Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Settle for free would you . |
| 2 | True , if understood to relate to candidates as persons : my third preference for Brawny can never count against my first preference for Beefy . |
| 3 | or touching it and that pad should be big enough to cover the wound , so you should something , overlaps , alright , and then if you find , if you unwrap the roll a little bit further , you do n't want to unroll it completely , your see that if while you 're using it in practice you need to roll it up again backwards towards the back of the bandage like so , we 'll roll it up again , backwards and when you get to the bandage you just fold the bandage up around the long end and wind the short end round it firmly and there it 's ready for use again in practice , you would n't of course do that for real would you ? |
| 4 | There have been repeated calls for reopening , but the destruction of many miles of trackbed would seem to make this a pipedream . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes a decision has to be made to offer no evidence during the course of the trial ; and similarly pleas of guilty may be tendered to lesser counts . |
| 6 | The jury would have no role in most homicide cases , since a plea of guilty would be the norm . |
| 7 | Instead , consider whether there is any evidence for the jury ( sufficient to require the judge to leave the case to the jury ) ; if there is , explain how the judge would direct the jury , and state whether a verdict of guilty would be likely to be upheld or upset on appeal . |
| 8 | The appellant appealed on the ground that the co-defendant 's plea of guilty should have been excluded by the trial judge in the exercise of his discretion under section 78(1) of the 1984 Act . |
| 9 | Further , members of MAS should not conclude on the appropriateness of a course of action under consideration ; the firm must maintain an independent and objective attitude throughout the engagement . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it has been suggested that , unlike HBsAg , the pre-S peptides do not undergo the spontaneous budding process ; rather the initiation of budding might be triggered by interaction with the nucleocapsid or matric components of the virus . |
| 11 | As some people join , others leave so that even though the total number of unemployed may have remained unchanged from one month to the next , the composition of that unemployment may have changed considerably . |
| 12 | As the Minority Report put it : ‘ The national Authority dealing with the able-bodied requires … what we might almost term a Human Sorting House , where each man 's faculties would be tested to see what could be made of him ; and a series of Training Establishments , to one or other of which the heterogeneous residuum of Unemployed would be assigned . ’ |
| 13 | Many of the millions of unemployed will also have trouble in finding the cash for this particular commitment . |
| 14 | You can get a pint of fresh could n't you for tech tomorrow ? |
| 15 | On this argument higher rates of self-financing would lead to the artificial depression of sales and to under -investment in electricity , precisely the opposite of ‘ crowding out ’ . |
| 16 | If you look at yourself in the mirror , no amount of willing can remove er , fat around your waist . |
| 17 | The personal , social and physical consequences of ageing will , in turn , lead to both ‘ objective outcomes ’ and ‘ subjective outcomes ’ which relate to the meaning of such experiences to the individual . |
| 18 | Anyone in United 's famous championship sides of old would have been delighted to have scored the goal Kanchelskis produced at Old Trafford last night . |
| 19 | The Gazza of old would have been tempted to flick that ball in the air and juggle away an outstanding chance for his team . |
| 20 | If anything , the Sylvie of old would have preferred a noisy wake , frenetic dancing , a bacchic rite . |
| 21 | Welcome back : In a few minutes , those motorbikes of old will be firing up again . |
| 22 | The Gorbals of old could be compared with parts of Stepney and Whitechapel , or the Bowery and Bronx of New York City . |
| 23 | Of free will I chose to fly to India , taking as my travelling companions a stallion and two mares , in the back of a decrepit Boeing 707 on its third time round the clock . |
| 24 | Hence the definition of wept will contain the brief description that it is the past tense of weep thereby informing the reader where to seek further information . |
| 25 | Indeed , the powerful imagery of pastoral will often suggest that the true location of the golden age lies in pre-industrial Merrie England — a traditional lament that was already well established in Queen Victoria 's golden era . |
| 26 | Because they are so pervasive , and because their subordinate terms remain so powerfully denigrated , the erotics of active/passive should not be identified as coextensive with masculine/feminine , and should not be thought identical across the hetero/homosexual divide . |
| 27 | Simply expressed , the accountability , or responsibility , of single-party government to the people a responsibility that has been of the very essence of our system of parliamentary democracy-would be rendered less likely with proportional representation . |
| 28 | Likewise , the behaviour of galore should receive a historical explanation of exactly the same sort , being derived from the Gaelic gu leòr , an adverbial phrase that can be translated literally as to sufficiency . |
| 29 | The growing number of elderly will put strains on pensions , social security and health services in developed countries , Geoffrey Hobbs , a senior planner with ICI , told the ‘ Exploring the Future ’ conference in London . |
| 30 | This probably reflects the effect of high male mortality rates resultant from the major wars and it should not therefore be assumed that future cohorts of elderly will continue to illustrate this extreme gender imbalance . |