Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its western end is now at Marble Arch , where Tyburn used to be . |
| 2 | But is there something where God used to be ? ’ |
| 3 | If , however , the electorate does buck the trend and return George Bush to the White House , the president will face a tougher task than Clinton would in pushing his economic programme through Congress . |
| 4 | She guessed it was pretty obvious that she had nothing to come back with when , his expression grimmer than ever , ‘ We 'll finish this conversation inside , ’ he clipped , and although Fabia would by far have preferred that he simply hand over her car keys and let her go on her way , she realised that there were some responsibilities in life which you just could n't duck . |
| 5 | From the Cairngorms through the Spey valley pinewoods round Abernethy and Rothiemurchus , out to Wester Ross and even the inner isles , so much wild country is changing hands — or at least changing status — that is has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures and of what the poet Thomas Grey called ‘ the pomp of power ’ , where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ' past follies and arrogance . |
| 6 | Bog asphodel and damselfly. ‘ … it has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures … where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ’ past follies and arrogance . ’ |
| 7 | well he apparently spoke to erm , he had quite a lengthy conversation with Ron Atkinson apparently , cos Atkinson used to be the manager of Tettron did n't he ? |
| 8 | While States may by treaty opt out of a rule of customary international law inter se , they can not do so with respect to a third party which is entitled to have its customary rights observed . |
| 9 | Babergh hundred in Suffolk was possibly the most intensively industrialised district at the time ; while Rutland can with confidence be accepted as representative of the rural East Midlands , a region of mainly traditional farming , innocent of any industrial growth . |
| 10 | I did n't bother to ask whether Safranski ought to be consulted . |
| 11 | Comfort 's hands were clenched over the carved , gilded footboard of the bed and her big grey eyes were anxious when Julia could at last focus on them . |
| 12 | There is there a critical discussion of a sort of Chaucer 's literary works , introduced by the Man of Law ironically declaring his own inability to tell a " " thrifty tale " " as Chaucer can with his " " lewed " " metre and " " crafty " " rhyming . |
| 13 | At this time when youth is most exultant , this poetry is thumbed night and day ; a page is opened at random , as Virgil used to be , for a word big with fate . |
| 14 | As Gloucester used to be a major droving centre , there was inevitably much crossing with various Welsh types and the Gloucester 's slender , white , dark-tipped horns , spreading quite wide and tilting upwards at the tip , are often similar in style to those of the Welsh , though more refined and a little shorter . |