Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft cuttings may root after only a few weeks , so pot individual cuttings as soon as you see new young leaves or white roots at the base of containers . |
| 2 | On lifting financial sanctions , including allowing access to IMF and World Bank assistance , the communiqué said that such sanctions should remain until either a new democratic constitution had been agreed or until there was agreement to lift them " at South Africa 's all-party conference or by an interim government " . |
| 3 | It is surely fitting that this should happen since nearly every member of the congregation contributed in some way to the result . |
| 4 | They must get as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in . |
| 5 | The 1961 Party Programme , still valid on Gorbachev 's accession , provided that this process should continue until ultimately the ‘ complete unity ’ of the Soviet people was achieved . |
| 6 | It may look like just a muddy old pond , but as Sir David Attenborough explains to these schoolchildren , it 's teeming with life . |
| 7 | That is in stark contrast to what would happen if ever the Labour party came to power , with its plans to reduce our spending on equipment by many billions of pounds . |
| 8 | From the point of view of its spatial support , we can understand as well the use of the to infinitive as what Jespersen calls the " infinitive of specification " ( 1940 : 262ff ) . |
| 9 | The need for government controls to prevent the marketing of dangerous medicines is obvious — the example of thalidomide indicates what can happen when inadvertently a dangerous drug gets through the net . |