Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [be] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also feel , Brian , we may be avoiding the question that or the part of this question which some of our listeners may be particularly interest in , and Bob did touch upon it , which is have things changed much in democracy in the classroom , is there a change ? |
| 2 | My friend Kevin , muscleman and minicab driver , says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it was n't tipping down with rain the whole time . |
| 3 | ‘ I think the director and some of the cast of Fly-Buttons should be out front tonight . ’ |
| 4 | If the contras could be neither saints nor crack troops , their appeal had to lie in romantic desperation : the ‘ fact ’ that they had been forced into exile , like the ‘ little old lady ’ with her hair in a bun and her dress ‘ held together by safety pins and string ’ whom Owen had met in a camp in Honduras ; the ‘ fact ’ that the soldiers were without food or uniforms , their hospitals nothing but hen-coops , lacking even mosquito netting ; the fact that there was never enough money for anything . |
| 5 | One of the most exciting areas will be where computer packages and the information carried by ISDN 's signalling facilities interact . |
| 6 | In 1993 , the group 's charitable donations will be around £2 million in the UK along . |
| 7 | In the end the main beneficiary of London 's troubles may be neither Frankfurt nor Amsterdam , nor any other competing centre , but lots of quieter places that are not central at all . |
| 8 | These bolts should be about 7.5cm ( 3in ) long so that you can fit several layers of blotting paper , newspaper and flowers into the press . |
| 9 | What is important about Griffith , however , is that his demonstration that feature films could be both art and social treatise was not inspired by any narrow or specific intellectual or doctrinal position . |
| 10 | With vessels costing a total of about 13s. 8d. a quintal to produce , the costs would be about £4 : 8s. : 8d. but then sell at £4 : 13s. : 4d. ; a small profit indeed . |
| 11 | Software costs would be around £1500 , plus £1500 customising costs . |
| 12 | We had been quoted £60 per quare foot and reckoned out costs would be around £35 , a saving of about £25 per quare foot — £3,500 ! |
| 13 | First of all I do n't think local needs would be fully met , as you know I think very often the migrants are able to outbid local households in the market , so I do n't think local needs will be fully met. |
| 14 | CW reported that Brazilian group consumable costs will be approximately £200 p.a . |
| 15 | Andrea Vecchiotti , the managing director of Otis , a maker of lifts and escalators , which is building a $10m plant in Penang , says that direct labour costs will be only 2% of the cost of producing a lift on the island . |
| 16 | It 's been done in the States with a baton twice as long , but this attempt means the planes will be just 12ft apart . |
| 17 | Capital expenditure on trunk road schemes in Wiltshire in the next three years will be approximately £50 million . |
| 18 | Water changes should be around 30% per week . |
| 19 | These holes should be about 5cm ( 2inches ) square in area and 2·5cm ( linch ) deep . |
| 20 | The support facilities on shore for a 200-machine 600 MW cluster of wind generators would be around £25 million while transmission costs were estimated at four times that for a conventional 600 MW power station ( all at mid-1979 prices ) . |
| 21 | IBM said that the cost of the actions will be approximately $2,100m net , on top of the $2,100m that it will take to cover the cost of the voluntary redundancies , the $4,200m total to be offset by adoption of Financial Accounting Standard 109(a) , which will allow the company to write back to the profit and loss account about $1,900m in money set aside for deferred taxes . |
| 22 | But winning new sponsorship deals can be extremely time consuming and frustrating for the organisers . |
| 23 | These are soft lacquer discs which record your ‘ A ’ and ‘ B ’ side from your studio master tape ( these discs can be either 7″ or 12″ , depending on your chosen format ) . |
| 24 | The loans must be below 75% of the purchase price . |
| 25 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 26 | There are no special requirements in relation to the formation of a multi-national partnership — save that all the partners must be either solicitors or RFLs and there must be at least one of each to make it an MNP . |
| 27 | They name him Xorandor because they notice that ‘ His logic could be both absolutely rigorous and absolutely contradictory at crucial points , some arguments could be both XOR and AND , or XOR and OR ’ ( 18 ) . |
| 28 | But bear in mind that charges for non-emergencies can be around £150 an hour , plus VAT . |
| 29 | In 1981 the BWB chairman , Sir Frank Price said : ‘ The Fraenkel figure for the backlog of maintenance at today 's prices must be about £100 million . |
| 30 | Additionally , respondents must be both television subscribers and telephone subscribers . |