Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [modal v] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full employment was a desirable goal , but if the price of full employment was State restriction on the freedom of businessmen to order their own affairs , then that freedom must take priority even if mass unemployment was the result . |
| 2 | Khruschev 's boasts in the late 1950s , that Communism would outstrip capitalism by the 1980s , had proved as empty as his threats over Berlin . |
| 3 | Here , butt joints are perfectly acceptable , or you can use a simple housing or half-housing joint ( not forgetting that hardwood will need pilot holes for both screws and nails ) . |
| 4 | Mr Hooke says after talking to trade journalists at the Paris Air Show , he is more convinced than ever that Raytheon will move production of the 125 to America . |
| 5 | Although that elite might hear advice from vigorous and tactful committee chairmen , and had personal informal contacts in the districts , it remaining the final and authoritative decision-making body . |
| 6 | Any move in that direction may raise resistance in BCM circles and exacerbate misgivings about the MDM 's ‘ flirtations ’ with bantustan leaders like General Bantu Holomisa of the Transkei and Mr Enos Mabuza of KaNgwane . |
| 7 | Parliament crossed him , always with the greatest respect but implacably , criticised his use of the council to levy an aid for the marriage of his elder daughter without consulting them , doubted if there was a precedent recent enough to justify the aid , and periodically and obstinately restated to him the principle that the king should live ‘ of his own ’ , without demanding that parliament should raise money by taxes for his expenses . |
| 8 | Sometimes insurers might feel that they can get a better deal at the doors of the court in a heavy case , and the identity of the judge allotted to that case can influence corridor negotiations pretty heavily , but an experienced plaintiff 's solicitor with nothing much to worry about in court who has gone that far will strike a fairly hard bargain . |
| 9 | Small schemes were created in the 1970s as a result of an Inland Revenue concession but once these government proposals are enacted that concession will become history . |
| 10 | She must have known that an action of that kind would cause trouble . |
| 11 | Words we might employ to describe that experience would include authenticity , first-handedness , liveliness and immediacy . |
| 12 | Each pond will have shelving for marginal plants and will have a Butyl lining . |
| 13 | What we 're really asking voters to do is ask searching questions of their candidates to really find out how they feel and how they personally feel about the environment and how that spin-off would become part of their council thinking . |
| 14 | This happened to be the very moment when I dropped the punt-pole into the water , the idea being that Dennis could grab hold of it and I would then pull him in . |
| 15 | They are convinced that religion must make sense to believer and unbeliever alike . |
| 16 | The pigments which optically separate one ommatidium from another are withdrawn at night so that each rhabdom can receive light from many facets . |
| 17 | Death must be thought about and with that thinking must come triumph over it . |
| 18 | Each cell would have row number and seat number and so be uniquely identified . |
| 19 | There is concern , too , that Labour might raise interest rates to protect the pound , leaving speculators vulnerable to a sudden surge in demand for sterling . |
| 20 | In language which sounded convincingly like a social democrat 's , he indicated that Labour would concentrate investment on the new commanding heights of the modern economy — education and training — and on technical research and the transport system . |
| 21 | Yet , the institution of the industrial co-operative commonwealth required that labour should take control of the means of production ; and for Owen , for whom the violence and destruction such as had attended the French Revolution were calamitous , the change to control by labour must happen peacefully . |
| 22 | This change might cause synthesis of a protein with normal CFTR function , together with a non-functioning protein . |
| 23 | He said last night : ‘ This change will take effect tomorrow . ’ |
| 24 | This computer will include information gathered by area constables whose job is to : ‘ secure the service of at least one observer in every street , not a paid professional informant , but someone who knows the inhabitants and is inquisitive enough to find out what is going on and will pass on information . ’ |
| 25 | This user must have LIFESPAN Quality Assurer privilege , and can not be yourself . |
| 26 | The economic and constitutional rights of the republics , at the same time , should be increased and defined more precisely ; but any changes of this kind must take account of the fact that each of the republics was itself a multinational state in which the interests of all national groups must be properly respected . |
| 27 | A mask of this kind will cause activation of detectors at the feature , letter and word levels . |
| 28 | Not really , they 've put in their treaty that er Berlin is the capital of the United Germany , but that the seat of government will be chosen by the newly elected all-German parliament , which has got to be chosen early in December , and they could still say ‘ well we have the capital in Berlin , but the seat of the government will remain in Bonn , and up in Berlin the president will have his office and some meetings will take place , but the ministries and foreign embassies and so on , and all the traffic jams that go with that , can jolly well stay in Bonn ’ . |
| 29 | This is specifically provided for in s1(1) of CPA 1987 which states : ( 1 ) This Part shall have effect for the purpose of making such provision as is necessary in order to comply with the product liability Directive and shall be construed accordingly . |
| 30 | This technique would save storage space , outlines take a fraction of the memory compared to the bitmaps they produce , and would allow fonts to be scaled to any size on demand . |