Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some teachers may be adept at introducing their pupils to grammatical concepts , or matters of punctuation , by means of jokes and puns which depend on ambiguities , to be cleared up only by distinguishing nouns from adjectives , or different spellings of the same word ( ‘ Giant Waves Down funnel ’ ; ‘ Gladly the Cross I 'd bear ’ = ‘ Gladly , the cross-eyed bear ’ , and other well-known punning equivalents , beloved of all children ) . |
| 2 | It goes right the way you can see over there . |
| 3 | Meantime , I 'll leave Lieutenant Denholm to explain the full horrors of the situation to you — especially the ones you 'll encounter across the lunch table . ’ |
| 4 | But perhaps the moral we should draw is that criticism is not , and can not be , such a discipline ( though literary history is , or may be ) . |
| 5 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 6 | Yes er I think perhaps the point I 'd like to emphasis is that the increase er in runway length is really quite a modest one er and therefore it has n't had an enormous impact . |
| 7 | This figure contains all the separate information-processing components which seem to be needed to explain how we do all the things we can do with verbal stimuli , plus arrows indicating pathways of communication between these components . |
| 8 | So the Sierra I can do ready for you to take to Kevin on Fri Friday night is it ? |
| 9 | In total you can not actually pay more than fifteen percent of salary to erm these well to contributions so in effect you you 're already paying six percent as your basic contribution so the maximum you could pay on any of these schemes is a further nine percent . |
| 10 | So the salt you can remember it through going back to the acid plus alkali reaction , it 's the same one you get there . |
| 11 | Lakoff is a feminist , and her explanation of women 's language is not like Jespersen 's , however much the language itself may seem to be . |
| 12 | Grinols defines the dividend in production as " the profits of British post entry production less the profits which would have been earned using 1972 membership production levels . " |
| 13 | It was not only the aristocracy who could hope for promotion from a change of regime : for instance Riculf hoped that the see of Tours would be granted to him by Chilperic 's son , Clovis , as a result of the Leudast affair and Gregory 's anticipated deposition . |
| 14 | Although he did not say so , the logic is that only the company itself would have a cause of action . |
| 15 | His hands moved over her with knowledge now , stroking , caressing , bringing her within minutes to the point where she was clinging to him , wanting only the satisfaction he could give her . |
| 16 | Moreover there were functions which only the lord himself could carry out , particularly in matters of justice , for as a baron of Scotland , Ramsay had the power of pit and gallows , conferring on him the right and duty to adjudicate in most issues not reserved to the crown , a grave responsibility for a man who took his obligations seriously , and one in which his brother could not replace him . |
| 17 | One problem with the above studies which used GSR to different words as a manipulation of arousal is that the words producing high arousal were not necessarily the ones which would have been predicted a priori . |
| 18 | Skills people bring in are not necessarily the ones they will use as they have to be trained in the needs of the business . |
| 19 | To this day , investigators are still trying to piece together the evidence which will reveal precisely what went wrong . |
| 20 | The head , the deputy and the school secretary have to put together the information which can lead to first comparisons on the basis of the Guidelines for the Review and Internal Development of Schools ( GRIDS ) . |
| 21 | From inside the room it must have looked like he was just hopping off into empty space , say goodbye to Buck Rogers , a suicide leap over a thirty-foot drop . |
| 22 | " They should not be allowed to arrange unchecked and uncontrolled the terms of peace and to decide alone the conditions which will follow it . " |
| 23 | We were still in the Air Force , postings could come out of the blue at any time , so every hour we could spend together was important . |
| 24 | But we did n't have a record player , so every night we 'd get it out and look at it . |
| 25 | We are going to tabulate the information so that we can look at the data from a statistical point of view , so every question you can answer is of value . |
| 26 | So a female who can persuade two males that they each have a stake in the brood will do better in the evolutionary struggle . |
| 27 | I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably said he thought two o'clock every afternoon I 'll remember what I can of Book of Isaiah you know . |
| 28 | it 's only a coefficient we can adjust that later . |
| 29 | The Easy-Carve is in fact not as noisy as one might imagine , but it is not necessarily a tool I 'd want to use for long stretches . |
| 30 | But that 's precisely the problem because erm the definition which I would give to it is necessarily a definition which would preclude er regarding Mao 's party as a Marxist party but then other people would say that my definition was er itself controversial . |