Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing happens and then the whole bloody thing is on top of you before you know it . |
| 2 | Moreover , the more accurately one measures the position , the shorter the wavelength of the light that one needs and hence the higher the energy of a single quantum . |
| 3 | For genotoxic chemicals , risk to the public would be calculated traditionally — that is , one assumes that even the smallest exposures pose risks of excess cancer , and that any increment of the chemical in an organism increases risk of cancer in a linear fashion . |
| 4 | In half a column in the Daily Telegraph he examined the plot and decorated his review with a reference to a Victorian poem but , although he called Mr Begley 's first novel ‘ extraordinary ’ ( which could mean almost anything : one hopes that both the best and the worst books in the world are ‘ extraordinary ’ ) , he made no comment on the worth of the later one . |
| 5 | One hopes that only the first group will inherit the earth . |