Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may have worked in different circumstances in a different decade , but in 1992 the people of this country look for something better . |
| 2 | Some may choose to work with vulnerable elderly people out of altruism , and a genuine desire to work with this age group . |
| 3 | Some may feel coerced into company-centred behaviour , some may accept for instrumental reasons because there is no alternative while others may see the family analogy as the ideal structure for industrial relations . |
| 4 | Some may become trapped at new sites , extravasate , and form secondary tumours . |
| 5 | This must include spending by private individuals and by the state , the latter providing for ‘ collective consumption ’ of health and welfare services . |
| 6 | But from Ferrari 's point of view , this must have seemed like grave disrespect : if one legend runs a company , it has an inbuilt interest in creating accompanying , subsidiary legends . |
| 7 | This might have stemmed from inadequate foundations , but what evidence there is suggests otherwise . |
| 8 | This would have plummeted to single figures but for the influx of wealthy Iraqi ‘ refugee holidaymakers ’ now fleeing Saddam Hussein 's regime . |
| 9 | This would have led to well-defined thermodynamic and cosmological arrows of time , as we observe . |
| 10 | All this would have fostered among lay people awareness of a spiritual dimension to life . |
| 11 | The latter is certainly played with great energy although even such a generally obvious piece such as this would have benefitted from heightened sensitivity : Gershwin was , after all , influenced not just by the vibrant colours of the tropics but by their warmth as well . |
| 12 | This will mean forging with other and different churches creative relationships which express the reality of Christian love , brotherhood , and interdependence ’ ( Pasadena Consultation 1978:4 , 5 ) . |
| 13 | About two-thirds of this will have come from nuclear power , the rest from research and medical uses . |
| 14 | Some will have come through mainstream nursery experience with its honourable history of innovation ; others by way of special/remedial education routes . |
| 15 | Yeah but I do n't see how that might have to relate to national curriculum er |
| 16 | These will differ according to local circumstances and above all relationships . |
| 17 | Budapest Municipality will pay half the cost of fitting a converter , but many may prefer to upgrade to new cars . |
| 18 | Many will have played with constructional toys through which , unknowingly , they will have gained some insight into the fundamentals of shape . |
| 19 | Because animals such as these feed on other things at other times of the year , they can not develop specialised nectar-collecting apparatus , for that would make feeding on other substances difficult if not impossible . |
| 20 | But when you spend it when you 're spending your income you 're not accumulating your capital , so this person in five years time , although they 've had their income which may vary between seven and thirteen percent , their ten thousand is still ten thousand pounds , and obviously that would have devalued in real terms against inflation , which is the other problem . |
| 21 | It is difficult to see how punishment could be justified on purely retributivist grounds consistently with the positive freedom principle , and the same would seem to go for expressive denunciation as a general justification of the system . |
| 22 | Both could have done with outboard motors , since neither managed it into the top eight . |
| 23 | This style fits too well into the values and expectations most will have encountered from male relatives and heroes . |