public relations you will be in this complex and exciting business of communication .
5 In either advertising or public relations you will work for many clients with a multitude of problems and try to offer them solutions .
6 Y'know kind of kind of comments or playful thoughts you might pass about somebody but you you try not to do it seriously as it were , you try not to let it affect your behaviour towards them , you try to not be surprised if they disclose they 're gay or heterosexual or whatever so er
7 Cor , there was boxes of brand new tools come down there , spanners , and they used to be the , like these , like a big chopper , well they used to have couple of all with erm breezed up with erm like greaseproof paper over 'em , bag 'em up into the holds , guns , there was guns , what done with the guns they hit the er , just near the barrel or the trigger , th they used to flatten them out so they could n't use 'em but they all went in the ships bombs , or little shells they used to find in there , all scrap iron .
8 If I do that two or three times I can make about half the cost of the room per day at the hotel — honestly . ’
9 If you listen carefully , over two or three interviews you may build up an understanding of the themes and patterns of what the person is trying to say , through watching out for repetition .
10 It is a valuable piece of equipment , and my hon. Friend may like to know that in the next two or three years we shall proceed with some large modifications to it which we estimate will bring about £4 million worth of work to PBN on the Isle of Wight .
11 Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency .
12 ‘ If we did n't shoot them , ’ he says , ‘ then within two or three years they would be so out of hand that we 'd have to give up sheep farming . ’
13 In two or three years it could be , believes Farr-Jones .
14 If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’
15 Course saying in another two or three weeks I 'll maybe not .
16 Lead or soft metals you can hammer them into shape .
17 Since cultures are unlikely to be maintained for more than 4 or 5 days they can generally be kept free of bacterial contamination by conducting all manipulations in sterile media with flame-pulled glass mouth pipettes under dissecting microscopes in a dust-free area , for example surrounded by Perspex dust covers .
18 If the mail message consists of two or more pages you should TAB through each of its pages .
19 So erm so give it a go anyway and see what happens erm and it 's no great hardship to have to y'know kind of do it in two or more sets I would n't have thought y'know it 'll it 'll probably still work .
20 However , there two or more things you can be sure of : clean , safe surroundings and a warm Canadian welcome .
21 If we are of a lazier disposition , the solution is simple and usually quite acceptable : if the same note will occur in two or more parts it can be omitted where it is least necessary and retained only in the principal part ( thus in Example 140 we would keep the E♭ only in the upper voice , to retain the melodic shape ) .
22 If the AEC had made no difference to the male participants with five or more preconvictions we would expect over half of them to have been reconvicted .
23 If you scored two or more points you should , if you have not already , see your doctor and get further advice from him or her about what you should do to reduce your heart disease and stroke risk .
24 After it has killed one or more rabbits it will have to come to terms with its duties and thereafter it is fitted with a muzzle .
25 Will you ever be asked to do something you do n't believe in like advertising cigarettes , animal fur fashions , the political party you do n't like , or processed foods you ca n't abide ?
26 If the function of the leave requirement is to weed out unarguable or vexatious cases it might be expected that only a small proportion of cases would fail at this stage .
27 I say thirty , we 've had that either eight or nine years I ca n't re I ca n't remember which , that 's cost us thirty five quid in eight or nine years
28 The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself .
29 Oh maybe a matter of four or five hours we 'd take here .
30 Rather than complete or approximate matches you can also specify conditions using the arithmetic operators = < > and so on .
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