Example sentences of "[det] [art] [noun] [vb mod] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would gladly have availed myself of the opportunity of taking a passage in her myself did I not find by so doing that the party would be entirely broken up and in all probability the trip to the westward abandoned altogether . |
| 2 | After this the treaty would be tacitly extended for five years at a time insofar as one of the signatories did not give one year 's notice of cancelling the treaty . ] |
| 3 | Through this the public will be better informed . |
| 4 | ‘ If you go on in this way , half the camp will be out of bounds before long ’ |
| 5 | Yet in the excitement of becoming a parent it is easy to forget that for some the impact can be not so dissimilar from that caused by the discovery of a rival lover . |
| 6 | On behalf of pedestrians in general , may I say how much the Bill will be greatly welcomed in all parts of the country ? |
| 7 | If some components have to be physically larger than the space provided or require other " upstream " or " downstream " components to be modified as well , then the consequences of pursuing such a concept must be similarly recognized at an early stage . |
| 8 | Circumstances could be envisaged in which such a threat could be most material to a woman . |
| 9 | A covering letter also expresses concern that a government agency had shipped 500 litres of plutonium nitrate through the Minch recently and that the pollution caused by such a cargo would be much worse than the 85,000 tonnes of light oil spilt by the Braer off Shetland . |
| 10 | Such a course would be primarily concerned with the formal , technical , and conventional aspects of poetry , considered both synchronically and diachronically ; in a word , ‘ rhetoric ’ . |
| 11 | Sometimes an intentionally condensed presentation ( e.g. Section 17.5 ) may ‘ make the reader think ’ , but such a tactic can be dangerously optimistic . |
| 12 | The risks of such a procedure would be far too high . |
| 13 | If , on the other hand , the implied qualifying words were agreed to be something like ‘ having regard to the position held or the work done ’ , it is submitted that such a qualification would be quite appropriate . |
| 14 | Jane was angry , not just because he had refused , but because it was unbearable that such a worm could be so successful . |
| 15 | The Group did not look in detail at how such a scheme might be privately financed , and an Anglo-French banking study was commissioned to examine the issues . |
| 16 | Not only was her employer old enough to be her father , but he was a married man , and even if he were not , such a relationship would be totally foreign to her upbringing , if not her very nature . |
| 17 | One important difference between surrogacy and homosexuality is of course that surrogacy results in the birth of a child ; and it could be argued that such a child might be socially disadvantaged if the facts became known . |
| 18 | Such a question can be highly revealing . |
| 19 | Such a doctrine would be formally expressed late in the fifteenth century by Philippe de Commynes who displayed an unheroic attitude to war and a marked preference for diplomacy . |
| 20 | It is their view that such a measure will be very counter-productive . |
| 21 | Such a girl would be much admired in the West and we would think her very beautiful indeed . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Had I had any idea what I was coming home to , I should have assured in advance that such a likeness would be instantly available . ’ |
| 23 | It is customary to divide the Council into a ‘ conservative ’ minority and a ‘ progressive ’ majority , but such a description can be profoundly misleading . |
| 24 | Some critics of the Delors Plan have maintained that while the creation of a European currency union may reap net benefits for a number of EC member countries , for others membership of such a union will be positively harmful , at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 25 | A large microcomputer system with an extensive range of hardware devices and large block of extra machine-code routines is very flexible and powerful , and would go a long way to meeting the requirements of the program designer , but in realistic terms such a system would be too expensive for most schools at present . |
| 26 | Such a system would be relatively simple to introduce on a seat/flight formula . |
| 27 | Also , such a system would be less vulnerable to speculative attack . |
| 28 | Such a system will be highly resistant to the effects of damage to individual modules and will only begin to show marked alterations in function when a large proportion of the modules has been damaged . |
| 29 | Such a bill would be entirely fallacious . |
| 30 | Whether or not the fruits of such a hybrid could be commercially exploited is not yet clear , however MacDonald and Wimpey feel that they are on to something very exciting . |