Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |
| 2 | Nearly 40 per cent felt that they needed more information about the problems and background of individual children and about one-quarter would have liked more general information about the child as well as more advice about how they could help to meet the child 's needs . |
| 3 | And with this would come a second liberation for women , the freedom to transcend the roles set up by figures like Annie Lennox and Janet Jackson , and to recover the right not to be strong , independent , immaculately in control . |
| 4 | He met and struck a rapport with Brian Stoddart , academic historical adviser on the mini-series , who became his co-author on Cricket and Empire : ‘ We had new information , and above all could place the incident in its broader social , political and historical context . |
| 5 | You may believe , for example , that you have the right to speak your mind and from this will follow certain ways of behaving that will differ markedly from someone who believes they have the right to remain silent . |
| 6 | Fortunately the Ecuadorian government is sympathetic and in 1982–83 will have paid at least 60 per cent of the station 's budget , or about $750000 . |
| 7 | Wherever they were , they would have been bombarded with radiations ; and as the primitive atmosphere was different in composition from that of today , and in particular would have lacked an ozone layer , they could well have received higher doses of radiation than they would today . |
| 8 | Our Adult All-line tickets have been held at 1991 Standard rates and Over 60's can enjoy even greater benefits — 33% off all fares . |
| 9 | We shall distinguish the three layers just indicated , and on each shall contrast an analysis which proceeds ‘ top-down ’ ( from system to unit ) with one which proceeds ‘ bottom-up ’ ( from unit to system ) . |
| 10 | ICL also OEMs Sun workstations , mostly to scientific and engineering customers , and on these will continue to support Sun 's Solaris operating system . |
| 11 | True , his life was ordered and uneventful , and to many would appear monotonous . |
| 12 | The artsman is an antique fossil and at best will make a fine filing clerk . |
| 13 | It therefore follows that to receive these beacons with the point five frequencies the aircraft equipment must have sufficient bandwidth to cover at least on kHz , and at best will have a much degraded performance with reduced usable range and accuracy . |
| 14 | The news means ACE has now effectively lost two of its main founder members — if MIPS ' submission to Silicon Graphics Inc is n't counted — and at best can count only on the flirtatious attention of Digital Equipment Corp and Microsoft Corp , who are conducting their own extra-marital affair . |
| 15 | He was dropped by Prabhakar in the gully when 73 , and at 89 should have been run out by yards , but Srikkanth 's throw from close range missed the stumps and went for four overthrows . |
| 16 | Basing himself on authority from the United States , La Forest J. concluded that any other rule would at best be inefficient , and at worst could lead to financial chaos : see pp. 194–197 . |
| 17 | It is estimated that British Gas 's contracted supplies from the North Sea will start to run down from 1984 and by 1995 will meet only one-third of UK needs . |
| 18 | Ford has continued to raise the minimum standard for the award — and by 1991 will use only suppliers that meet it . |
| 19 | Total expenditure on transport services around 1750 probably exceeded £1.25 million a year ; by 1800 it was probably over £3 million , and by 1815 may have been approaching £5 million . |
| 20 | It met with HMIs and DES officers , set up its own committee machinery , and by 1978 could present a view of ‘ the polytechnics ’ fulfilment of the purposes for which they were created' . |
| 21 | And if you go for the land reform , if you promise the peasants the land erm and you 're moving towards a position of , y you , you you 're still thinking exactly what your policy is but under that might come a a realization that absolute egalitarianism is the best way of doing this , look th th there is enough land for us to be able to do this , this is the simplest process which will guarantee for middle peasant status , it will bring their , their living standards up to acceptable levels . |
| 22 | Gedanken studied it intently , but at first could see nothing . |
| 23 | The leaders , after Alcyone , are Atlas ( 3.6 ) , Electra ( 3.7 ) , Maia ( 3.9 ) , Merope ( 4.2 ) , Taygete ( 4.3 ) , Pleione ( 5.1 , but rather variable ) , Celæno ( 5.4 ) and Asterope ( 5.6 ) ; Atlas and Pleione are close together , but × 7 will separate them easily . |
| 24 | In the early stages after sentencing , supervision would be strict , and because of this would have an effect upon the probation officers ' traditional , caring function , emphasising instead a more custodial role . |
| 25 | But however similar the contracts may appear , the decision as to each must depend on the consideration of the particular contract , read in the light of the material circumstances of the parties in view of which the contract is made " . |
| 26 | Thus , anyone listed as aged fifty-five could have been any age between fifty-five and fifty-nine . |