Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the way in the main hall dominated by Renault and Peugeot/Citroen was Activa II , a big handsome XM coupe built just for show , but thought to be the type of car BMW should have built instead of the 850i . |
| 2 | If that nose had pleased the gods as it pleased Caesar and Antony , a loose Alexandrian gnosticism might have prevailed instead of the Christian discipline imposed by the two Romes , the old one on the Tiber , and the new one on the Bosporus . |
| 3 | Having collected his swimmer in phase one or two , the paddler now set course for the submarine rendezvous , beaming the infra-red light seawards in phase three and then , in phase four shorewards when the submarine might have passed inshore of the canoe . |
| 4 | You 'd get a case where there were two acting sergeants and one would want to get ahead of the other — he 'd run the other down to the inspector . |
| 5 | ‘ I make it quite clear anything I say I would have said regardless of the result of this present case , ’ he told the court . |
| 6 | As the deceased would have died regardless of the breach of duty , the breach was not a cause of his death . |
| 7 | Our marketing spend reflects our confidence that the brand will continue to grow ahead of the market . ’ |
| 8 | … The common ordinary mind is quite unfit to fix for itself what political question it shall attend to ; it is as much as it can do to judge decently of the questions which drift down to it , and are brought before it … |