Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before they lost Richard Biddle with a hamstring injury , the Quakers looked like they could actually match the ex-Premier League side and for a time they promised to take the lead . |
| 2 | Everything look alright again , and then the weather worsened and the attempt looked like it would never happen . |
| 3 | Clearly the realities of space flight from 1957 on ( manned , from 1961 ) made fantasy outdated unless it could visually match or outdistance such scientific advances . |
| 4 | Another aspect of Qaddafi 's theory of democracy is that parties were forbidden because they could only represent , and could represent only sectors of the people . |
| 5 | Perhaps the time has come when we should humbly admit our limitations and seek solutions in co-operation with the Master Plan . |
| 6 | Maybe the time has come when they will now pass on the secret that they have so jealously guarded . |
| 7 | They said he was unwilling to show them the evidence he had been given so they could adequately prepare their case for the parents . |
| 8 | A septic tank is an open system and depends on being sited where it can eventually discharge into a natural watercourse or soakaway . |
| 9 | Had they done so they would certainly have greatly accelerated the rate at which they colonised the land . |
| 10 | I should be obliged if you would now take the appropriate steps to have the recoveries examined or alternatively to authorise their return . |
| 11 | He said that he would publish the book without a single alteration and that he would be obliged if I would kindly call him to discuss details . |
| 12 | In Book I , Chapter 3 , Section 3 of his A System of Logic ( written before he had decided that a quality is simply a sensation regarded in a certain relation ) he distinguishes between a sensation and a quality , a distinction which , he feels , may be missed because we can seldom refer to the sensation otherwise than by a circumlocution , for example , by reference to the quality , as when we call a sensation ‘ the sensation of white ’ . |
| 13 | Equally worrying is the fact that deaf people are effectively disenfranchised because they can neither get access to nor take part in the political debate . |
| 14 | In a recent interview with The Spectator Lord Denning , former Master of the Rolls — one of the highest judicial positions in England — commented that he felt the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six should have been hung because everyone would then have forgotten about them . |
| 15 | Pyramid , which currently offers some MIPS-based Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG boxes lower down its line , apparently has n't decided whether it will actually offer its new R4000 architecture as one of its own products yet . |
| 16 | She brought a bowl from the cupboard and filled it with water from the kettle , there were chores to be done before she could even begin to make a meal for the three of them . |
| 17 | Two questions must be answered before we can logically determine how we are going to handle any of our assets . |
| 18 | The details of the model are adjusted until it can simultaneously yield values acceptably close to the observed values of : the equatorial radius ( usually at 1 bar ) ; the mean density ; the axial rotation rate ; J 2 ; J 4 ; and the radiation excess . |
| 19 | He had n't suggested the film might not come out although she could n't have had time to develop it yet and she was n't working through a ‘ friend ’ sent round to sympathise with him deplore the whole thing and assure him it could be stopped if he 'd only tell that terrible woman one little thing … ’ — And since I 'm not married or anything I thought I 'd stick to the personal angle . |
| 20 | It highlights any word misspelt or letters transcribed so he can then correct them . |
| 21 | The Musée Basque has rooms also devoted to the game of pelota , which is a more various one in terms of the equipment its players either do use or have sometimes used than you would otherwise guess ; to the centuries of Basque whaling ; to witchcraft , for which and for its vicious suppression there was a vogue in the Basque country in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 22 | Seven thousand injuries and many of these could be avoided if we will only take reasonable and proper precautions that we should do . |
| 23 | Imagine the concentration needed if you could fully understand only one person at a time , the person you could see . |
| 24 | It is true enough that one could not start one 's language learning from the laws of physics and logic ; much is needed before we can even begin to understand these . |
| 25 | But it may be that more fundamental changes to the present institutional arrangements for audit will be needed before we can realistically expect auditors to be proactive in assessing and reporting on business risk . |
| 26 | ‘ Absurdity ’ would be reached when we can only afford a one-ship navy , a one-tank army and a one-bomber air force ! |
| 27 | Obviously he did not make himself known so we can only speculate as to who he was watching , but we are all hoping that Trevor Proby will soon get the call . |
| 28 | They had parted in a friendly enough way , promising to see each other from time to time , but Jenna very much doubted if it would ever happen . |
| 29 | However , the distances to the galaxies are not very well known because we can only measure them indirectly . |
| 30 | When those surveyed were asked if they would definitely vote , the Conservatives were two points ahead , with 40 per cent compared to 38 for Labour and 19½ for the Liberal Democrats . |