Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With infrasound , their auditory maps could extent for hundreds of kilometres around their home . |
| 2 | Only in a very few cases can incompleteness be acceptable . |
| 3 | The stretcher across the back of the chair will similarly have angled shoulders , but not necessarily at the same angle as the seat rail , as the back legs may taper away towards the bottom ; indeed they generally do . |
| 4 | I mean , there ca n't possibly be any hope now that some survivors may surface . ’ |
| 5 | Blake 's mathematical models predict that dolphins , killer whales and even some penguins can porpoise . |
| 6 | You would drop them , bang them , let the rain dampen them , but every night you 'd pull them through and oil them , then every time you squeezed the trigger the boring old things would fin . |
| 7 | Was there a chance that those painful feelings could surface once more if she met him again ? |
| 8 | What sort of remedial techniques can parents use ? |
| 9 | Then thinking , What if fresh relics should chance to get a million or so volts up them ? |
| 10 | Top temperatures will reahc just seven to nine celsius , that 's forty five to forty eight fahrenheit , and there 'll be a moderate northwesterly wind . |
| 11 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 12 | Outside readers could thumb through the paper and brood on the bread that was doubtless being baked and stashed away by the one-time cultural revolutionaries of It . |
| 13 | In a world of dubious economic statistics , changes in the official reserves must rate as one of the most unreliable indicators . |
| 14 | Only in the most favourable circumstances could towns away from the coast or navigable rivers grow to much of a size , a condition emphasised by Adam Smith . |
| 15 | The notions of ‘ blame ’ and ‘ fault ’ are further values which unsupported workers can trip over unless they are explicitly addressed within policy and practice guidelines . |
| 16 | Individual families could farm plots of land leased from the state and sell any surpluses in local markets . |
| 17 | It would n't tell you how many swallows , it would tell you how many lots of six swallows would east that . |
| 18 | In only one of nine such volunteers could CTL be grown , again only to the ls6 peptide , suggesting that CTL may be more readily detectable in areas of higher malaria transmission . |
| 19 | The following Drinks Can Banks will be opened in Summer 1991 |
| 20 | We could ask , for example : what sort of personal sacrifices might people have to make in order to reduce pollution ? |
| 21 | It is quite appropriate that moral philosophers should group together children and madmen as beings not fully responsible for their actions , for as madmen are thought to lack freedom of choice , so children do not yet possess the power of reason in a developed form . |
| 22 | Such closures would hinge on three conditions . |
| 23 | Because of the chemical affinity of G for C ( and of C for G ) , one of these molecules will pair , as shown in the figure , with the first codon on the message . |
| 24 | Small companies do not have the option of " buying-in " specialist skills to which their larger brethren can resort . |
| 25 | Individuals , families , and small or large groups can book in advance either by coming in person to the Ice Bowl or by telephoning ( 0232 ) 482611 . |
| 26 | Only by restoring the confidence of these sectors can crime control by the police be successful , and the prerequisite of this is democratic accountability to local communities . |
| 27 | Only by extending the application of safety counter-measures beyond tiny groups of houses and to large districts can safety be achieved across whole residential areas rather than in fragments of them . |
| 28 | The main emphasis is on the various ways that these relationships may pattern and establish expectations and opportunities for different individuals . |
| 29 | In common with other urban wasteland these sites may sport such species as buddleia ( Buddleia davidii ) , Oxford ragwort ( Senecio squalidus ) and Canadian fleabane ( Conyza canadensis ) . |
| 30 | A score of under 40 would indicate a very high investment risk , and so only in unusual circumstances would investment be worthwhile . |