Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet sound will always be part of any future media , and I am pleased that sound recordings have reached such high technical and aesthetic standards after only one century of history . |
| 32 | Artificial insemination by donor ( AID ) , i.e. by a man other than the husband , can be used to achieve fertility where the husband lacks spermatozoa , or is otherwise infertile , or if the husband is a carrier of a genetic disease with a high chance of its being transmitted to a child ; alternatively the husband and wife may both be carriers of the same recessive gene , so that each act of fertilization would have a 25 per cent chance of giving rise to a diseased child . |
| 33 | On the best brown leather shoes , the colour should ideally be hand antiqued in a succession of oil treatments to create a sophisticated patina . |
| 34 | The keynote should always be flexibility and adaptability . |
| 35 | They are now joint second with Torbrex , but the dark horses in the title race could yet be Edinburgh Civil Service who easily beat Touche Ross 4-1 with comparative ease but while Grange overcame bottom side Stepps 4-2 this was possibly their worst performance of the season . |
| 36 | Barring disasters , thinks Mr Stanislaw , the price could soon be $15 a barrel or less , not the $40-plus that was once feared . |
| 37 | The first rehearsals of an opéra would often be chaos if his talents , or activity , did not clarify the performance . |
| 38 | The first service would probably be Project Cyclone , the gestating international extension of the UK public switched network , over which the company would run its International Virtual Network service . |
| 39 | The minimum excess will however be $50 in all cases . |
| 40 | The mainframe will soon be history , the AS/400 is still worth saving , but time is desperately short . |
| 41 | Under the influence of its Enlightenment men the American constitution may formally be secularist , but the history of America demonstrates that it is the most religious continent in the Western world . |
| 42 | The insistence that Cnut intended Harthacnut to succeed to his entire kingdom may also be suspect , given the succession dispute which followed his death . |
| 43 | The most delightful volume must surely be Sir James M Barrie 's original autograph manuscript of Peter Pan . |
| 44 | The post-holder will also be involved in the preparations for the next HEFCE research assessment exercise ; this will include questions relating to the establishment of a publications database , and candidates for this appointment should therefore be computer literate . |
| 45 | Now when the exporter exchanges the Deutschmarks for sterling the rate might well be £1=DM2.95 giving a rate of return of £33 898.31 only , £2465.33 less than expected , or alternatively just below 7 per cent less than expected . |
| 46 | The movement of this reminds me of er stage set and the figures on the bench could almost be actors and actresses and with the figure at the bottom here , the male at the bottom , well its not quite at bottom , tucked away at the side there , he , he , he looks like erm , like a harlequin figure , maybe a mischief maker , er I , I felt there was a lot of fun in this painting and a lot of erm , er gravado and , and stage specs , that kind of thing , so this poem is called for obvious reasons People Of The Nile , and I 'll read it twice , probably be the best way Ancient people drawn on a vase , tell a tale , warn a friend , man dressed in red holds back a curtain , over hears and tells , they are gossiping people , playing Chinese whispers , so I , I , I quite wanted to give that er a , a contemporary updated feel , erm , I read that again for the people who may of just seen the picture at the back People Of The Nile , Ancient people drawn on a vase , tell a tale , warn a friend , man dressed in red holds back a curtain , over hears and tells , they are gossiping people , playing chinese whispers , erm , the next one , we 'll have to put you on wheels I think |
| 47 | Her first impression of the man she knew with a sinking feeling could only be Niall Grant was of strong , sun-tanned features which held her gaze as the blue eyes looked coolly into hers , and for the first time in her life her height , which at five feet eight inches had given her an advantage over a lot of men , suddenly seemed diminished . |
| 48 | Another example could well be Peter Brooke who , though not having quite the same entrepreneurial approach , certainly had the business instincts and connections to build a significant position for Spencer Stuart in the UK , principally among the more traditional British organisations . |
| 49 | Your velocity would now be D S by D T. |
| 50 | The pensioner couple , who even after the uprating will still be £25 a week worse off , will remember him . |
| 51 | The consequence has been to diminish the credibility of both ; for nobody can have any confidence that what either of them says one week will still be government policy the next . |
| 52 | The maximum length permitted for two cuffs and a linking chain will now be 240mm . |
| 53 | In evaluating its credentials our prime example will again be Rawls ' theory . |
| 54 | The exact origins of the ferret can only be guesswork , but either descendants of the polecat line or variations on the resultant interbreeding between stoats and polecats may have given us the ferret we know today . |
| 55 | Archie would probably be Wilko 's first choice given his preference for older players , but may settle on the younger version . |
| 56 | Just as the higher law of life stops an apple held in my hand from obeying the law of gravity to which it would otherwise be subject , so the law ( as he daringly calls it ) of the Spirit overcomes the sin death principle to which the Christian would otherwise be subject . |
| 57 | The latest date possible for the upper house election would then be August 13th . |
| 58 | Answer two : a crime novel may still be crime fiction , as opposed to pure fiction , even if it abandons altogether that prime staple of blueprint detective fiction , the murder puzzle . |
| 59 | If the file were made up of documents , books or papers the overall classification would probably be based on subject , and the order within subject might well be accession date . |
| 60 | Even with fees added on , the final bill would still be £500,000 less than anticipated . |