Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [be] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many acts of trespass , breaches of contract , violations of copyright , and so on , regrettable as some of them may be on other grounds , have no implications one way or another for the stability of the government and the law . |
| 2 | What will happen to me , how I 'll develop , what I 'll be in five years ' time , in ten , in thirty . |
| 3 | I 'm tired this morning , but not as tired as I thought I would be considering two nights out . |
| 4 | Just as you know you must be in certain lecture halls for certain regular lectures , so you need to know where you should be for other forms of study . |
| 5 | On the planned Rate of Descent , make a note of the height at which you should be at half-minute intervals . |
| 6 | packing Friday on the way to mum Peter 's mum she told them she 's just in so much pain , she wants it doing so he 's gon na get in , I said , it 's poss that she 'll be in six days and probably off a few weeks after when she gets home it 's operation on her neck and shoulder they 're going to release the nerve they reckon it 's it 's a she told them and do what they will with it . |
| 7 | She was calm , authoritative , in the way she would be with injured animals . |
| 8 | Edward could see quite clearly behind her shoulder , like the aura visible to spiritualists , the woman she would be in thirty years time . |
| 9 | In the seventh month of pregnancy , Alison Walker needed to be reassured that in the event of her baby 's premature arrival , she would be in good hands . |
| 10 | The Home Guard became a joke for some and a remark once passed in my company was " What use do you think you would be against trained troops ? " . |
| 11 | From the coastal area , you can be in broom-covered hills and forests within 30 minutes . |
| 12 | The perfect joint responds to a couple taps : any stiffer and you can be in seven sorts of trouble . |
| 13 | ‘ We might be on other planets . ’ |
| 14 | She belongs to me ; this is no longer her home ; but we would be on friendly terms with you if — ’ |
| 15 | Impressed as we may be by the caddis house , we are nevertheless , paradoxically , less impressed than we would be by equivalent achievements in animals closer to ourselves . |
| 16 | They may be for longer periods of time , for various investment purposes . |
| 17 | Desirable though they may be in special circumstances , I have always conducted a personal vendetta against glazed cabinets and patented bookcases with evil and malicious sliding and lifting glass panels . |
| 18 | They may be in attractive markets but poorly handled by the company or vice versa . |
| 19 | But it would be stretching the meaning of citizenship to regard these rights — however desirable they may be from other points of view — as forming part of an enlarged ‘ citizenship ’ . |
| 20 | Research topics do not need to be immediately related to BP Chemicals operations but they must be on environmental matters . |
| 21 | So they must be on different sides . ’ |
| 22 | My father thinks they should be in curved lines . |
| 23 | In fact , they all look like they should be in different bands — which is how they manage to slip from soul to jazz , from funk to thrash , so easily . |
| 24 | No , what I 'm saying is , I do n't think from the accident book you 're getting a true picture because people do n't always report it , they 'll be off several days afterwards . |
| 25 | We knew that the districts under study were fairly advanced in the adoption of the care programme approach , and we wanted to find out how representative they might be of other authorities , so we studied the mental health chapters of community care plans to supplement our information . |
| 26 | Although they might be in major shops soon , they 're presently only available from |
| 27 | Two very important indexing journals not always used as much as they might be by social researchers are the British Humanities Index and the Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin . |
| 28 | Then they would be like professional sailors , who , when the ship was caught in a storm , could not handle sails or rudders . |
| 29 | ‘ Local children can still come here and pay the low fees , but they will be in separate classes . |
| 30 | ‘ They will be in British shops within a month , ’ said a spokesman for International Marketing Partners . |