Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I must in all honesty say says Howard very quickly , jutting his chin out and smilingly blinking his eyes , ‘ that I still think there are a number of things in the universe which really need seriously looking into . ’ |
| 2 | The Crown must in any event pay to the defendant his costs of the appeal to the Board . |
| 3 | But scientists and lay practitioners alike must recognise that the terms and concepts used in alternative systems of medicine may have no exact equivalent in Western medicine , and must to some extent be-seen as metaphors ; and that standard ways of assessing therapy , notably by the double-blind controlled trial , may simply not be applicable to many alternative systems . |
| 4 | However , I must at this stage part from Amendment eleven on the method of their selection for two reasons . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe so , yet any man must at some point question whether it is chance or fate that brings things to pass ; whether he is the author or merely the agent of his actions . ’ |
| 6 | So far from being , as you might at first glance suspect , a wanton display of Milton 's monstrous learning , it 's a piece of triumphant relevance . |
| 7 | The wife had then deserted the husband and was temporarily wrongfully away from home ; but she might at any time return . |
| 8 | The stone buildings surrounding it seemed less solid in the moonlight , as if they might at any moment shimmer and disappear . |
| 9 | The light was spreading fast and if they were asleep in one of the rock shelters they might at any moment wake and stumble on Marian . |
| 10 | He observed people closely , as was only natural for a painter , and he was already watching Mauve , the friendly mentor who might at any moment turn into an enemy . |
| 11 | The bars of Victoria 's cot were black and menacing and the line of light under the door from the landing was a brilliant pencil which might at any moment rear up and scrawl ‘ She is not normall ’ lambently on the wall . |
| 12 | Mrs Henry found out all she could about alternative cancer treatments and dabbled in some of them . |
| 13 | He was an exception among the British dancers in wanting to find our as much as he could about American ballet teachers . |
| 14 | The trustee could with good reason contest the beneficiary 's claim , and might stand a chance of success . |
| 15 | Bureaucratic measures could to some extent control behaviour which did not conform to pre-defied socialist standards . |
| 16 | In the words of professor John Honnold : A further factor is that States feel more relaxed about harmonizing measures which do not threaten ( even though they may in some degree influence ) long-established concepts and traditions of their own legal systems governing domestic transactions . |
| 17 | Although we may in this way gain in explanatory capacity , there are several important disadvantages associated with a participant observation study . |
| 18 | Any hazard may to some degree present a risk to the health and safety of people , the environment or the activity ( see Figure 2 ) . |
| 19 | ( a ) First mortgage only The court may order that : The Respondent shall as beneficial owner transfer to the Petitioner absolutely within 28 days from the date of this Order the property at 1 Blackacre Drive , Blackacre , subject to the existing mortgage in favour of the Blackacre Building Society . |
| 20 | If you asked Professor Cizek how he got his results , he would in all probability reply — " I just encourage the children to express themselves freely and only stop bad things from originating . " |
| 21 | Despite the linguistic anomaly that the season called ‘ the time of inundation ’ would in due course fall in one of the other seasons , the Egyptians retained the 365-day calendar right down to the Roman period because of its convenience as an automatic record of the passage of time in an era , each year containing the same number of days , unlike our years . |
| 22 | Yet even the foreign secretary conceded that economic difficulties would in due course force a reappraisal of Britain 's military commitments within Nato . |
| 23 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 24 | In addition to the reduced Sports Council grant we have now been informed that facilities we have been able to use free of charge for QT Days would in future cost £210 for six hours , the maximum permissible time . |
| 25 | The over-simple assumptions widespread in the early 1980s that controlling the supply of money would in some way affect inflation ( the removal of which would introduce a period of substantial growth ) must be considered as being unsound . |
| 26 | I think it it it 's been suggested that er in s in some way that the employment aspect of the new settlement w would in some way prejudice erm regional objectors in in terms of Leeds regardment and I really just wanted to flag up that that I ca n't accept that , given the scale of development that that 's proposed . |
| 27 | The Inland Revenue consultative document ‘ A Simpler System for Taxing the Self Employed ’ contains proposals which , if implemented , would in any event result in an acceleration of the tax liability for partnership . |
| 28 | and what I concern myself with now is that this sort of thing is becoming too obvious in the area , this kind of development , this kind of an infringement in villages , looking for , somebody 's got to make a stand against it , er and I hope that we shall in this Parish Council |
| 29 | As this is a compact bush tomato there is no need to pinch out the side-shoots as you would on standard tomato varieties . |
| 30 | Most of a canal 's metalwork would at some stage pass through the blacksmith 's forge . |