Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know girls who vow they will never marry . |
| 2 | Stiffer penalties on criminals who make it wo n't stop its manufacture . |
| 3 | To find its value , attention is focused on the proportions who say they would break the law , ignoring proportions who say they would never break it ( figure 13.6 ) . |
| 4 | There are still those who say they ca n't get used to Citroen steering and that the suspension makes them sick ; there are many more who say getting used to any other sort of steering after driving a D- or C-series car is much the more difficult adaptation to make . |
| 5 | But it has upset some shopkeepers whose deliveries have been disrupted , and disabled drivers who say they ca n't get into town . |
| 6 | The firm has been put into liquidation by it 's owners , who say they ca n't afford to pay redundancy money . |
| 7 | The families of those shot at dawn , still hope that Ministers who say they wo n't rewrite history , may yet change their minds and give every victim of the great war , the same respect . |
| 8 | Among the 82 per cent who say they will definitely vote , the Conservative lead increases to two full points , with the Tories on 40 per cent and Labour on 38 per cent . |
| 9 | Supporting her , other women who say they could also lose their homes because they 're separated from their RAF husbands . |
| 10 | ‘ But I ca n't agree with the prophets of doom who say we will never qualify for the World Cup finals again . |
| 11 | But there is an action group of people opposed to it who say it should never have been given planning permission . |
| 12 | The stopped chamfer template has not to my knowledge been marketed , readers who want one will just have to make their own . |
| 13 | The trouble with anonymous contributions to this page , not that I 'm not grateful for anything I can get , is that the people who send them ca n't get a lovely Community Care mug whereas those like Nicholas Holbrook , ( see below ) who refuse to hide their creative light under a bushel , have a mug winging its way to them at this very moment . |
| 14 | The systematic study of information technology ( informatics ) is in its infancy and although there is general agreement that its potential for human progress is enormous , there is a good deal of pessimism as to the probability that those who control it will actively seek this end over their own private interests ( see Schiller , 1989 ; Journal of Communication , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | The existence of Cotherstone cheese is not widely known but that is the way the lady wants it , and those who like it can always find it . |
| 16 | At the same time , this screen , these games with and in words , can even now frighten off those readers who feel they must always know where they are when they read , or irritate those who see the games as a form of deliberate teasing or provocation . |
| 17 | If retirement does not inevitably involve economic dependency , then it is easy to see how retirement may result from a positive choice by those people who believe they will not suffer any substantially reduced ability to consume . |
| 18 | And that is completely against the wishes of both Maloney and even his own brother Dennis , who believe they could eventually get at least twice as much . |
| 19 | And that is completely against the wishes of both Frank Maloney and even his own brother Dennis , who believe they could eventually get at least twice as much . |
| 20 | I had to fight for the right to cut dresses as well as suits , to make evening dress as well as day wear and even now , when I 've proved myself in those areas , I have to fight members of my own staff who believe I should still stick to producing powerful women 's suits . |
| 21 | The escape came as no surprise to the Acre state authorities , who claim they can not afford to maintain the prison . |
| 22 | Those referred to at the beginning of this chapter , the dieters who think they ca n't shed weight on 1,000 calories a day , almost invariably belong to the can't-get-away-with-anything group and are not following the essential rules of calorie counting sufficiently strictly . |
| 23 | It has never been de rigueur for academics who rise to high places in English departments , and , conversely , students who possess it may not do well in formal examinations . |