Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the idea was broached I had told Ira Dilworth that I would sooner resign than transfer to Toronto and he agreed entirely . |
| 2 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 3 | Although she 'd only fuss if she were . |
| 4 | Mary herself was quite keen , stipulating though that she would only stay if Rufus did not . |
| 5 | So profuse are the flowers , so many the farms and plantations of banana , coconut , fruit and vegetables around the middle of the city that you would sometimes wonder if you were in a park or a great tropical garden . |
| 6 | This is probably a good idea , but it means that you may never know if the food you avoided was indeed the guilty party , because the child is likely to have outgrown the sensitivity by the time the food is eaten again . |
| 7 | Your care will mean that you 'll probably know if anything untoward is happening and you 'll be able to deal with any problems early on . |
| 8 | Any or all of these factors may encourage you to seek to negotiate a settlement which entitles you to speedy payment of a lump sum and perhaps other benefits , even if the value of the total package is less than the amount that you might theoretically win if you sued and all went well . |
| 9 | If you do not want me to cons y'know if you put , this is a load of effing sh or whatever and then suddenly you suddenly realise that you might actually pass so you then I mean cross it out , I 'll pretend it 's not there , ok ? |
| 10 | Occasionally occupying a perch not a million miles from The Black Crowes and unafraid to cross the bridge from ‘ metal ’ to ‘ mayhem ’ , Newspeak are creating a fusion nicked from the frankly , ‘ heavier ’ stalls of the pop market and the kind of tunes that you could probably whistle if your eardrums had n't just been blown away . |
| 11 | Then the fore and hind wings , bending under the additional stress of the turn , beat against one another making an audible rattle that you can easily hear as you sit watching them make their circuits over a pond . |
| 12 | One 's called the Austin Special , and it 's really cool-looking with three hotted-up Danelectro-style lipstick tube pickups that you can either run as single-coils for that crinkly kind of clarity , or put them together for a humbucking sound . |
| 13 | One big advantage of using Creation 6 for Deco card designing is that you can always check whether the pattern will repeat both side to side and vertically , very easily . |
| 14 | I pray that you will never rest while I 'm alive . |
| 15 | Erm i it was strange I know , I ca n't explain it logically , it was just we we certainly we felt in the office that we would somehow know if and when it was gon na happen . |
| 16 | One problem that we must also leave until the next chapter is the fact that there are many cases of English words with alternative possible stress patterns ( e.g. ‘ controversy ’ , either or ) . |
| 17 | The idea of any form of prehistoric human beings having a civilization that we could reasonably described as ‘ advanced ’ seems to be a contradiction in terms . |
| 18 | Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid . |
| 19 | Although we 're working er all the time to keep security as tight as we can at the John Radcliffe , er the scheme is going to give us the ability to challenge members of staff , legitimate members of staff , as we currently do , er and they will then have to provide , produce the card , er so we can then assess whether they are or are not a member of staff . |
| 20 | Obviously he did not make himself known so we can only speculate as to who he was watching , but we are all hoping that Trevor Proby will soon get the call . |
| 21 | I told Harry that I did n't really see how this could be resolved in your absence so we should just leave until you return from holiday . |
| 22 | On the " supply " side the parties will always be tempted to bribe the electorate and promise more than they can safely deliver after the votes are in the bag . |
| 23 | He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place . |
| 24 | The man that was on the mower , they had an eye to that they would just wait until it was off the the Where it was cut you see ? |
| 25 | Some were constructed so that they would only move when a passing person activated a treadle of some sort so that the toy would suddenly spring into ‘ life ’ . |
| 26 | Doctors do not kill handicapped babies ; they allow them to die , implying that they would naturally die if left alone . |
| 27 | There 's a lot of emphasis these days about individuals growing as individuals , but are you really saying that because women are obviously individuals they ought to be given the opportunity of growing in a way that they could only do if they had jobs ? |
| 28 | You found them everywhere and in the sun all of them were beginning to be too big for their blue jeans and jackets that they could never fill when they were on the bum and hungry . |
| 29 | All legal restraints have been lifted so that they can now do as they will . |
| 30 | It maintains that they can only benefit if it secures the return to Turkey of the so-called Lydian hoard : Lydian , Archaemenid Persian and other Anatolian artefacts dating back to 600–500 BC which , it contends , were looted in 1960–66 from tombs in the Ushak region of Turkey . |