Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [modal v] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also remember that although signing one card for everyone might be cheaper for you , there are still some folk within the fellowship who may not have a big circle of family or friends and who would really appreciate a card from you . |
| 2 | Some couples whose cohabitation has worked well for them may be surprised , hurt or bewildered when , legally married , they find their relationship deteriorating . |
| 3 | Since all goods are donated , most of them of high quality coming from the more affluent within and outwith the parish , charges for them can be minimal so providing a social service as well as a subsidy towards the hall expenses . |
| 4 | However , this embraces a wide variety of behaviours ; the relationship between them may be cooperative or coercive ; their roles may be ill-defined or clearly-defined , overlapping , conflicting etc . |
| 5 | The gravitational attraction between them will be strongest between their closest points , a and a' , and weakest between their furthest points , c and c' . |
| 6 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 7 | Life for me would be empty and not life , a mere dragging on of weary time , perhaps not that . |
| 8 | If you read that through I will be grateful . |
| 9 | Making changes in the way we use drugs , have sex or look after ourselves can be difficult . |
| 10 | How can we guarantee that those who rule Chung Kuo after us will be good ? |
| 11 | Then she began to think to herself about which would be best , nasturtiums or sweet peas . |
| 12 | It 's just a fact , nobody could predict it and there for nobody would be liable . |
| 13 | But I mean if that goes if that goes through if that falls through somebody might be interested and and somebody might erm I du n no . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 15 | The overall figures and the implications for land rest heavily on the role to be played by slum clearance , the need for which must be greater than current rates ( an issue which is discussed in a later section on housing ) . |
| 16 | But Gentlemen for your deliberations to be useful they must be free — your opinions must not be shackled by authorities ; & I know that were I present your candor and delicacy towards me would be such , as to prevent that freedom of discussion and investigation , which is absolutely necessary to obtain a knowledge of facts . |
| 17 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that since it was the business of estate agents to act for numerous principals , several of whom might be competing and whose interests would conflict , a term was to be implied in the contract with such an agent that he was entitled to act for other principals selling similar properties and to keep confidential information obtained from each principal and that the agent 's fiduciary duty was determined by the contract of agency ; that since the plaintiff knew that the defendants would be acting for other vendors of comparable properties and would receive confidential information from them , the agency contract could not have included terms requiring them to disclose that confidential information to him , or precluding them from acting for rival vendors , or from trying to earn commission on the sale of another vendor 's property ; and that , accordingly , although the purchaser 's interest in acquiring both properties was material information which could have affected negotiations for the sale price of the plaintiff 's house , the defendants were not in breach of their duty in failing to inform the plaintiff of the agreement to buy the adjacent house , which was confidential to the owner thereof , and the defendants ' financial interest in that sale did not give rise to a breach of fiduciary duty ( post , pp. 941A–B , G–H , 942A–B , G — 943B ) . |
| 18 | A group of urban poor , some of whom may be recent migrants , driven by the insanitary conditions , high rents and overcrowding of the slum areas , squat on a piece of unused land , and hastily erect a temporary shack . |
| 19 | According to some reports , the plan envisaged a 150,000-strong force ( 100,000 of whom would be Egyptian ) to act as a permanent buffer between the GCC countries and Iraq . |
| 20 | Before the advent of molecular genetics , screening of newborns in the United Kingdom was generally regarded as ethically unsound because no treatment was available ; it offered little advantage to the family other than the possibility of terminating all subsequent male fetuses , more than half of whom would be normal . |
| 21 | I do n't know , but anyone who says they were had better contend with lawyers hired by scribes such as Stephen Pile , P J O'Rourke , Matthew Parris , Patrick Collins , Peter Tinniswood , Clive Anderson et al , none of whom would be amused by the suggestion that their work was anything other than top-notch . |
| 22 | The Bank of England acts as banker to a variety of customers , many of whom would be atypical clients of a commercial bank : |
| 23 | Each borough is allowed a squad of 10 players , two of whom must be female , and these females must be involved in every game of the round robin competition sponsored by Littlewoods/Reebok . |
| 24 | Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery . |
| 25 | The four short-listed artists are Grenville Davey , Damien Hirst , David Tremlett and Alison Wilding , each of whom has produced an impressive body of work in recent years and is beginning to enjoy international recognition , but none of whom will be familiar to a wider audience . |
| 26 | 3,000 youngsters , approximately , will participate and audiences are likely to run at around 15,000 , most of whom will be young people . |
| 27 | We have people here tonight from all departments of our dealership — Sales , Finance , Parts and Service , all of whom will be more than pleased to help . |
| 28 | In the case of estate agents , it is their business to act for numerous principals : where properties are of a similar description , there will be a conflict of interest between the principals each of whom will be concerned to attract potential purchasers to their property rather than that of another . |
| 29 | The two previous BT issues have proved popular with Northern Ireland investors , many of whom will be interested in the latest flotation which will be the biggest-ever privatisation issue . |
| 30 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |