Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pron] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a radius of ten miles of West Challow there are at least half a dozen houses that look so similar to this that they must surely have been built by the same hand . |
| 2 | Some of those primitive men are so good at this that they can exactly imitate the different animals , and even other human beings . |
| 3 | As for breast feeding , I feel so strongly about this that I can hardly express myself ! |
| 4 | There is the er the other way of looking at this that you can either change the er sort of C O balance or you can give her some clerical time , because if she can identify clerical work I mean like Diane |
| 5 | The team will be working on items for this and they will also present two items at an International Festival of Movement to be held in Edinburgh next April . |
| 6 | As she toyed with a pottery unicorn made by Leonora during her stay in Bart 's , Lady Romsey added : ‘ When we knew she was n't going to survive we said , ‘ We will get through this and we will still thank Bart 's . |
| 7 | ‘ Here — drink this and you 'll soon feel a great deal better , ’ he added , walking across the room towards her . |
| 8 | I wish I 'd got some cos I could really do with a hot drink . |
| 9 | You could fire a starting pistol next to some and they would barely look up . |
| 10 | In stratigraphy One is always using one ruler to measure another and one can only call a deposit exceptional if we have something more " normal " with which one can make a comparison . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’ |
| 12 | Erm , I 'm on this occasion I 'll keep as close to this as I can possibly go . |
| 13 | The extraordinary factor in such debates is that at the end of them we get the feeling that there is little that we can actually do to alter the course of events . |
| 14 | The tendency to translate English passive structures literally into a variety of target languages which either have no passive voice as such or which would normally use it with less frequency is often criticized by linguists and by those involved in training translators . |
| 15 | I think we will continue to have a degree of volatility in markets we 've not experienced previously and I think the way the market maker has to interpret his role now is such that we will never get the sort of fine tuning that the old jobbing system could provide . |
| 16 | During the year , strong management of the balance sheet has been maintained to ensure that our financial health is such that we will quickly benefit from any sustained improvement in our markets . |
| 17 | Or , put another way , are the Powell conditions too tough — tough not just for Americans , but for those , like Bosnia 's Muslims , whose plight is such that they can plausibly look only to America for salvation ? |
| 18 | The capacity of CFS Aeroengines is such that they can now offer their services on a worldwide basis and are set to take a larger slice of the redial engine business by offering a ‘ one stop ’ service from mags , to props , to accessories , to whole powerplants . |
| 19 | The Roman refining techniques were such that they could easily have produced silver containing only traces of copper ( under 1 per cent ) . |
| 20 | The impact of technology is such that you can now do by electronic means a lot of things which were previously done by middle managers — collecting information , processing it , manipulating it in various ways : shunting it around the organisation . ’ |
| 21 | The pain in my left hand is such that I can hardly bear to look at it . |
| 22 | After a period of experimenting with designs and acoustics , Nigel has now developed his techniques to a high level such that he can now calculate , and fabricate steam whistles to virtually any specific combination of notes he requires . |
| 23 | The " correct " way of constructing a building could never be such that it would immediately fall down when it was completed . |
| 24 | Suppose that the quality of the raw material is such that it will reliably perform millions of operations per second for many years without wear , fatigue , fracture or other error . |
| 25 | The external demands on government are such that it can often act only as arbiter between competing demands and respond , under guidance from civil servants , to international events and trends over which it has no direct influence . |
| 26 | You should get there at all costs , because it is an absolutely astonishing place , but the nature of the spectacle is such that it can only work on you properly if the cirque is not being mobbed ; it demands a certain loneliness , and on afternoons in July and August , for instance , the coaches are said to have to queue before they can get into the village of Gavarnie . |
| 27 | Pins and needles can even hurt so much that we would almost prefer to let the leg sleep on . |
| 28 | This account of knowledge seems to disqualify much that we might ordinarily count as such . |
| 29 | She was shaking so much that she could barely speak . |
| 30 | Lakes and mountains , beaches and islands , friendly hotels and Renaissance grandeur , there is honestly so much that you will simply have to come and see us year after year . |