Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 If the tax is not based on where people live , how will the money eventually end up with the local authority in which they live ?
2 It can access private and company bank details , weather information , news , holiday bargains and even , should the user so wish , offer a local phone number for Madame Fifi Le Whiplash ( which explains a lot of those funny adverts you see on the Peripherique these days ) .
3 Yeah I was really attracted to him but I just could not speak to him , it was awful , and like there used to be awful pauses and you 'd just go er right we 'd better get off with each other again because you ca n't bear the silence , it 's too uncomfortable so you used to , and then you go oh shit better get off with him again , it 's awful , he 's and he used to have such a , no personality at all .
4 Higher spending need not of course necessarily imply an improvement in the standard of health care provided .
5 The fact that subjects used a range of numbers may of course only reflect the demands placed on them by the experiment .
6 What I have to recognise by contrast is that even now James Joyce , born a hundred years ago , brings not unity but division , nor does this division merely reflect some such crude opposition as highbrow and lowbrow , or even informed and uninformed .
7 Why should the department suddenly have directed its policies to the benefit of the inner city ?
8 well wait a minute I 've got get me purse better make sure I 've got some money with me had n't I ? oh there 's plenty there here you are , oh do n't take your shoes off Bryony , fasten them up look , here you are if you 're carrying my bag for me
9 If you would like to share a bit of my life with me , then give me a bit of yours I will reply so do n't make me cry , get me high , and reply to SKY .
10 Nor will the switch necessarily create a more competitive banking sector in Italy .
11 The acid test of this type of guitar is to put it through a mixing desk with a totally flat EQ and let the instrument literally speak for itself .
12 Yeah well granddad better let me .
13 However the homoeopathic physician will also administer a remedy , as well as giving a prescription for the antibiotic , with instructions that should the remedy not have worked within an hour or two , the antibiotic should be obtained .
14 The Whip is an aid to reinforce the leg aid should the horse not respond .
15 A similar horror sends back the chorus far from their supposedly civilized city into a desert past where April would be again the cruellest month , as they pray ‘ let the spring not come .
16 Let mummy just watch the news then I think Playbus is coming on in a moment .
17 Movement 1 apostrophizes Music : ‘ Lovely Enchantress , Cupid 's daughter , sweet Mistress of our pastimes , what can your aid not accomplish ? ’
18 ‘ An earthquake , invasion of hostile forces , or did the jeep just break down again ? ’
19 Does the li does the light not hurt your eye !
20 Well li what what happens , does the the the crime just vanish or does it move somewhere else , do do do do the problems move around ?
21 Will my cover-drive still leave the off-side fielders rooted helplessly to the ground as the ball speeds to the boundary ?
22 Should an enemy ever bomb the High Dam , Egypt would be washed into the sea by the very waters which have created it .
23 Perhaps a name that might be borrowed for Henley should the Club ever go ahead as occasionally discussed to name its holes ?
24 Who will take over , and will the club ever enjoy the success it has enjoyed during the Clough era ?
25 A line containing a stone circle and a pre-Reformation church , for example , has sites separated by perhaps three millennium — so how could the ley ever have been set out deliberately ?
26 The evidence is undeniably circumstantial ; the rare examples of actual letting usually come in the form of licences to demise .
27 Does the analogy still hold when the magnetic material fills only part of the space ?
28 Incidentally Janet , did your piece ever come back or erm
29 Not only do the Opposition always seek to make the worst of the figures , but they would make the figures very much worse if they ever had the opportunity to put their disastrous policies into effect .
30 ‘ Could not the dowager-duchess also have entered sanctuary ? ’
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