Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [indef pn] [be] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had protested to Lord Wardley , who was chief billeting officer for that part of Northumberland , he had referred her to a minion who , in turn , had taken great pleasure in pointing out that she could , if she preferred , have some evacuees from Gateshead but , either way , her spare room could not remain empty when everyone was required to make a war effort . |
| 2 | In reply , Freud considers the rationalist argument that murder is not engaged in because it makes social life impossible if anyone is allowed to murder anyone else . |
| 3 | This might have been less dangerous had the Ottoman Empire held together , but it was crumbling fast and something was bound to take its place . |
| 4 | Enter by the porter 's lodge ; if no one is there go to the door in the first courtyard on the left and someone is bound to come to your aid . |
| 5 | Two days before last Q.T. Day the Society 's representatives had an interview with the Sports Council Grant Panel — the serious situation arising from that had been explained to all teachers present and everyone was asked to take a copy of the Development Plan to study . |
| 6 | There would be precious little searoom off the beaches in amphibious landings , and putting a 4,000 ton assault ship ashore was at one time thought so hazardous that none was expected to survive . |
| 7 | Matilda felt herself getting angrier … and angrier … and angrier … so unbearably angry that something was bound to explode inside her very soon . |
| 8 | It is essential that everyone is kept informed about what is involved and just how the new system will impact upon them . |
| 9 | While the Psalmi Davidis penitentiales were commissioned by Albrecht V , their textual expressiveness of the kind we have already noticed in Rore ( p. 2– ) is so intense that one is tempted to hear in them a note of personal anguish . |
| 10 | Some statements are so wild that no-one is expected to take them seriously ; these are sometimes referred to as salesman 's " puff " . |