Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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1 | Thirty of them made the trip to Gulfstream Park and the best they could manage was one Irish and one French third place , both well beaten . |
2 | If he is unlucky , then there will be a battle at sea , and the best he can hope for is that none of our sea-borne army manages to make a landing . |
3 | They gave Ken the best reviews he had had to date — and the best he could possibly wish for . |
4 | It made its own terms , and the best you could hope for was it would n't happen the way it had happened to Mary Moxton at the Turk 's Head . |
5 | With plywood and hardboard , it 's no so easy to hide the joins , and the best you can do is to use a thick textures paper such as woodchip or a heavy blown vinyl . |
6 | I mean , you have a kid , a little baby boy , and the best you can do with it is to name it John ? |
7 | the more calories they will burn up and the leaner they will become . |
8 | Your looking at the head on , its on the right hand side and the only you can get it so I do n't really bet how much put on it cos I do n't want to get out of my , done it all properly and that . |
9 | The barbel will not be far away from the snag , and the closer you can fish to it with safety the better your chances are of catching these big fish . |
10 | Perhaps you 're just playing your cards close to your chest and the first we 'll know about it is your engagement . |
11 | And the first one would be where . |
12 | These bulletins will be available free to anyone who is interested and the first one will be published next month . |
13 | Cray Research Inc reports that the Space Data and Computing Division of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has ordered a Cray C98 system : C98s start at around $12m and the new one will be installed in the second half of this year and will be used for Earth and space sciences research , the firm said . |
14 | and the other one wo n't eat carrots , we end up getting |
15 | And the m th chap in sitting in the top , he 'd be turning round and the other one would be walking down slowly backwards er grabbing a rope wi to join the two to make it into a a double rope . |
16 | well as a divisional sales and marketing director I had two particular jobs , one would be erm in developing if you want the alteration of sales and marketing and the other one would be looking at overall strategic in sales and marketing |
17 | Yeah , well they got they were , they were sharp both ends , they were n't , ai n't got no stern , them paddle they were paddle boats , so there you got one they had a rudder each end so they had to keep one rudder shut and the other one used to steer . |
18 | But what i should actual fact be , one should be owing two pound more than what it says and the other one should be owing two pound less . |
19 | And ano and the other one 'd have to do the stairs . |
20 | And the other one 'd do the stairs that week . |
21 | And that they , two people , you know somebody every week will collect in all the languages books and take them along er , or the language homework and take them along to their language teacher and the other one will take the history le , homework and take them on to the history teacher , and then they go off to assembly alright ? |
22 | Payment for the two men who died because of you and the many who might have died . ’ |
23 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
24 | From time to time they shed meteorites and the odd one will make a small , exotic dent on the surface of pop . |
25 | I 'm trying to reduce the number of business administrators : the fewer there are , the simpler the system and the cheaper it will be . ’ |
26 | So here we are , that 's what it 's like , and that 's the deepest we can go and the clearest we can get . |
27 | We found then that the bigger the objective lens was the more light could be got and the bigger you could make it , so as I got bigger and got er the chance of making my own lenses and building up lenses of various kinds , I found that I could get quite a good magnification . |
28 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
29 | All the foreign teams are in the mountain trial and the 80 who could not make the main event are in an overflow , starting 0631 hours ! |
30 | Men , he said , used to approach the nest 60 yards down on a rope , and holding a piked stick in one hand to protect themselves from the parent birds ’ attacks , with the other hand seize the eggs or chicks , the latter was a valued object and the former they could sell for 5/ each . |