Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such findings should perhaps not come as too great a surprise . |
| 2 | The rule against recovery should not however apply where a tax is exacted , not under unconstitutional legislation , but through a misapplication of the law . |
| 3 | Users of the 1991 census should nevertheless carefully consider whether crude population totals are the most suitable base for measuring penetration . |
| 4 | ‘ It is wrong to assume that the woman must show signs of injury or that she must always physically resist before there can be a conviction for rape . |
| 5 | So I did something you should n't really do after a bird has completed a successful free flight : I put her back on the creance . |
| 6 | A majority of the Committee now takes the view that the exemption should no longer apply where the couple are living separately but should be retained where they are cohabiting . |
| 7 | There is much to be said for the inclusion of a procedure for suspending with immediate effect a partner whose conduct has given ground for expulsion ( Clause 19.02 ) when the surrounding circumstances may not immediately indicate whether it would be in the interests of the firm that the power to expel should in fact be exercised . |
| 8 | You 'll perhaps only say if you put out a thousand pounds , you 'll possibly get what three hundred pounds back or something like that ? |
| 9 | In this case , instead of accepting that comprehensible input is indeed validly conceived as ‘ The ‘ Fundamental Pedagogical Principle ’ ’ and then looking at how it might be achieved by interaction , one might more profitably ask whether these strategies of interaction on the part of the learner do not suggest that the notion of comprehensible input is inadequate for explaining how language is learned , and therefore is not so very fundamental after all . |
| 10 | A management/arcade hybrid such as this could only really work if both sections are of a reasonably high standard . |
| 11 | So far did the experience lie beyond the normal province of time , she could not later tell whether it lasted for moments only or extended into hours . |
| 12 | She could n't speak , could not even think while his thumb was brushing back and forth across her mouth like that . |
| 13 | The tour , originally scheduled to leave at 9.30 a.m. , could not now leave until well after a buffet lunch , if this latter could he arranged by the kitchen staff ( the Manager nodded ) . |
| 14 | There was n't earth behind , but another stone , a bigger one , chalk , and I could n't even find where its edge was . |
| 15 | And er the diesel pumps were n't on and er there was a couple of guys putting on breathing apparatus and trying to get in to restart them , but I mean by this stage the smoke was so thick they could n't even find where the pumps were . |
| 16 | The truth is that I could no longer tell whether I was cold or not , hungry or not . |
| 17 | The team would do what the individual could no longer do because the organisation was becoming too large and/or complex . |
| 18 | One major contribution , if not the most important , was the growing disagreement which raged around the loose Elizabethan compromises of religious conscience , which could no longer work when the personalities involved changed . |
| 19 | With a single currency in place , that could no more happen than the Government of the United Kingdom could today allow Wales or Scotland to go off and fight a war of its own . |
| 20 | I could actually tomorrow to see if it 's in the library could n't I ? |
| 21 | These time limits are extremely important , because if the planning permission lapses there is no certainty that it will be re-granted , and going to appeal may well not help if the Secretary of State believes that the original consent should not have been granted . |
| 22 | He then states that he would rather not exist than live to have to serve and be in awe of a man no better than himself . |
| 23 | What I would most strongly suggest as the conditioning factor is the people you have to work with . |
| 24 | As the Japanese are at present constituted , accidents to life and limb would most certainly occur if trains made but a brief halt to entrain passengers . |
| 25 | ‘ Again , your view would only really hold if the cab driver were not an accomplice . ’ |
| 26 | At parties he would just quietly leave when nobody was watching him , so that only much later would anybody wonder where he was . |
| 27 | In the example just given , if the Maoris remained away without exercising their rights continuously for one generation , their claims would not be materially affected , but absence for two generations would seriously weaken the claims and render them subject to some recognition by the tribe ; they would not entirely cease until after an absence of three generations … |
| 28 | In the wild such behaviour would normally never occur because of the large size of each adult cat 's territory . |
| 29 | She appealed unashamedly to her English readers for money for the foreign artists : ‘ If anyone likes to send some money , I will promise to dispense it with the most rigid favouritism towards people who would probably sooner beg than risk the jaundice of a free meal and would sooner have a note of twenty francs all at once than beg every day . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ My husband to retire … but I would probably just die if I ever did ! ’ |