Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before yesterday 's game , both sets of supporters , who won plaudits for their rapport at the 1985 League Cup final , joined in a chorus of You 'll Never Walk Alone the Liverpool supporters ' anthem . |
| 2 | At the other extreme he sometimes pushed his boys into bed with girls in order to make himself suffer , though a part of him may also have enjoyed the proximity or heterosexual life . |
| 3 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 4 | This means that actors are expected to be able to control any regional or foreign accent which is natural to them , and deliver a text in what may best be called ‘ the classical style ’ . |
| 5 | Then , holding everything else constant so far as we can , we form a judgement about what will most probably happen . |
| 6 | In June of that year Eliot met a figure from what must now have seemed to the London banker a remote part of his life . |
| 7 | Although there have been few studies of public opinion and corporate crime ( Cullen et al. 1982 ; Newman 1957 ; Reed and Reed 1975 ; Rossi et al. 1974 ; Schrager and Short 1980 ; Sinden 1980 ; Wolfgang 1980 ) , they do provide a window on what can best be described as ‘ collective ignorance ’ . |
| 8 | A particularly tight swarm hummed around Mme Andre Malraux , widow of France 's first Minister of Culture , admiring a group of what could politely be called doodles by her late husband at prices between £100 and £800 . |
| 9 | Only that intelligent people can surely accept that a man who has a job like mine can accidentally forget that his wife is giving a dinner party without immediately assuming his lapse is due to lack of concern for her . ’ |
| 10 | A person like me can easily get lost there — and I did ! |
| 11 | A quarter of them will no longer exist in the budget . |
| 12 | That is both a misreading of what European Union implies , even if the Maastricht treaties go forward ; and , because Maastricht is unravelling , it is a misreading of what will now happen . |
| 13 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 14 | ‘ There ai n't no trains out , around that time ; and a gent like him would hardly hang about in a station buffet ! |
| 15 | He landed in a heap of what might once have been straw . |
| 16 | Others verge on the bizarre — what , for instance , is the significance of : ‘ A love like ours could never die' ? |
| 17 | To be meaningful the vision must be a detailed one , a vision of what will actually be happening in his area at 9.00 a.m. on Monday morning in two years ' time to achieve success . |
| 18 | They had initiated an experimental effort to pioneer a form of what may best be called developmental social care . |
| 19 | A bird that thought so and decided to make a meal of it would quickly die . |
| 20 | In order that the transferor be relieved from liability in respect of lack of repair prior to the transfer ( see p32 ) express mention to that effect should be made in the transfer , a copy of which might prudently be retained to avoid asking the registrar to exercise his discretion under r290 above . |
| 21 | They were required to choose one of three mortgage valuations ; a basic valuation to enable the society to assess the adequacy of the security offered , pursuant to the duty imposed on societies by section 13(1) of the Act of 1986 , a copy of which would normally be provided for the borrower on payment of a fee ; a house buyers ' valuation containing a fuller report , for which the borrower paid a higher fee ; or a full structural survey . |
| 22 | The IAEA has issued a press statement on the latest inspection , the ninth , a copy of which will also be placed in the Library . |
| 23 | There is a chain of contracts and a breach of one may well cause a chain reaction , i.e. a breach of each of the others see paragraph 9–05 above . |
| 24 | And in pursuit of that perspective , that outlook the Communist Party launched a series of what can only be described as ad adventurist er attacks on the new Kuomintang authorities . |