Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 WIGAN boss John Monie has warned British rugby league : ‘ Get your act together or you 'll never be world champions . ’
2 Or it could simply be activity in the digestive tract .
3 ‘ If I knew my future and that I would never be No 1 I think I 'd tell myself to forget it .
4 On the statement emphasising that she could still be Queen , he said : ‘ The situation is very volatile .
5 The unlucky 4–0 defeat at home to Alborne showed great promise for the future and if it had not been a mathematical impossibility since the beginning of October , I would have said that playing like that we should still be promotion contenders .
6 This does not mean that we can not be friends with an unbeliever — obviously , we can not reach people for Christ if we insulate ourselves from non-Christian company .
7 And they have a far greater proportion of the Greater York area than we do , erm as I outlined we just have three relatively modest villages , erm our , we do have a concern erm , on this , in that we do n't ac , given there 's a a district and an area have not be identified , we do n't feel that there has been a comparative assessment of the two options , we do n't dispute that they may well be harm er from peripheral development around other distric , around settlements in other districts , we acknowledged other other District Council 's concerns , and indeed , these are arguments we have used ourselves on the scale of development in Hambledon , er but we do n't feel that there has been a properly balanced assessment of the two options .
8 The words used also usually say that the auditors are to act as experts and not as arbitrators , and the commercial tradition is that they should not be arbitrators .
9 In particular , they do not worry that they will never be chairmen of the parent companies .
10 The oral shield has an irregular shape , although it may sometimes be hourglass shaped , and extends from the oral frame on to the interradial area .
11 Folly threw on a dressing-gown and hurried through to answer it , praying that it would n't be Luke .
12 She could tell by the angle of the light that it would soon be sunset , and the prospect of being here in the dark appalled her .
13 Now he sat by the fire with his whisky , a drink he did not care for , making conversation with Tony and hoping that it would soon be time for bed .
14 If I asked a question of him then he 'd answer seriously , but if I floated a question and waited to see which of the students would pick it up I could guarantee that it would never be Holly .
15 At this point a wag from the back of the large audience called out " the only trouble is that it would only be 2½″ long ! "
16 It was some moments before it occurred to any of them that it might well be Chris or the tardy boy from the bistro , harmlessly appealing for admission to his promised evening of jollity and sustenance .
17 With my father agreeing to give me £2,000 , and adding , ‘ This is the third plane ticket I 've bought for that man ’ , I flew back to England and finished painting the house white , thanking God that I liked the art nouveau and Edwardian furniture David had been buying , because otherwise it could have been tricky , having received the letter and realising that it might actually be love , it might actually be something serious going on .
18 The Committee therefore proposes the enactment of a statutory provision which will clearly state that rape is committed where a woman consents to sexual intercourse as a result of threats of force , explicit or implicit , against the woman herself or any other person , ‘ but that it should not be rape if , taking a reasonable view , the threats were not capable of being carried out immediately . ’
19 The character table for C 3 ν ; the point group concerned , shows that this vibration must therefore be totally symmetric , of a 1 symmetry species , and that it will also be Raman active .
20 When Al Pacino made Kate Nelligan squeeze her feet into gold stilettos throughout intercourse in Frankie and Johnny , the audience knew instinctively that it could n't be love .
21 He did n't seem to know what it was himself , but she knew that it could n't be love , and if it was n't love then none of the other possibilities mattered .
22 Tretorn , in filing its complaint , believes that the EC Commission 's lawyers may have missed the significance of the word in dispute ( ‘ type ’ ) because the LTA 's previous ball agreement , ( ie the one that the EC Commission was asked to consider ) contained no written reference to pressureless tennis balls , therefore ensuring that it could not be party to such vital information .
23 I believe that he committed himself to assuring that he would never be party to such a thing again if he could prevent it .
24 I 'd asked that he should n't be bottle fed with my expressed milk as it can be more difficult to establish breastfeeding if a baby is confused by a teat .
25 He was avid for news of how it was all going , and regretting that he could n't be part of it .
26 United visit Villa Park , and Atkinson wistfully linked the past with the present when he said : ‘ If I 'd had Dean Saunders at United , we would have won the Championship and I might still be manager of Manchester United . ’
27 ‘ And you and I wo n't be part of it . ’
28 You and I will always be friends . ’
29 My goodness , if I could only be God for a short time-even half a day ! — then I 'd be content to be St Peter for ever after ! "
30 And you wo n't be part of it for much longer .
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