Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] [pron] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave them far more money than the business was worth or than they should ever have got their hands on . |
| 2 | Jonathan do n't put in under there darling or cos she 'll never get it out . |
| 3 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
| 4 | If you would like to know what is involved in being a helper , or if you would just like to know what SPRED is all about , come along to the information evening in the sacristy on Monday Evening at 7.30 p.m . |
| 5 | Nevertheless : If a teacher has , himself , to go down into the library with the whole class , or if you can only afford a third of a teacher to be in the library at certain times , then you are quite simply restricting the amount of work that can go on . |
| 6 | their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win |
| 7 | The courts will not take the incidence of future inflation into account in calculating the dependency , but if it is established that the deceased would have increased his income in the future for reasons other than inflation ( eg because he would have been promoted if he had remained in his job or because he would probably have attained higher and better paid skills or a better paid job if he had lived ) this might give grounds for increasing the multiplicand . |
| 8 | Whether the diversity depicted above is reflected in the presence of two tests , rational basis and rightness , or whether we should simply work through the former is largely a matter of semantics . |
| 9 | Many of the children have no idea what 's happened to the rest of their families or whether they 'll ever see them again . |
| 10 | A person who is asked to take the test in circumstances such as these should pause and consider whether they are willing to do so , or whether they would instead prefer not to proceed with their life assurance or employment application . |
| 11 | This will show whether they produce a literal description , ( ‘ You lifted the teapot' ) or whether they can appropriately describe the action and its consequences non-literally ( ‘ You poured tea into the cup' ) . |
| 12 | She wondered if Miss Coldharbour had the power to sack her or whether she would simply recommend this course of action to Canon Wheeler . |
| 13 | The first contacts were being made in nuclear research — even if the British were asking themselves whether nuclear co-operation would prove a step towards a postwar international police force led by Britain and the United States , or whether it would simply result in American domination of the whole project . |
| 14 | Only general conclusions can be drawn at present because not enough is known about the parameters involved in this model ; whether the Universe will expand forever or whether it will finally contract is not yet clear . |
| 15 | Whether in the long term this will lead to a permanent increase in output , or whether it will simply lead to higher prices , is again a fiercely debated question . |
| 16 | And despite all its promise it is not yet clear whether it will pull capitalism out of its recession or whether it will only serve the interests of affluent minorities . |
| 17 | And you went to school in the morning but never knew whether your house was going to be there when you got home for dinner or whether you 'd still have a mum and dad and |
| 18 | We like to think of you not as clients , but as guests , or as you may well discover even as a part of the family . |
| 19 | It would have given us a base at least to operate from , a place where we could be contacted , and where we might even meet some of our fellow producers . |
| 20 | I would like to trace that film , but I do n't know where it is and where we could now see it . |
| 21 | This enables you to decide where your strengths lie and where you would ultimately like to work . |
| 22 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 23 | Sloane introduced her to Isaac Rand , the Demonstrator of Plants at the Physic Garden , who advised her to live near it where she would find the plants needed and where she would certainly have met Miller and Ehret . |
| 24 | Excitable children can have a similar effect , and so they may also have to be shown how to behave towards a puppy . |
| 25 | They may go several years without a cable break on the winch launching , and so they will scarcely give the possibility any thought . |
| 26 | significantly less and so you might well consider the need to use this means |
| 27 | You may even have grandchildren by that stage and so you 'll probably want to help them . |
| 28 | They only come to the surface after dark , and so you 'd never know you had then without a torch . |
| 29 | To submit any DC , DC operations privilege is required and so you should either ask your LIFESPAN Manager for this privilege or pass the DC to a suitable user with this privilege , using LIFESPAN option 2.5.0 . |
| 30 | It was a cake you never got in England , because there the milk did not have to be boiled and so you could never collect a bowlful of creamy skin from successive goes . |