Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your readers may or not be aware of the consternation currently being experienced in south-west Scotland following the installation of ‘ improved ’ technology at the Carlisle office of the Royal Mail whither our post has been taken for sorting for almost a decade . |
| 2 | But 10,000 Maniacs might as well have added the sound of fishing slapping each other , so irrelevant is the instrumentation . |
| 3 | At the cab rank they went to the shelter , where drivers could while away the night hours in warmth and obtain food . |
| 4 | I 've enjoyed it and I 'm sure my readers will as well . |
| 5 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 6 | Studies of responses to both separation from the attachment object and subsequent reunion with it , yield unequivocal support to the proposition that attachments can and often do survive periods of absence , undiminished in strength , despite the fact that attachment behaviour may diminish in strength during the period of absence . |
| 7 | Those who want equal time for creation science in biology classes might as well make similar demands for Flat Earth theory in astronomy classes . |
| 8 | Whether Kathleen remembered the list of requirements or not , things might as well be got ready , the sorting out begun . |
| 9 | Wealthy families would while away their days at the baths being massaged with aromatic oils by the unfortunate eunuch slave whose sole function in life was to knead and pummel his master . |
| 10 | He points out that these aims can and often do conflict in an industrial R&T organization . |
| 11 | When their prey species are inactive , cats may as well save energy , because they are unlikely to be successful in hunting , and so they rest and sleep for most of the day . |
| 12 | Anyone who just wants to play arcade-type games might as well buy a games console . |
| 13 | Until Naive Prober tries one of its probing defections the players might as well be two Tit for Tats . |
| 14 | And so the men can try it just as much as the girls can as well . |
| 15 | It follows that any work with children may and very probably will have sexual implications . |
| 16 | ‘ A woman without children might as well not be born , ’ said Mrs Khalid . |
| 17 | In terms of radio and television attention , a record at 42 in the charts might as well be at 92 . |
| 18 | The pollsters might as well ask them who will win the Derby and whether the weather will be fine . |
| 19 | well I do n't know how they work it , but I should n't get a bad one , it should be okay , I mean my dad 's gon na give me money anyway , so , I mean if I , London City so Phil was saying one of the best in the country he says that , so hopefully if they , they give me an offer , the others should as well |
| 20 | Somehow , in a little over 100 years , science has let its hard-won reputation be whored down to a point where its priests might as well be selling chocolate or cars . |
| 21 | The papers might as well be handed that titbit in tomorrow 's press statement . |
| 22 | I do n't hold out much hope on this one , but the boys might as well find out if the visitors speak English . |
| 23 | We have got a flexibility factor on Tuesday morning , but if I can avoid that I would like to do it , and I 'm sure some some others would as well . |
| 24 | Since then I 'm very pleased that two of them have done so , and I very much hope that the others will as well and I 've always made it clear I 'm perfectly prepared to explain any situation to any Council or Councillors who want to talk to me — my door is always open . |
| 25 | The timing of the shifts depends on the growth of the local market , the extent of tariffs imposed and the fear on the part of one player that if he does not invest , others will and thereby capture the market . |
| 26 | Any discussion of crime must be cognizant of the fact that serious adverse consequences can and often do follow from being indifferent to the outcome of one 's actions ( or inactions ) . |
| 27 | Furthermore , extensive spreads of such seas can as effectively isolate pieces of emergent continent as spreading ocean floor , thereby creating barriers to migration of terrestrial organisms , and should also promote equability of the continental climate . |
| 28 | ‘ While researchers can as yet give us no clear answers as to what this signifies ’ he said , ‘ it is probable that the brain will be affected by the chemical working environment as we nowadays know it in factories , office buildings with an unhealthy internal climate and polluted city air ’ . |
| 29 | The revolutionaries might as well have come from another planet for all the relevance their schemes had to the real concerns of the peasantry . |