Example sentences of "[modal v] [noun] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considerations of comity dictated a practice of judicial self-restraint , which meant in effect that a party seeking to obtain evidence abroad in a Hague Convention county must resort first to the procedures provided by the Convention . |
| 2 | As Joan de Warenne , she had no place at court other than as a servant — should privileges such as befitted her true station be accorded her , unwelcome suspicion would be aroused . |
| 3 | Why should organisations such as the NFoL , the NVALA and others have developed when they did ? |
| 4 | Before you attempt some — if not all — of these exercises , you must warm-up first with ‘ The Daily Dozen ’ . |
| 5 | Your contract will be with Fal Sail , and you 'll book direct with them . |
| 6 | Small electorates can be managed by politicians , and when the typical county might number forty to sixty freeholders in its electoral roll , while even one of the more extensive lists would rarely exceed 150 voters , many of whom would be nominally qualified , there was clearly opportunity for manipulation . |
| 7 | It was a joke — I had to cook for 70 people and there were 12 rooms and a pub as well that could seat 100–200 in summer . |
| 8 | See you could seat fifty on here . |
| 9 | How could countries dependent upon her economically exercise any meaningful constraint ? |
| 10 | The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , who inherited supervisory responsibilities as part of the rescue plan , now admits the problem could costs tens of billions more than anticipated . |
| 11 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 12 | At the limit , it is difficult to see how an emphasis on measured results is consistent with multilateralism ; it is not possible to imagine that the GATT could police hundreds of agreements , each with its own predetermined measure of success . |
| 13 | A few days later Lord Thorneycroft , the Party Chairman , and Alastair ( now Lord ) McAlpine came to me and asked if we could stage another for the European Elections — three weeks later . |
| 14 | As he told the NSS last year , ‘ All the great reformers and responsible people did n't dare pop their heads above the parapet when I was saying , ‘ Let's junk some of the rubbish , let's talk , let's get some real debate back . ' |
| 15 | Clause 9.15.2 may in particular be considered objectionable and so may clause 9.15.3 for that matter . |
| 16 | When money ran short , whether through neglect , illness or even death of the breadwinner , women would resort first to kin and to neighbours . |
| 17 | Would beer free of these components be less harmful ? |
| 18 | A National Guard , reporting directly to the President , was to be established immediately , in order to reduce the role of the army in riot control ; according to official sources it would number tens of thousands , and would incorporate the riot police . |
| 19 | Reports said that they would number 90,000-100,000 in the first two years . |
| 20 | Yet some of the people concerned would be people I was at school with ; and in any case it would cal 1 upon questions and allegiances that I had continuously pushed into the rear recesses of my mind . |
| 21 | Reading across from £789 , we find B would value this at about the equivalent of £410 , whilst the alternative certainty equivalent under contract 1 is £400 , as we saw previously ( because the owner gets £0 or £1000 under contract 1 ) . |
| 22 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 23 | Erm and so the , the project we 've put forward is that we will trial some of these indicators , to see whether they work , to see what they tell us , erm and therefore we would hopefully be able to improve these indicators , so that we think that they 're , they 're much better in order to er sort of shape the , the performance for the , the future services . |
| 24 | Rarely will evidence such as source A condemn itself so readily , and rarely will interpretation differ to this extreme . |
| 25 | Here is a diesel-engine car which will out-gun many of its petrol-engine rivals . |
| 26 | Fig. 59 , an Ionian reveller , or perhaps rather serving-boy , with cup and jug , may stand for them ; as may fig. 60 with its charming nymphs and their wine-jar , for the related craft of die-sinking . |
| 27 | It weighs a chunky 2,601 pounds — but the pay-off is a back seat that can seat three in reasonable comfort . |
| 28 | No do it tomorrow , take everything off tomorrow and when we pull the beds out , strip the beds you can vac all behind the beds , right ? |
| 29 | Well you can pickle some for me . |
| 30 | Well , I can re-offer this at five hundred and sixty to the half thousand dollars , instead of , six hundred and eleven thousand , six hundred , that sounds like a ten percent reduction to me . |