Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on a par with the rest of their good fortune that night — save the missing of Balliol himself — for nothing could more assist their project than to drive hosts of panic-stricken and riderless horses before them through the sleeping camp . |
| 2 | These are things which we already have , and to write about them can only be a celebration of past triumphs , an exercise in quasi-historical complacency : " how the battle for democracy was won " . |
| 3 | The sums that will pass through them ought surely to enhance their prestige , and at a symbolic time . |
| 4 | the the deputies had prepared er they 'd er there 'd be a stall say erm n n nineties or like that might be , and the order for them would probably be , Twelve four foot props , and twelve bars , you see ? |
| 5 | The programme that is devised for them will usually be geared largely towards communication skills and will probably include craft , drama , and life skills which thus serve a dual function . |
| 6 | But time-wise the gap between them may well be much more important than the time-span within them . |
| 7 | She had only ever loved one man — and tomorrow the barrier that stood between them would finally be removed , when Anna married another . |
| 8 | The choice between them should thus rest entirely on simplicity of key — the piece as a whole with all its modulations and sectional key-changes being taken into consideration . |
| 9 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 10 | The flashes of hostility between them could only make things worse . |
| 11 | Now however Ludens had stepped for a moment inside the charmed circle , and things between them could never be the same again . |
| 12 | It follows that any increase in the militancy of trade unions which intensifies the competition between them will also tend to raise the rate of inflation . |
| 13 | For , ‘ trust between a company and its external auditors is very important and interposing another committee between them will only make the relationship fraught ’ . |
| 14 | A love such as his could never be ‘ untimely ’ and ‘ indelicate ’ . |
| 15 | And that 's when , you see during I can just remember previous to the war them coming there and then of course during the war there was very very few of them on the road then and then after the war they started to come back and that 's when this Billy and Harry and that came up from the side . |
| 16 | Access to this flood of information about ourselves will eventually transform medical practice , and the first signs of this are already apparent . |
| 17 | Present evidence suggests that the numbers of the elderly who will find difficulties in looking after themselves will therefore increase : for example , about 20 per cent of the 80-and-over group are likely to suffer from dementia ( Grundy , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | After what could only be described as a very spirited fight a small but brilliantly coloured koi of about 7lb came to the net and I remember looking at it with disbelief that such a small fish could have pulled so hard . |
| 19 | l he general conclusion reached here was that any attempt to get behind the early church 's proclamation of Jesus to what Jesus himself had actually believed about himself could only be built on psychological conjecture and historical guesswork . |
| 20 | Does n't listen to a word I say , like , the women 's no good cos I told some things about which would really made yet more of his hair fall of the top of his bald head , I said I said look , a working women needs a working man to help support herself and her children , I said , er no , nobody is going to be able these days , a woman not going to be able to support herself on twenty hours a week , which is what Karen does , putting out bread in the Asda . |
| 21 | He conceived of mind and matter as two substances , the relation between which can only be a causal one . |
| 22 | The " Sunday Times " went to the extreme of publishing a " dummy " first edition to mislead the authorities on the night it broke the " spycatcher " revelations in Britain , but such devices are unavailable to television and radio programmes , the advance publicity for which will generally put the Attorney-General 's office on notice of a potentially embarrassing " leak " . |
| 23 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 24 | He hurried back to the Limousin and completed a piece of business , negotiations for which must already have been in train . |
| 25 | For Approved Social Workers who may well be consulted under the s.58 ( consent to treatment ) provision of the Mental Health Act , clozapine presents a number of ethical issues , including , most importantly , the forcible treatment of patients with the drug , some of whom may also be forced to give blood against their will , in a stretching of common law interpretations relating to non psychiatric medical interventions . |
| 26 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 27 | There were also apprentice schools attached to large manufacturers such as the Metropolitan-Vickers Apprentice School in Trafford Park , Manchester , which offered a dedicated form of secondary education for apprentices with that large electrical engineering firm , some of whom would also in due course seek employment with other electrical manufacturers . |
| 28 | Indeed , such an academic structure might provide a good opportunity for the exercise suggested by Graff , in which students ( many of whom would probably be women ) would consider a feminist anthology of women poets of the past , and discuss how far they are admissible into the existing poetic canon , and what theoretical criteria might govern such admission . |
| 29 | The payment of social security benefits to millions of people , most of whom would otherwise have little or no income , injects massive amounts of money into the economy . |
| 30 | The Money Study Group ( MSG ) aims to bring together academic and professional economists , many of whom would otherwise be working in isolation . |