Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 2 | But one rather doubts if they will be . |
| 3 | Both of these people may be too senior for a discussion on props , but they have the most influence and you might be able to interest them in an idea for future use . |
| 4 | But these changes aside , the rest of Blenheim is still very much as Capabilty Brown designed it — and there can be little doubting that he 'd be delighted to see his work still very much alive and admired today . |
| 5 | I should like hon. Members to give TECs not only their support but the time to develop their approach locally to see whether they can meet the high expectations that understandably now exist . |
| 6 | Grief is most powerfully eased when it can be shared . |
| 7 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 8 | Above all territory must be effectively occupied or it would fall to the partisans ; this kept French troops from the battlefield . |
| 9 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 10 | There 's been plenty of speculation about what will be cut and what will be taxed , but it 's widely expected that there 'll be a big increase in the scope of VAT . |
| 11 | Properly looked after they can produce several crops a year and remain fertile for centuries without needing a fallow period . |
| 12 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |
| 13 | When I light-heartedly suggest that he should use Klan members who still harass him for target practice , Cash is genuinely shocked . |
| 14 | So Saturday evening was back to the papers and then back home , usually about seven , mostly walking because you could n't afford the penny for the tram , no ha'penny fares , just a penny , w . |
| 15 | A year ago Dorothy had been in the first , ominous stages of her illness , furiously denying that anything could be wrong , her normal ill temper exacerbated by discomfort and increasing disability . |
| 16 | Old friends would not want to know us , perhaps frightened that we would become a burden upon them . |
| 17 | I would think Frank Clarke would probably give him another minute or so to see if he can run it off . |
| 18 | She is my responsibility and I am merely suggesting that you may want to go home . |
| 19 | I was absolutely delighted , colleagues , when the , er , recommendation came through that Eric should be awarded the gold badge because I could personally testify that there can be no better winner or holder of the G M gold badge . |
| 20 | As a result , the labourer has no view down the vista of which , from his master 's point of view , he forms the conclusion , his windows being so arranged that he can not overlook it . |
| 21 | The only trouble was that the photograph was so arranged that it would be very easy for a picture editor to crop the product out of the picture altogether ! |
| 22 | Elrond 's adamant refusal to take the Ring is because he has considered its advantages but is wise enough to see that it would ruin him utterly . |
| 23 | It had n't taken Benedicta long to realize that it would be sheer cruelty to keep the marquis 's protégée penned within the confines of the convent . |
| 24 | I " vas going to he angry , but you 're obviously so much upset that it would be pointless . |
| 25 | So you 've got to create something quite simple and effective in which they can be successful , which is n't so demanding as you would for the other group . |
| 26 | Another friend of mine , a man who spent most of his adult life looking after his elderly parents until they both died within a year of each other , came home from work one evening and suddenly realised that he could go to the cinema and have a meal out without worrying about anyone else . |
| 27 | She was smiling , and Paul suddenly realised that he could not take money from her . |
| 28 | Any animal with even a rudimentary nervous system will be better placed if it can compute the arrival of impending danger or the location of valuable resources such as food or mates . |
| 29 | Ten months is quite long enough to wait and you should try to get back to the specialist for another course of the ‘ kick-start ’ treatment . |
| 30 | Marchmont was driven to complain that Anson had been ready enough to promise that he would ‘ do it the first moment it was possible ’ , and had already been strongly urged to promote Lieutenant Home by the Duke of Newcastle , but yet had done nothing . |