Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [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 | Quite apart from the fact that no one in their right mind would nickname that woman ‘ Sexy ’ , I would have recognised her voice . |
| 3 | A secretariat staffer involved with the latter says multinational industry should police itself . |
| 4 | It would not be long before some driver would chance on the scene and phone the local police . |
| 5 | They say that , even if the case for exploring legalisation were conceded by governments , public resistance would doom the idea . |
| 6 | Only in a very few cases can incompleteness be acceptable . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I mean , there ca n't possibly be any hope now that some survivors may surface . ’ |
| 9 | Blake 's mathematical models predict that dolphins , killer whales and even some penguins can porpoise . |
| 10 | But there is no doubt players outside the top bracket would back strike action all the way . |
| 11 | Anyone finding this equipment should hand it in to police . |
| 12 | Only on this basis can people make the informed choice which is the hallmark of the educated person . |
| 13 | If the questions that come to PFK are any indication , compatibility problems with marine fish must rate as the single most difficult area to master and overcome . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She also feared that early sexual disaster in this relationship would doom it . |
| 16 | Was there a chance that those painful feelings could surface once more if she met him again ? |
| 17 | If anyone is interested i could post excerpts from an article sent to rec.sport.soccer which sums up the norwegains playing in Premiership — in fact we have the largest contigent of players from outside the British Isles right now . |
| 18 | What sort of remedial techniques can parents use ? |
| 19 | As there are only a finite number of edge pieces and the process RU can take only one edge piece into a new ‘ edge piece ’ position , this sequence must cycle back to the beginning and we denote this ‘ 7-cycle ’ as ( FR , UF , UL , UB , UR , BR , DR ) . |
| 20 | In ‘ What 's In Your Life For Me ? ’ or ‘ And I Do n't Love You ’ or ‘ Into Each Rain Some Life Must Fall ’ or a score of others , Smokey thinks through the problems of modern love and squeezes music out of them that drips like honey from a spoon . |
| 21 | Then thinking , What if fresh relics should chance to get a million or so volts up them ? |
| 22 | ( b ) Discuss the merits and demerits of using this form of note to reveal the ways historical information can inter-connect ( e.g. the direction of the relationship ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Only in this way can opportunities for vertical integration and strategic cooperation between organisations be investigated . |
| 26 | Only in this way could Britain , competing in a world of emerging economic giants , ‘ keep her place as a Great Power ’ . |
| 27 | So many men had been killed or wounded in the war , that it would be ten years before another generation would fin the gaps . |
| 28 | Lee decided that this guy would caddie one day and me the next , and he would assess for himself who would carry his bag . |
| 29 | With extra duty on these goods , prices on the High Street would rocket . |
| 30 | Prestatyn , poised to snatch top spot should Marchwiel and Bangor slip up , have named an unchanged line-up for their derby date with St Asaph . |