Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [noun prp] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There still remained the question of whether MacDonald would fill his essential part in the new arrangement . |
| 2 | THE Governor , Chris Patten , postponed publishing his democratic reform bill yesterday , but the key question of whether China would accept talks to solve the dispute over Hong Kong 's future went unanswered . |
| 3 | And he insisted : ‘ It 's now not a case of whether Blackburn will begin winning championship titles and cups , but when . ’ |
| 4 | There seemed little left in the match except the question of whether Wright would get the 36 runs he needed for 5000 in Tests , in what was rumoured to be his last appearance . |
| 5 | It was not just a question of such obvious policy differences as the question of whether Nato should continue to exist — there were differences of emphasis , too . |
| 6 | I mean my dear , I said to Paul , Paul yesterday was was babbling on about if Karen would take him back and I said Paul I shall be extremely displeased if you ever leave this house to go back to Karen , you know o after only being with me for something like three or four weeks , I said you 'll never come back again I said I 'm not going to be messed about like that ! |
| 7 | He appears to have made his own luck and , despite setbacks such as presenting the short-lived TV quiz show Scruples , it looks as if Simon will continue to be a success . |
| 8 | It looks therefore as if Russia will have to join the back of a long queue before its turn comes again . |
| 9 | It looks as if Berowne could have washed his hands when he arrived and that 's all . |
| 10 | So it might seem as if Snow could lie purring in his grave , and as if the two cultures were coming together . |
| 11 | It seemed as if Lydia would take them like a new baby and display them triumphantly to the assembled company . |
| 12 | If then we have uneasy feelings about modern art , it looks as if Joyce must confirm them a thousandfold . |
| 13 | IBM will doubtless throw much of its considerable muscle behind OS/2 — but increasingly it looks as if OS/2 will become something of a specialised product , used for heavyweight purposes like running database servers . |
| 14 | as if Brownlow could read his mind , he broke in quietly . |
| 15 | No action was taken but Warrington general manager Ron Close said : ‘ We have looked closely at the video and it looks as if Jones might have deliberately kicked Bob , who has been told by a specialist that he came within an eighth of an inch of losing the eye . |
| 16 | She sounded as if Claudia would know what she was talking about . |
| 17 | One moment halfway up the straight it looked as if Eddery might have cut it too fine ; the next it was a question of how far he would win by , for this burst of speed was so decisive that it made the top horses in Europe look one-paced . |
| 18 | 4-0 up and with the pack apparantly in tremendous form it looked as if Gloucester would sew up the game in the first half . |
| 19 | As for Melstead , I get the impression that Comrade Andrew " and she slightly emphasised the " comrade " , as if Alice would do well to think about it , " that Comrade Andrew is not all that keen on cadres from outside joining the pickets . " |
| 20 | Pascoe nodded , as if Thomas could see him . |
| 21 | Not weak , ’ Culley half-raised a hand as if Helen might have been about to challenge his judgement in this . |
| 22 | For a moment it looked as if Evans might resist , then he let himself be led to the sofa where he sat down quietly with his head between his hands and began to cry . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , they 're both still worrying about the amount of flesh they 're showing , as if Joni would mind ! ’ |
| 24 | It was n't as if Jay might storm into banks with a shot-gun , or ram a wages van . |
| 25 | Sooner or later some crap , and a lot of nastiness would have to be dealt with before Europe could come together . |
| 26 | Well I do n't know where it were from because Ernie used to get his seed from our shop . |
| 27 | The United States , the Soviet Union and other leading member states , all adhered to 242 , disagreeing only over whether Israel should withdraw completely or could insist on minor border rectifications . |
| 28 | Despite initial confusion over whether Snegur would accept the resignations , on July 1 185 out of 244 deputies voted to appoint former Agriculture Minister , Andrei Sangheli , as Prime Minister . |
| 29 | The conversation had now passed beyond whether Hammerman would attack . |
| 30 | ‘ Like that one in Gulliver , ’ said Ann , and this started a discussion as to whether Scotland could engineer the flight of its islands to hover over England and starve her of sunlight and rain , like Laputa in Gulliver 's Travels . |