Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might get work in , like construction work and the making of roads and that kind of thing … but how long would that last for and we 'd be left with what , like you do n't know what you would be left with in the end , ’ said Mary Catherine , who concluded ‘ I 'm not one to stop progress by any manner of means but I do n't think gold mining is progress . |
| 2 | Warnock 's error is to have neglected the necessity , in any account of seeing , of the subject 's capability of noticing what it can be said to perceive . |
| 3 | ‘ A European ’ , Temple wrote , ‘ can not exert a personal influence on the characters of more than one hundred to two hundred natives ’ ; but if he concentrated on ‘ guiding and controlling the native leaders ’ , then his influence would be ‘ magnified by a natural process a thousand fold ’ and the result would be that : ‘ The power thus exerted is infinitely greater in scope than any power or influence which it can be hoped that he will exert under the … system of Direct Rule . ’ |
| 4 | This leaflet is designed to help you understand what you can be asked to pay and when . |
| 5 | Not immediately , for to do what he would be moved to do if more aware , without trying to become more aware , would be a direct defiance of the imperative . |
| 6 | ‘ I know how much we have already put in up to the end of 1992 and I know what we could be asked for for 1993 , ’ Longuet said , but the size of the sums is to embarrassing for him to reveal them — but he did say they were incompatible with what the European Commission would allow and what French taxpayers wanted . |
| 7 | The shares are redeemable , at the instigation of Dawson International PLC , in whole on or after 15th January 1994 at their issue price or in certain circumstances upon earlier revocation of the guarantee at prices declining from 105 per cent to 100 per cent thereof failing which they will be redeemed on 15th January 2004 . |
| 8 | Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status . |
| 9 | But I knew what I 'd be confronted with at the hospital — my mother speechless and locked in a paralysed body . |
| 10 | ‘ They were n't interested because they realised what they would be expected to do , ’ says Jim Devine . |
| 11 | For instance , a particular type of aircraft with specified engines in established weather conditions will , at a known weight , accelerate to the appropriate speed for take-off in a predetermined distance along the runway , following which it will be accelerated to a specified speed and achieve a pre-established rate of climb during which the landing gear will be retracted , taking a known period of time . |
| 12 | If the criterion of relevance is adhered to the research worker knows why information is being collected because he knows what it will be used for . |