Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also a mite expensive , although you should bear in mind that retail prices are deceptive things ; the chances are that after a period of high demand and correspondingly high prices , the cost of the SRV will settle down to around the same as the Clapton Strat . |
| 2 | If it does not , the TPC will make its own recommendations . |
| 3 | He knows that the rock that crushed the skull of his great friend John Taylor when the two of them were swept away in a blizzard on the Ben could have finished him instead , but he deals with it calmly . |
| 4 | We steered away from neutrality and headed for the magnificence of the Alps in the moonlight ; I always wondered if the Stirling would clear the Matterhorn and it always did with plenty to spare . |
| 5 | Soon Alison would know , the Carters would know , everyone would know , and once they knew they would cut me dead . |
| 6 | The portraits were hung outside the hospital on all feast days so that the Milanese could admire their benefactors and those portrayed could bask in the glory of it all . |
| 7 | All in the TAS would receive one . |
| 8 | ‘ But … but I thought the NME could handle this , ’ I stuttered in reply . |
| 9 | The VCR can play a tape of one standard , either NTSC or PAL , display it on any PAL or NSTC TV set , and make a copy onto any other VCR in either PAL or NTSC . |
| 10 | That Atlantis was discussed in the Timaeus may have been significant , but it was not crucial . |
| 11 | A word from the Admiral in the ear of the Pentagon might work wonders . ’ |
| 12 | If last year 's congressional deliberations are any guide , R&D should recoup some of the losses in programmes unpopular with the White House , and defence wo n't get everything the Pentagon would like — in effect , lopping off the extreme fluctuations while maintaining the basic thrust of the White House economic philosophy . |
| 13 | The Pentagon would have been furious at losing an agent as well as a major mission , but there was little or nothing it could say or do to put things right without acknowledging that Coleman was an agent and thereby admitting that , for the better part of two years , the DIA had been spying , not on the country 's official enemies , but on other agencies of the United States government . |
| 14 | However co-operative the Pentagon may wish to be , the American industrial lobby in Congress usually intervenes at a late stage to protect its own narrow interests and the projects collapse . |
| 15 | The Pentagon can clear anything they want . |
| 16 | ‘ The Pentagon could have the answer . |
| 17 | I am sure , sir , that the Pentagon could provide some illumination on this subject . ’ |
| 18 | Henry continued to place the puppets in folds of Christmas paper and lay them in their boxes as he said , ‘ It 'll be like last year ; the Lord of the Manor will have bought her so much that everybody else 's presents will be eclipsed . ’ |
| 19 | However where repetition is needed the LM will allow more control particularly in longstanding or deeper states . |
| 20 | It is also hoped that the EEC may have some positive move to make towards more vigilant preservation of our countryside . |
| 21 | Each state in the Soviet equivalent of the EEC would specialize in producing certain things for the general good . |
| 22 | By 1956 Britain had become concerned about the impact the EEC would have on its own economy and political role . |
| 23 | Indeed , for it to succeed , the progress and plans of the EEC would have to be reversed . |
| 24 | The EEC should decide soon whether to raise the prices , and help Philips sell more European players . |
| 25 | The Six agreed to draft a treaty on these lines , but as a compromise de Gaulle was asked to accept that the Atlantic alliance with America should be safeguarded and that ‘ Community co-operation ’ on economic issues in the EEC should continue to be developed . |
| 26 | Basically , the levy will bring the price of food up to the level set for that product by the agricultural policy of the EEC , a price the EEC will pay European farmers . |
| 27 | The addition of Greece , Portugal and Spain to the EEC will increase the size of the potential export market . |
| 28 | The energy crisis may well mean that governments and the EEC will have to take a fresh look at the provision of public transport as a means of developing democratic tourism . |
| 29 | Its Orient , because if ‘ the West ’ did not exist , then the Orient could exist either . |
| 30 | The Japanese hi-fi 's clapped out , the VW should have been replaced 18 months ago , and that new Miele dishwasher does n't quite fit alongside the Swedish fridge . |