Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [coord] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may need a lot of confidence a lot of support and you might even need some help looking after your children if they 're quite young . |
| 2 | So I think we ought to be considering the entire sum of money but we ought also to be looking for ways in which we could be maximising the total impact . |
| 3 | This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that the system is so highly structured that there is no question of uncertainty and it would therefore be impossible to impair the efficiency of it . |
| 5 | The following day was the end of term and I shall never forget the shock when Miss Smith read the Class Examination results for I thought my name would never come . |
| 6 | ‘ They like the rush of blood but I can happily do without it . ’ |
| 7 | That is precisely the background to the study which was conducted by the four chiefs of defence staff , they were asking that kind of question and I 'll now ask the Group Captain to respond . |
| 8 | THESE are costly pieces of equipment and we can again highlight the way in which suppliers and departments in |
| 9 | The Board is entitled to require you not to attend at any place of work and they may otherwise suspend you from the performance of your duties under this appointment where that course is a necessary precaution in the public interest or otherwise in the interests of the Board pending the outcome of criminal , disciplinary or other investigations or proceedings and where no alternative course is reasonably appropriate . |
| 10 | Most social services departments will install aids for the disabled and elderly free of charge and they may even pay towards the cost of a yearly holiday , or provide some free holiday facility . |
| 11 | A typical provenance project could involve analysis of a hundred to two hundred samples of pottery and it would clearly be impossible to make sense of all two thousand to four thousand quantitative elemental analyses without the use of modern multivariate statistical computer programs . |
| 12 | Ask most people the time of day and they 'll usually look at a watch or a clock . |
| 13 | do it like that you need a piece of paper and lots of water and I 'll just go and get brushes . |
| 14 | But at lambing time they take on a total change of character and they can sometimes become very aggressive . |
| 15 | When you have shared years of happiness and companionship , making that final choice seems like an act of treachery but it will probably be the kindest , bravest decision you will have made for your pet . |
| 16 | This is an excellent way of learning but you can only obtain the material for the questions by listening . |
| 17 | To his dismay his weight problem was causing him to become increasingly short of breath and he would soon have to restrict his carnal pleasures . |
| 18 | Very many investigations can follow this kind of pattern and you can always encourage pupils to take this approach if they are stuck or you are unable to see where else they might go . |
| 19 | Power might be a position of authority but it might also be the expertise or the charisma of the leader . |
| 20 | The bars of the histogram are arranged in descending order of size and it will usually be found that 80 per cent of the money will be associated with 20 per cent of the products , to a first approximation — the origin of the well-known 80–20 rule . |
| 21 | The bars of the histogram are arranged in descending order of size and it will usually be found that 80 per cent of the money will be associated with 20 per cent of the products , to a first approximation — the origin of the well-known 80 — 20 rule . |
| 22 | Now erm tt we have your date of birth but I 'll just confirm that er just to make sure that our records our correct |
| 23 | We started with provisioning the boat at the quay ( ’ Put the bloody whisky out of sight or we 'll never get shown in Saudi Arabia ’ ) and leaving the quay . |
| 24 | The supreme Tour de France riders will have bad days in their three weeks of competition but they will also become more powerful . |
| 25 | The Japanese expect a third generation about 1990 ; these will be ‘ learning robots ’ capable of self-programming and they will also be able to move around . |
| 26 | The effect of this agent may be a result of its ability to reduce the lithogenicity of bile and it may therefore be of particular benefit in patients with complicating biliary calculi . |
| 27 | My brother works for the Department of Health and he can always arrange to get away if he knows the date far enough in advance . ’ |
| 28 | This service is intended for people who are hard of hearing but it could also help language learners follow the programme . ) |
| 29 | It can , nevertheless , get out of hand and we should always bear in mind the need to intervene , to challenge , to focus the work , to use this period of " dramatic play " to provide learning opportunities . |
| 30 | Then that was changed by my weaker side of brain and I could no longer " get inspired " . |