Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] [be] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many statutes can already be summoned up on a video screen at the touch of a few buttons , and complete coverage is in the offing ; but , since the use of these computerised systems is expensive , the old-fashioned methods will long be with us . |
| 2 | However , complex these ideas may have been in their original conception , they were taken over by many educationalists in a simplified , stereotypic form , typified by the supposed dichotomy between ‘ elaborated ’ and ‘ restricted ’ codes . |
| 3 | But it was the thought of how things should have been between them . |
| 4 | Carpenter 's speed and control was even causing problems for Harris , himself no slouch , and Farnham 's hearts must have been in their mouths when the Cranleigh number 10 , having broken clear on the right , hit the deck after a late challenge by Cann who had raced out of his area . |
| 5 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 6 | Back at Gayflowers , the florists where one of the last sightings of James and the two boys was made , Eric Teare said he thought that one of the boys may have been in his shop . |