Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [det] [noun] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of shareholders and directors of companies owning or operating such vessels may be so related . |
| 2 | Height corrections , for example : Aiming to hold your height within 100 ft the correction to gain or lose this amount would be a half-bar attitude change . |
| 3 | Making or adapting these materials can be a time-consuming business and the help of ancillary assistance can be welcome . |
| 4 | I think that to support this motion would be extremely unfortunate and would lead to potential disaster , not for the county council but indeed for the Highfields community . |
| 5 | Jiang responded by saying that in 1978 , Deng Xiaoping , then Vice-Premier , said that resolving this issue should be left to the wisdom of future generations . |
| 6 | These are the arctic fox and hen harrier assemblages , and there are three factors that suggest this deficit may be significant . |
| 7 | If demand is greater than expected more shares can be clawed back from allocations earmarked for institutional and overseas investors . |
| 8 | If demand is greater than expected more shares can be clawed back from allocations earmarked for institutional and overseas investors . |
| 9 | But for many booksellers and librarians the barricades of desks and tables of busily negotiating suits that fill most stands must be both forbidding and frustrating . |
| 10 | I hope that achieving that capacity will be one of the priorities of the new police committee . |
| 11 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 12 | Theories that inform these beliefs must be exposed and examined . |
| 13 | Alison says the National Health Service is woefully underfunded and thinks many people would be prepared to pay extra income tax if the money went to health care . |
| 14 | Florence further says that witnesses of the agreement later declared that Edmund left no portion of the kingdom to his brothers should he die , and agreed that Cnut should be the protector of his sons until they came of age . |
| 15 | Olga heard him singing in the bathroom and shouted that supper would be ready in a few minutes . |
| 16 | Such maintenance work has nothing to do with breakdown as defined ( see Policy Commentary ) and the cost of supplying and fitting such parts should be excluded . |
| 17 | Although it is not a matter for me , I would hope and expect that Parliament would be similarly sensitive to the need to refrain from trespassing upon the province of the courts . |
| 18 | This year Sun Express is buying products up front from the Sun satellites — and will offer its marketing services to them — and says all sales will be to end users this time around . |
| 19 | Although there is usually a link between time and resources , this is not always the case and adding more staff can be counterproductive at certain stages of a job . |
| 20 | This is the attitude you need , but you must be realistic and accept that scoring will be difficult . |
| 21 | He said that ‘ there is no essential difference between the language of prose and that of metrical composition ’ , and declared that poetry should be concerned ‘ with incidents of common life ’ . |
| 22 | I would go further and suggest these meetings should be open to ‘ all-comers ’ and should highlight a topic of local interest to attract potential recruits . |
| 23 | If apprehended all care should be taken when a |
| 24 | The take or place booking means that the client will be offered a room if there has been a ‘ no show ’ or cancellation , and failing that accommodation will be found for them at a comparable hotel , usually within the same chain of hotels . |
| 25 | the different functional activities and efforts required to make and sell each product can be coordinated and integrated by the divisional/product manager . |
| 26 | It is important to select a vet in whom you have confidence however , because if you are nervous and worried these sensations will be transmitted to the dog . |
| 27 | She , Cecilia , though a loving , kind and humble woman , touched no one if she could help it and thought this reserve might be connected with her never having been much for sex . |
| 28 | My region welcomes this and hopes this motion will be given due consideration . |
| 29 | In 1940 he wrote of an almost sanctified rural life as something vitally different from the separately developing urban culture which so disturbed him and pleaded that agriculture should be regarded as a vocation , rather than merely an industry , though he pointed out that such a view involved the whole orientation and scheme of values of a future society . |
| 30 | The Solid Fuel Advisory Service advises that whilst uncapping and unblocking both ends may be simple d-i-y jobs , most people would be better off asking a qualified sweep to have a look at the flue before any work is started — especially as it is good sense to have the chimney thoroughly swept before any work starts to remove soot or old bird 's nests . |