Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [noun prp] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mental torture of that for Charlie would have been tremendous . |
| 2 | I 'll do my best … but tomorrow half of England will think I have got it wrong . |
| 3 | What did he mean when he said half of England will think he got it wrong ? |
| 4 | When you have taken all this in NewsQuest will test your knowledge . |
| 5 | By the second half of the fourteenth century , few in France could claim not to be involved in it in one way or another . |
| 6 | For the party leaderships , of course , it is important to get representation across the board , so a Democrat Representative from a large State such as California may find that the Agriculture Committee contains sufficient California Democrats already , and he/she may then be allocated to the committee concerned with the work of the Department of the Interior instead . |
| 7 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |
| 8 | One might think that radical behaviourists such as Skinner would advocate the classification of stimuli along purely physical dimensions . |
| 9 | This means being able to take images received from a Macintosh and save them in a format known as PCX which programs such as CorelDRAW can import . |
| 10 | Standards from groups such as OMG will ensure that various object technologies , including whatever DSOM evolves into , Taligent , Sun 's DOE and HP 's DOMF , share much common ground . |
| 11 | Tournaments such as Wimbledon may boast larger fields , but for some it is too costly , or inconvenient because of extensive queuing , or the possibility of play being scratched due to rain . |
| 12 | Bateson recommended , for example , that the sources of modern poets such as Auden should have the same scholarly apparatus applied to them as used for ( say ) Spencer , so long as Auden 's sources were investigated " with at , least as much thoroughness and intelligence as Spencer 's receive . " |
| 13 | Systems such as PREPLAN can provide the user with sound models of the behaviour patterns of fire and are therefore of enormous value in land-use planning . |
| 14 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
| 15 | Galileo could not believe that a genius such as Archimedes would have used such a crude method . |
| 16 | The growth of the middle class in industrialising countries such as India could play an important role here . |
| 17 | Alternatively , countries such as Britain could provide space hardware or equipment for ground stations . |
| 18 | It is vital the that non-Proliferation treaty , which lapses in 1995 , is renewed , and the nuclear weapons states such as Britain must play their part . |
| 19 | Mentally disordered offenders who have been admitted to ordinary hospitals from the courts , or from prison , or from the Special Hospitals such as Broadmoor may require such a period of care in conditions of medium security . |
| 20 | It would mean that British Gas would put a mileage rate on the transportation of gas so that regions such as Wales will suffer from higher gas prices , which will offset anything that we may do to achieve efficiency . |
| 21 | The speed at which direct marketers such as Dell can move is unparalleled , thanks to their knowledge of the customers ' wants and needs , and has resulted in the development of a whole class of computer-literate users . |
| 22 | A man such as Niccolò can find himself lonely . |
| 23 | Kimberella may be a cubozoan , represented today by the venomous box-jellies , whereas forms such as Ovatoscutum may represent the floats of hydrozoans , as in the present-day Portuguese man-of-war . |
| 24 | Ex-soldiers such as Mike would travel from one army to the other , hoping to be in the right army at the right time . |
| 25 | Half the Dale believes him to be some sort of wizard out of the western mountains , and folk such as Bragad will use the rumours . |
| 26 | Article 6 provides that a contracting state such as Libya must take suspects into custody or take other measures to ensure their presence ‘ as provided in the domestic law of that state ’ — as Libya has done . |
| 27 | It might be supposed that the loss of his ships , with Grágás his flagship among them , was the greatest single blow that a sea-lord such as Thorfinn might receive . |
| 28 | Much of China will experience a drier climate . |
| 29 | The extension of Soviet control over all of Korea would enhance the political and strategic position of the Soviet Union with respect to both China and Japan , and adversely affect the position of the US in those areas and throughout the Far East . |
| 30 | It is probably fair to say that very few hotels in all of Italy can pride themselves on such an enviable position as the Hotel Italia . |