Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creggan was more afraid than he could ever remember , and did not know where to go and what to do . |
| 2 | they see you sort of struggling so you can just do it ca n't you ? |
| 3 | Is it the communication system that is n't quite working but the support is adequate if you can simply find it ? |
| 4 | ‘ It 's extremely doubtful if I 'll ever find another comet , ’ declares Alcock . |
| 5 | Gabriel Gasbag — As thick as a proverbial brick , possesses hardly any intelligence ( it 's doubtful if she can even spell the word ) . |
| 6 | Whilst realising some of the questions do not apply to you as a potential member , it would be interesting if you could please complete , insofar as practical , the enclosed questionnaire and return it to me at |
| 7 | ‘ People like Amanda de Cadenet ( the lacklustre bimbo interest on Channel 4 's sad new youth show The Word ) who think that no one need be unemployed because they can always go and clean windows are typical . |
| 8 | ‘ People like Amanda de Cadenet ( the lacklustre bimbo interest on Channel 4 's sad new youth show The Word ) who think that no one need be unemployed because they can always go and clean windows are typical . |
| 9 | It was not clear whether he would fully regain the use of his legs . |
| 10 | But by that time four of the enemy ships were wrecks , one was aground and two of the remainder sufficiently damaged to make it doubtful whether they would ever reach their home ports — which was most evidently the hope of the survivors , as they went through the difficult , desperate business of turning in the confined space and heading back out to sea . |
| 11 | Some were doubtful whether it would actually work , but all shared a hope of something new , and all were to be given an equal chance . |
| 12 | It is doubtful whether anyone will again do the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets , achieved only twice since 1967 . |
| 13 | Restrained as he may now appear to be , his precariously balanced control might well snap as his passion mounted . |
| 14 | Though interest rates have also been very high indeed , the support which North Sea oil has given sterling has perhaps tended to stop them rising so high as they might otherwise have done . |
| 15 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 16 | The restored importance of indirect taxes , whatever its source , must , in the context of our earlier analysis , have made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 17 | The movement towards indirect taxation has therefore made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 18 | They accept that their work is less technical than they would perhaps like , but ‘ craftsmanship ’ is still possible in accurate diagnosis and illness management ( Freidson 1975 ) . |
| 19 | She felt physically fitter and more alive than she could ever remember . |
| 20 | He had gone to Rome once , maybe twice , and his relations with continental potentates were doubtless more extensive than we can now know . |
| 21 | Climbing in the rain makes you feel a lot more clever than it should rationally justify . |
| 22 | . But if it 's only a part-time so you can actually work part-time that 's the difference . |
| 23 | But both authors recognise that experience in office in the coalition government had made the Labour leaders more cautious than they would otherwise have been : Dr Marwick comments that ‘ Middle-class radicalism and official trade unionism were much stronger influences than left-wing Socialism ’ , and Dr Addison speaks of an ‘ Attlee consensus ’ to which the Conservatives , when they returned to office in 1951 , also subscribed . |
| 24 | Well they are ignorant cos I would never say which part of . |
| 25 | They seem to be a simple , happy-go-lucky folk who are content if they can merely catch a bus or two each day , and find a bit of a gap in the traffic to nip through , and survive till bedtime . |
| 26 | ‘ It was extremely dangerous because there would then have been another , hundred-foot drop off that cliff , ’ said stunt arranger Stuart Fell . |
| 27 | Thus deceived , lied to by the leaders they had trusted , in the chill , grey dawn on Friday 6 December 1745 the unbeaten Jacobite army turned its back on its objective and the long and pointless retreat — pointless because they could never hope for a better opportunity than this — began . |
| 28 | ‘ Anything more obvious would be counter-productive because everyone would just laugh . |
| 29 | So , what I would suggest is erm times is easy because you can just use an x for times small x I think . |
| 30 | This seems ironic as they will usually have boasted that they were the top sales people at their previous firms . |