Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
| 2 | My youngest daughter , Fleur , perhaps as a defence and because being the youngest she could n't conceive of a world without her father — I hope I 'm not kidding myself here — gave the impression that all was well . |
| 3 | In other words , if they had n't got him with the six he 'd never have gone bloody broke ! |
| 4 | in the seventies but like er you can do it in the seventies you ca n't do it in the nineties . |
| 5 | Hey — if the worst comes to the worst we could always have a ‘ safe ’ official list , and an ‘ alternative ’ list . |
| 6 | A leading Loch Lomondside farmer , John Maxwell of Cashel Farm , said : ‘ It 's been a dreadful winter — one of the worst I can ever remember — with rain day after day and it just proves how wrong the Government were to cut back the HLCAs for hill use . ’ |
| 7 | Like going to sleep by contrasting a bed with a pavement , I sometimes find myself thinking that if the worst comes to the worst I can always earn a living by my hands ; I can scrub , clean , cook and sew ; all you have in the end is your labour . |
| 8 | But he was not too worried ; he had had enough of worry for one morning ; if it came to the worst he would just report it stolen . |
| 9 | At the worst he can merely be accused of unwittingly acting out a fantasy , but even if this were so , it was a fantasy with very real consequences . |
| 10 | An up-to-date Michelin or other detailed road-map ( number 85 is the Michelin sheet you need ) is absolutely necessary , and the smaller your car the happier you may well feel , when trying , let us say , to squeeze past an opposing motorist or an unyielding sheep or cow on a track designed obviously for one . |
| 11 | And at various stages during the organic you 'll also be coming to what we call optical isomers . |
| 12 | If it is sloping to the right so much that it is nearly parallel with the diagonal it will never be completed unless drastic action is taken . |
| 13 | If it is sloping to the right so much that it is nearly parallel with the diagonal it will never be completed unless drastic action is taken . |
| 14 | ‘ The Poor we will always have with us ’ . |
| 15 | That is much better than the 3,000 I would otherwise have got through , but much worse than the zero I set out to achieve . |
| 16 | He would then be able to judge to which of the latter he could most advantageously give his second preference , and this informed choice could well not be the same as the " blind " choice the STV obliges him to make . |
| 17 | For the latter you will probably join Lincoln 's Inn , for the former one of the three other Inns . |
| 18 | If you travel in the Arctic you must never expect to succeed every time . |
| 19 | If , for example , the driver 's national insurance contributions are paid partly by the haulier it may well be presumed that the driver is an employee . |
| 20 | Offers the nearest you will now get to an ‘ 84 Charing Cross Road ’ service , even advising clients ( Lord Lambton , Sean Connery ) on what they might like to read . |
| 21 | And I said oh that 's right , he said and I , I 'd come up and see her the first we 'll either take her out for a drink afterwards , I thought that does n't seemed to mix in one glass , and I going to a pub because she 's , but there you are , and she so 's erm , can I bet you 'll stay a bit , she said oh , I think December is your like it to be , well obviously it 's getting him settled you must n't over , she must off pushed him and then he 's said erm , I , I 've told mum and dad that if they want to go as well , they can go . |
| 22 | The first they could probably do without , the second will probably fill the Lions with pride . |
| 23 | From the first he would often stay behind ‘ after hours ’ , telling his mates he ‘ just wanted to finish this run ’ because he knew the machines were capable of producing more material than they were currently achieving . |
| 24 | On the first he could only straighten out to stay ahead of the whitewater ; on the second he bailed out as the roof caved in . |
| 25 | There 's nothing you can do about the latter , and as for the former you 'll simply have to stop worrying . |
| 26 | After all , if it did not occur to Bohr , Heisenberg and Schrödinger in the twenties it can not be trivially self-evident . |
| 27 | If we analyze lots of water samples taken at different depths at the same we can then plot a graph of concentration versus depth and get a profile that looks something like this . |
| 28 | I think the chicken was about the same I would n't run a business like it I tell you that much . |
| 29 | I said the same I ca n't persuade our chaps on the Yorkshire Moors that they are getting twenty six pound a week , when they 're not , you see ? |
| 30 | But all the same I could n't make such a move without giving it some thought , ’ Paula said grandly . |