Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you have done enough and must distance yourself from her possessive embrace . |
| 2 | We now give a variant of the method of 2.9.3 ; we do so partly because the variant can save computer time , especially if may iterations are required , but also because it enables us simply to bring out certain features of the method , which lead to possible modifications . |
| 3 | Tests under conditions which are periodically changed can , by imposing changing stresses on a pack , reveal inadequacies more quickly than can storage at a constant temperature . |
| 4 | No other form of cultural representation — not painting , nor literature nor music nor even television — can signify quite as figurally as can cinema . |
| 5 | A special pathos is achieved when the poetry acts out the predicament of people whose all too expert command of language debars them ( paradoxically ) from expressing a common human sorrow — mortality , the fear of it , and its conclusiveness — as limpidly as could Williams 's ‘ widow ’ . |
| 6 | Even though Can UK generously provided their services free of charge , the whole exercise was estimated to have cost the Peak Park in the region of £1,000 . |
| 7 | In my mood of delight , I thought of it as a beautiful idea for these were roads that go nowhere , nowhere that could interest men . |