Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spanish , Portuguese , Arabic and Japanese are the most useful languages , Sir Alfred says , because they ‘ have a wide catchment area containing many decision-makers who may not have a command of English ’ . |
| 2 | However , Mr Lamont , who may also make a cut in betting duty , is set to sanction the VAT registration of owners , enabling the recovery of VAT incurred on buying horses and on training fees . |
| 3 | delivery of care by multidisciplinary teams mean that the health-care professionals who may otherwise give a variety of types of health care to a client organise themselves into , and work as , a co-ordinated team . |
| 4 | However , there will be some circumstances where representations may have to made on behalf of individuals who enjoy income other than that arising from the Church , and who may therefore have a tax liability or indeed who may have tax repayment due to them . |
| 5 | The same applies to more distant relatives who may sometimes share a household . |
| 6 | The idea challenges scientists and non-scientists alike , including people who may never write a computer program in their lives , to come to terms with computers and understand what they are about |
| 7 | There are a lot of good people who may never enter a place of worship . |
| 8 | A foreman who spends most of his time riding herd on this week 's production quotas but who must also develop a program to deal with the labor requirements of next year 's retooling has a responsibility time span of a year or a little more . |
| 9 | Unlike today 's Leeds team who 'll never win a thing . |
| 10 | Those high failure rates make it an efficient way of screening out teenagers who might later fail a university course . |
| 11 | " What you need now is someone in the basement who might just leave a window open for you … " |
| 12 | Many of the latter were young , in their twenties , and included ‘ yuppies ’ in City and financial institutions who might not smoke a lot but took the attitude that they would smoke more at work if people pressured them over their habit . |
| 13 | He thinks there are some people around , some Poles , who might still have a grudge against Mills , and might be happy to see him murdered . ’ |
| 14 | Lisa still saw herself as a ‘ smoker ’ who was struggling to give up , rather than as a ‘ non-smoker ’ ( who might occasionally have a cigarette ) . |
| 15 | To prevent collusion between employer and employee , the local authority is not obliged to do this when the tied cottager is still employed by the farmer ( who could otherwise obtain a council house for the tenant by threatening to terminate his employment ) . |
| 16 | To my surprise this man who could not swim a stroke had covered a quarter of a mile towards Malta , judging by the fluorescine trail . ’ |
| 17 | He was popularly supposed to be a man who not only told the truth , but who could not tell a lie , and the senator 's aides and publicists were not unhappy to promulgate that echo of a previous President 's virtues . |
| 18 | And it all began in 1890 when a successful businessman , who could not dance a step , presented four ordinary little girls from Manchester in a pantomime at the Prince of Wales Theatre , Liverpool . |
| 19 | For those who could not afford a seaside holiday — and they were still many — excursions provided the escape . |
| 20 | In 1662 , after the restoration of the monarchy , a further law , the Act of Settlement , restricted the movement of those who were not freeholders or who could not afford a rent of £10 per year . |
| 21 | Unwin is describing a real difficulty for labouring poets who could not pursue a career without some form of patronage . |
| 22 | Both development officers continued to see all their workers once a week , either individually ( as in Ipswich , or in Newham for workers who could not attend a meeting ) or as a group . |
| 23 | A garrulous Welshman who could not see a beach without running along it . |
| 24 | The Press would never have been able to do its destructive job without the help of Labour figures who could n't pass a TV camera or journalist 's notebook without making a disloyal remark . |
| 25 | Ethel , who could n't tell a flat from a sharp , playing as if her fingers were croquet mallets . |
| 26 | Before you yawn , this really is a program with a difference — it 's aimed at people like me , who could n't draw a raffle . |
| 27 | Determined to be utterly independent of Bart , he slowly worked his way up , starting as a groom and finally getting his own yard , buying ponies cheap off the race track , or from other players who could n't get a tune out of them , making them , and selling them on , which he detested because he got so fond of them . |
| 28 | As he put it , ‘ I have to deal with guys on those committees who could n't get a security clearance for a job in a post office ’ . |
| 29 | Sunday night was usually jam session night at the Mimosa Club for assorted trad jazzmen who were n't in regular bands or who could n't get a gig in one of the big suburban pubs . |
| 30 | I 'm not 'aving my business ruined by a lot o' bleedin' idiots who could n't run a chip shop . ’ |