Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adv] [adv] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Will had disappeared from sight , Hari set to work on the slippers once more , they must be just so because Emily Grenfell was a good customer if a very exacting one . |
| 2 | The baby monkeys can take up to 18 months to mature and it could be that long before Hickery Holler is reintroduced to the group . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the effective transfer from $1 tax may be considerably less than $1 . |
| 4 | In any case , ‘ going concern ’ is interpreted in present auditing guidelines as meaning that the company will still be operating six months after the date of the audit report or one year after the date of the balance sheet , when that may be further ahead than company directors can see in the middle of a recession . |
| 5 | I think we 'd find Mr Churchill that it it 's rather more complex than that and and the requirements for delivering a nuclear weapon and you refer to the possibility of C A S O M being nuclear capable , one has to be fairly careful quite a , there 's a degree of difference between a missile needed to do the two jobs and I think it would be rather more than wiring which would be er at issue here , there 's the payload and all the rest of it which I suspect would cause very severe problems with that . |
| 6 | We thought the rail trunk haul would be rather less than £168 ’ , added Mr Gisby . |
| 7 | But I believe that for every £100 million spent on sewers , the present real cost to this nation of tax payers would be rather less than £50 million . |
| 8 | And it would be probably less than £500m which means less than £1 a week for the average family on income-related benefits . |
| 9 | This would be so even if accountants were able to agree that ‘ profit ’ is one certain figure which can be measured with precision . ’ |
| 10 | But this would be so only if trade between Member States was liable to be affected . |
| 11 | Allow , say , an hour at the scene , and with luck he would be home again before Nell woke and she need never know that he had been away . |
| 12 | It would be all right if God was there . |