Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the second half of the eighties , InterCity could at last boast five complete ten-coach VIP train sets all based and serviced at London 's Bounds Green depot . |
| 2 | But perhaps Ratty would above all treasure the slow pace of life and the almost Latin approach to the world — taking things easy is n't a common trait in Germany , but when the ‘ Manyana ’ way of life takes hold the Germans certainly do it well ! |
| 3 | Beeson Gregory will in future guide smaller companies towards a full listing . |
| 4 | Taiwan should revert to China and Korea should at some point receive independence . |
| 5 | And if there had been a degree of sympathy with the other defeated peoples — a doubtful claim , it has to be said , particularly with regard to the Poles — in this case ‘ the entire population took the view that England should at all costs be destroyed ’ . |
| 6 | From the Cairngorms through the Spey valley pinewoods round Abernethy and Rothiemurchus , out to Wester Ross and even the inner isles , so much wild country is changing hands — or at least changing status — that is has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures and of what the poet Thomas Grey called ‘ the pomp of power ’ , where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ' past follies and arrogance . |
| 7 | Bog asphodel and damselfly. ‘ … it has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures … where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ’ past follies and arrogance . ’ |
| 8 | In the expectation that Denmark will in due course be able to join them , our partners propose to complete the ratification procedures . |
| 9 | But with both in place , Russia will at last be able to make full use of the $13 billion in foreign help that has been promised . |
| 10 | BRIAN CLOUGH could at last smile after Nottingham Forest last night belied their desperate League form to overcome Tottenham and reach the quarter-finals of the Coca-Cola Cup . |
| 11 | But it was clearly possible that W. might at any time decide to refuse consent to some form of treatment , even if it was only the oral administration of medicines , because one of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa is a desire by the sufferer to ‘ be in control ’ and such a refusal would be an obvious way of demonstrating this . |
| 12 | In Read v. Lyons , for instance , Lord Simonds remarked that ‘ the judgment of Blackburn J. in the case itself shows that the law of nuisance and the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher might in most cases be invoked indifferently . ’ |
| 13 | Comfort 's hands were clenched over the carved , gilded footboard of the bed and her big grey eyes were anxious when Julia could at last focus on them . |
| 14 | From May the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía will at last be what its title implies , a national museum exhibiting a permanent collection of modern and contemporary works of art . |
| 15 | It is not that Lee should in some way be forbidden to talk about white , male canonical authors , but a book such as this ought to suggest a greater awareness of the very issues it is summarising . |
| 16 | Overbeck 's critique connected directly with the recent rediscovery of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament in the work of Weiss and Schweitzer ; and these were powerfully reinforced in their effect upon Barth by the preaching of J. C. Blumhardt ( 1827 — 91 ) , which had centred on the call to live in the light of the future coming of the kingdom , in which the victory won by God in the death and resurrection of Jesus would at last become apparent . |
| 17 | Is it too much to hope that , in spite of the worst excesses of this year , Mozart will at last be allowed to grow up ? |
| 18 | If and when that event occurs , the United Kingdom will at last have a distinct and workable law of civil liberties as opposed to its present vulnerability to the whims of Parliament and government from time to time . |
| 19 | SFA may in due course also include relevant European institutions ( see page 37 below ) as qualifying intermediaries . |
| 20 | While these oboists were all young musicians , Jacques Hotteterre would in 1675 have been a well established artist , at the mid-point in his career , with a name carrying the renown of the Hotteterres as performers and instrument makers ; he can now be identified as probably the first French oboist known to have held an official position at the English court . |
| 21 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 22 | Now , Dorothea felt justly punished , for she was merely sad , and Isabel would in any case consider it as inevitable good manners to have refused . |
| 23 | DW may at any time replace , modify , alter , improve , enhance or otherwise change the Program . |
| 24 | Britain may at last fully enter the European Monetary System — and nothing much will change . |
| 25 | As Anita Mason shows , Simon Peter must at first have been thoroughly convinced that the world would literally end with Jesus 's death — that an apocalyptic holocaust would consume the whole of creation , that upheavals such as those recounted by Old Testament prophets would sweep the earth , that God would descend to pronounce stern judgement . |
| 26 | The rest of Europe could at this time show little lute music comparable with that of the Spanish and Italian lutenists . |
| 27 | But Mr E could at that moment not remember , and this lapse of memory made him rather thoughtful . |
| 28 | Steel-Maitland could at last be moved from the Ministry of Labour , which had in many ways been the key departmental post of the administration , and in which he had throughout been ill-regarded but undisturbed . |
| 29 | Ethnic Germans from the rest of Eastern Europe would at this stage continue to receive benefits . ) |
| 30 | The federal project in Europe would in some respects have enlarged Westminster 's competence , because of the capacity it accorded Europe 's national governments to take on the world 's financial markets and thus broaden the taxing , spending and borrowing options that have been , up until now , in the shadow of highly conservative directors of international capital flows . |