Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ We can therefore expect , on government logic , local Conservative Associations to be taken over by business ratepayers bent on winning control of councils to promote spending on services and goods they either supply or would benefit them . |
| 2 | He uses another shabby character , Tigg , to do his scrounging for him , he himself being ‘ of too haughty a stomach to work , to beg , to borrow , or steal ; yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed , begged or stolen for , by any catspaw that would serve his turn ; too insolent to lick the hand that fed him in his need , yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark ’ . |
| 3 | These include proposals to codify in detail the criteria for applying the rule of reason , to reduce antitrust penalties for ventures that include cooperating in the production and marketing of the fruits of R&D , to establish a ‘ safe harbour ’ for collaborating firms that lack market power , and to establish an administrative review process that would clear proposals which might otherwise risk antitrust penalties ( for further details , see Brodley , 1990 ; Shapiro and Willig , 1990 ; Jorde and Teece , 1990 ; and others ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The goal was to develop a research process that would result in systematic , accurate collection of land ownership data while facilitating maximum participation and potential for follow-up action . ’ |
| 5 | HP pooh-poohs Sun 's programme for focusing solely on discounts and wanting to move Domain users to ‘ ageing members of Sun 's product family ’ then on to Sparcstation 10s in two step process that would require going first to Solaris 1.0 and then to Solaris 2.0 . |
| 6 | They are thought to have formed by partial melting of subducted oceanic crust — a process that would have been much more widespread early in Earth history than at present , owing to the higher thermal gradients prevailing at that time . |
| 7 | A different transition process that can occur when the pressure gradient is adverse has already been considered in Section 12.6 : the sequence of laminar separation , transition , and turbulent reattachment . |
| 8 | Richard was the King 's brother ; according to Henry 's mood and caprice that might make the young man either indispensable or unthinkable , but even for de Burgh it made it difficult to disparage his stewardship openly . |
| 9 | We would be delighted , and I expect that would blight his future even more , but it is essential that we have a mechanism to check on what is happening so that there is information and a body to which people can bring their grievances so that matters are properly set out and , more important , rectified before damage is done . |
| 10 | But I expect that will suit you , since you seem to be afraid of being alone with me . ’ |
| 11 | Last week , a group from Boston 's Joslin diabetes centre announced that it had devised a blood test that can identify children most at risk . |
| 12 | Thon wee Marie Tress that used to work the upper circle got stuck ahint the safe in the office way him an he vernear tane the blouse affer . |
| 13 | Some 35% of us weigh over 10% more than we should — for a woman of average height and build that could mean anything from 12lb to 3 or more stone . |
| 14 | ‘ Look for what you want and let's get out . ’ |
| 15 | In case you forget and would like the staff at Frank Glennon Limited to give you a free quotation before your next renewal date please complete and return the coupon below . |
| 16 | In other words , you must accept the idea that historians often disagree and may have convincing reasons to support their individual viewpoints . |
| 17 | The good will grow and will drown what is unhealthy , what is not worthy . |
| 18 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 19 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 20 | A paper recently published by Jacek Baranowski et al working at the University of California , Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ( Phys Rev Lett , Vol 66 no 23 ) describes a new form of gallium arsenide that will superconduct at a temperature of 10K . |
| 21 | THE PROCESS CHANGE THAT WILL LEAD SUNSOFT BEYOND SOLARIS 2 . |
| 22 | Economists have told me this could be the final push that will consign up to 250,000 people to the scrap heap . ’ |
| 23 | Basically , it fiddles around with the ‘ Twin Peaks ’ /Moby strings and then slides gently into a totally infectious organ and horns track that should put an uplifting smile on many a clubber . |
| 24 | Any partial parse that is rejected will be removed — thereby removing any parse that would have contained this component . |
| 25 | DEC 's ten-year-old Palo Alto , California-based Western Research Lab is trying to design a single BiCMOS chip that will run at 1000MHz , 1GHz , according to the latest Microprocessor Report . |
| 26 | The old and lonely are very vulnerable , and if you have sounded detached , preoccupied , or hurried during the conversation they can easily feel hurt and rejected ; and that hurt can be like an emotional graze that will remain painful until you are able to see them again and heal it . |
| 27 | People would be required to enter their own wealth holdings , and wealth from which they benefit or may benefit , which is held in family trusts . |
| 28 | He describes the tour of Wales as ‘ a joke ’ , not meant as a jibe at the opposition but at Australian officials for keeping them on a whistle stop that would daunt American tourists . |
| 29 | But the irony of the current position is that the Conservatives have all the same problems — but with a policy mix that will make them worse ! |
| 30 | As was to be expected in American contracts there was a paragraph prohibiting any act that would shock , insult or offend the community or degrade them in society . |