Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many facts about the remote past and the remote future which we shall have no means ever of recognizing or verifying . |
| 2 | But having weighed up the two options , at the end of the article , he concluded : ' … in every language it turns out that almost all the results lie within a relatively short stretch which we may call the sentence … |
| 3 | However , in England the principle has been inflated into a much more extreme dogma which we may call the ‘ extravagant version ’ of the doctrine . |
| 4 | One or two of the items of growth particularly have been er identified as illustrative which may mean that you can choose er almost any amount you like er to be spent on those particular items just identify er a figure which you may consider the starting point . |
| 5 | And then of course there was a erm also the scrubbing board , which was a corrugated board which you used to rub the clothes on like that . |
| 6 | grant him every advantage which we can conceive a white to possess over the native ; concede that in the struggle for existence his chance of a long life will be much superior to that of the native chiefs ; yet from all these admissions , there does not follow the conclusion that , after a limited or unlimited number of generations , the inhabitants of the island will be white . |
| 7 | The attitude of a lorry driver which you can have a look at . |
| 8 | She thought even of a proposal which she could have the pleasure of turning down . |
| 9 | This may be also a question which you will say the districts are in a better position to answer and maybe they should be forewarned that if you say that , they will be asked that question . |
| 10 | The plaintiffs then had a new point which I may call the waiver argument , the basic principle of which is stated in Wigmore on Evidence , 8th ed. ( 1961 ) , pp. 453–455 , para. 2275 : |
| 11 | And and I think that 's why this particular policy is very important to the Selby district because it allows us to address the balance between meeting what I would call the justifiable development but also the equally important environmental consideration . |
| 12 | Northampton came close to winning the game in the last five minutes when Walden drove a fierce shot against the crossbar , ‘ making a mark which it will take a paintbrush to efface ’ . |
| 13 | Another recipe relied on lily of the valley , lard and a cup of old wine , which you were advised to ‘ pound together in the manner which thou mightest work a plaister , and lay to the hand ’ . |
| 14 | Lobbying workshops would be that combined , erm there is er , a one page journalist leaflet which we can order a pound for a hundred , that 's it , that 's all our journalist friends . |
| 15 | Another piece of equipment I use is my boots , my shoes , my trousers , my clever truncheon pocket , it 's a long thin pocket which I can put the truncheon in and it hides away . |
| 16 | erm local government , and I regret this , is probably going that way in that the demands upon Councillors are getting more and more , and for various reasons it is getting more and more difficult to find now in local government what I would call the amateur who who I think predominated in it , certainly outside the cities , up to nineteen seventy four . |
| 17 | Local man Paul McAllister heard the screams and raced to the scene with a ladder which he used to reach a bedroom window . |
| 18 | The time that this occupies may be influenced by a property which I shall call the ‘ stickiness ’ of the old mould . |
| 19 | Into sales from being what I would call an artisan and er I do n't know what you would call yourself , but somebody who does things erm er on a er manual stroke artisan type work , over to sales . |
| 20 | When you walked into the well what I would call a cupboard but they classed it as the bathroom . |
| 21 | They earn in a year what he 'd pay a French worker in a month . |
| 22 | The romance of ardent feeling and eager endeavour never becomes cloying or sentimental because it is sustained by , included in , that movement in space and time which we can call the action of a story . |
| 23 | ‘ The threat ’ has become , in Soviet parlance , ‘ well known ’ , and well stereotyped : on their side , an economy locked into a scale and a tempo of war production which we may lack the will or wherewithal to match ; on our side , a technological edge eroding under pressure of rising capital costs and determined Soviet effort ; and finally , the forfeiture of strategic and nuclear superiorities which historically have served as NATO 's trumps against traditional Soviet strengths . |
| 24 | Entities , being elements of a specifically linguistic domain which we shall call the intensional level , may or may not have a referent in some real or imaginary external world ; we can certainly talk about an entity while uncertain of the existence of any related " thing " in the world about which we are speaking , or even while explicitly rejecting such an existence . |