Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's nothing Biff Thacker can do to me that will even touch what I get at home . ’ |
| 2 | Books of adventure , of which Dr Sambataro was a generous lender , convinced me that nothing exciting would ever happen in Fontanellato . |
| 3 | A character making a successful test against one-half his I can just manage to brace himself and avoid falling down , but you have to roll the tests from the top ( front of the party ) down . |
| 4 | Er another allocation under I five would simply mean that we 'd more land to find in and around main areas . |
| 5 | Here are two states , their economies reeling from decades of Communist rule , seeking control of a fleet which neither can properly afford to maintain . |
| 6 | FOR 15 hours on Tuesday Palestinians worldwide were faced with a prospect which few can seriously have thought about before — that of the PLO without Yasser Arafat as leader . |
| 7 | Here is conscientious Boris Nikolayevich , completing his graduate dissertation in one month rather than the usual five and then refusing the automatic promotion for which this would normally have qualified him , resolving instead to spend a year laying bricks , mixing concrete and becoming one of the boys . |
| 8 | But it does take time , and I think , you know , this puts the , this gives the framework in which this can usually open the opportunities and the methodist women are not short of confidence , and I think that 's why I married an anglican , you see . |
| 9 | Ultimately , of course , Æthelred 's inactivity did cost him his throne , but the point at which this could reasonably have been foreseen may have been little clearer to contemporaries than it is today . |
| 10 | Reliable nesting records are scarce or absent , partly because most cotingas build small , inconspicuous nests , which some will even dismantle if disturbed . |
| 11 | It offers none of the support for removable drives ( floppies and Syquest volumes ) that Stacker provides , which some will doubtless miss , but is purely and simply ( and simple is the watch word here ) a device for squeezing more data onto a fixed disk drive . |
| 12 | If that all sounds like success , there is another , more amazing story which Provincial can now tell . |
| 13 | Books have particular utilities which many will probably agree upon . |
| 14 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 15 | Those with children of their own can also gain enormously from the part that their parents play as grandparents . |
| 16 | The Foreign Secretary stressed , however , that aid on its own can never ensure reform is successfully carried through in the two countries . |
| 17 | There are of course still mysteries about dreaming , and for some of them , perhaps , the technology of the dream laboratory on its own will never provide a solution . |
| 18 | For if the parent bird were to be attacked and killed by the predator , all its young would inevitably perish for subsequent lack of parental care . |
| 19 | If the amphibians could manage to deposit their eggs out of water , their young would certainly have greatly increased chances of survival . |
| 20 | that nothing rude would ever happen to me again . |
| 21 | You two 'll just have to stand behind me and nod your 'eads . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We get between 40 and 80 people into the concert room midweek now , because trying something different will always bring people in the club . ’ |
| 23 | However that may be — and the question of which side made use of them first may well remain unsolved — the Roman law provided the necessary structure for the growing canon law and its study , canonistics ; and it also provided the German emperorship with some possible answers to the canonist onslaught . |
| 24 | An ambitious dancer would kick high above her head , desperate to be noticed , while beside her another might hardly bother to lift her leg . |
| 25 | He defied the doctors of 1914 with energetic pedestrianism , and in his eighties would sometimes trick unwary visitors by suggesting a stroll . |
| 26 | He used his pace and aerial strength and created some chances , one of his passed could easily have resulted in a goal . |
| 27 | He thought of Samuel Roberts , of what that would really mean to him . |
| 28 | If I could get my applicant , you see if , let's say we pay somebody , I du n no fifty , sixty quid a week , fifty quid a week to come and for , two mornings , three mornings , or whatever that 'll then give me enough time to contact the applicants and then ma , maybe maybe two stroke three sales extra per month . |
| 29 | Obviously , no loving couple will present each other with a hard and fast ultimatum but will try to work through together what each can reasonably give to the partnership . |
| 30 | Talking through the advantages and the snags , and deciding what each can reasonably expect from the other , should reduce the threat of future rows and recriminations . |