Example sentences of "[vb pp] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The menus listed should satisfy your appetite . |
| 2 | Those thus pressured may find themselves becoming interested and committed . |
| 3 | But editors who refuse to retract damaging comments after clear proof that they are wildly exaggerated may lay themselves open to the inference from this conduct that they were similarly reckless at the time of the original publication . |
| 4 | I dare n't sing — people who 've already booked might cancel their Access — and I do n't know which sketch would compress into the thirty-four seconds I 'll undoubtedly be granted . |
| 5 | Their participation hinged on a variety of factors such as personal situation at the time of receiving the response sheet ; feelings of obligation towards the two agencies involved in the sampling ; perception that being interviewed might help them in the future ; boredom with prison life ; and simple curiosity . |
| 6 | The interaction of intense laser light with certain gases can produce extreme ultraviolet radiation , but the windows needed to keep the gas contained would absorb it , some ingenious ways were devised to amid windows , but they generally were too cumbersome for practical use . |
| 7 | Efforts by the EC to introduce a tax last year were frustrated by the Bush administration 's opposition to the concept which European industrialists claimed would put them at an unfair disadvantage in world markets . |
| 8 | None of the mortgage societies they had approached would advance them more than ten . |
| 9 | The columns for support and supply had been alerted long ago , the clansmen waited only for the signal , and his great seal on the writs his messengers carried would bring them out to join him like bees from a hive disturbed . |
| 10 | In any event most ear , nose , and throat departments have a review facility whereby patients whose symptoms had spontaneously resolved would have their operations postponed . |
| 11 | And you begin to say things that do n't make any sense to people who do n't know what 's going on between you , but you know that the other person , to whom what you 've said is really addressed will know what you mean , even though he may not actually be there . |
| 12 | Simply to observe that a job is running late and the profit margin is being squeezed will achieve nothing . |
| 13 | If the Constitutional Code has revealed Bentham as an important theorist of representative democracy , the volumes to be edited will establish him as a major theorist of constitutional government generally . |
| 14 | So by this means , the interest of ownership in the performance of the business owned can assert itself . |
| 15 | A full supporting line up will be announced shortly and any local bands wishing to be considered can contact me . |
| 16 | Pop music , it was argued ought to address itself to the ‘ real ’ problems — unemployment , racism , etc etc . |
| 17 | And providing all that document done let's face it it is simple providing you make sure that people er the advertiser knows what you 're what you 're looking for before you go round there then there should n't should n't be too much problem . |
| 18 | While he laughs off comparisons to Lawrence of Arabia , he admits that ‘ to spend 10 years getting the film made must mean it corresponds to something deep inside ’ . |
| 19 | Where by the order a party is first ordered to do the act , and there is then added a clause in the order that in default of so doing specific consequences will follow , the part that directs the act to be done must use one or other of the above forms of wording . |
| 20 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 21 | He says that anyone who wants to be noticed could drive it . |
| 22 | In an attempt to reduce the death toll , one police force has launched a campaign to get a simple message across to cyclists — that being seen could save them from being killed . |
| 23 | I hoped the service we had just attended would ensure his continued safe landfalls from ‘ out there ’ . |
| 24 | It is very heated and more than anything else I have done would take me a million miles from the safety of Ramsay Street , ’ she said . |
| 25 | It also spoke , however , of ‘ due account of prevailing economic and social conditions ’ — a get-out clause that ministers said would give them free rein while saving the face of parliament . |
| 26 | Doc Threadneedle had warned her that the alterations he had made would affect her mind , so she could be confused without realizing it . |
| 27 | The Federal Reserve 's Alan Greenspan said the Fed would do what it could to ease America 's credit crunch . |
| 28 | Knowing how these processes are organized will help us develop better computer systems for object naming , in addition to helping us understand how object naming develops in children , and how it can break down after brain damage . |
| 29 | Fears that disabled drivers particularly the severely disabled will find it impossible to shop in the town were raised . |
| 30 | Mr Barr said : ‘ We can remove our hillside protest , but the pylons if built will ruin our countryside forever . ’ |