Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [modal v] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 2 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 3 | Substances which are required nutrients , micro-nutrients , copper and zinc are required as micro-nutrients by plant cells for example , would show distributions like this de decreased levels in surface waters where er in the photic zone biological activity is high they 'll be continually stripped out of the water column there in the concentrations then increase as biological activity decreases and then becomes constant with depth . |
| 4 | and if they think I 'm taking part in another they must be absolutely joking |
| 5 | No drain should pass under a building , but where this is unavoidable it must be specially protected by encasing in concrete and supported against settlement where it passes through a wall or foundation . |
| 6 | As such it must be resolutely resisted . |
| 7 | The imponderables of the race make it what it is , a graveyard for favourites for a start , and if Old Applejack goes to the line at 50–1 it can be persuasively argued that he is a better bet than Cool Ground at 6–1 . |
| 8 | He says there 's a Hovercraft every hour from Calais , so if we 're lucky we could be there to meet her . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What makes you so sure you 'll be here to attend to it ? ’ she almost shouted . |
| 10 | Okay it 's not going through Hertfordshire but if they 've got half a billion to spend , I am sure it would be better spent , public transport is only one way . |
| 11 | If you buy a metal arch , look for one that is sturdy , with joints with do n't pull apart easily , and make sure it can be well anchored into the ground . |
| 12 | Aches and pains of various kinds may occur , some of which may mimic the symptoms of her husband 's last illness , and her general health may deteriorate , because at first she will be so absorbed in grieving and a kind of mental ‘ searching ’ for what she has lost that she may tend to neglect her bodily needs . |
| 13 | At first he will be greatly praised by his people , before sinking down into the dark pit of sin and pride . |
| 14 | Thus co-ordination is , in a sense , virtually always a derived relation or " para-relation " in that it can be theoretically discarded , provided only that one accepts multiple operation of the other relations . |
| 15 | However , if your company requires that all its slides are set in Univers or Franklin Gothic you 'll be hard pushed to find a film recorder that will oblige . |
| 16 | ‘ How wonderful it must be never to doubt yourself ! ’ she jeered and turned her back on him , fixing her hair into a loose plait with hands that held a faint tremble . |
| 17 | When posts fall vacant they should be widely advertised within the branch by word of mouth and through the branch newsletter . |
| 18 | At best it will be severely prodded and nipped . |