Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any witness whose attendance in court ought for some sufficient cause to be dispensed with may be ordered ( N 21 ) by the judge or district judge to be examined before an examiner in England or Wales ( Ord 20 , r 13 ) . |
| 2 | The should of slow labouring footsteps could be heard moving along the first-floor landing as the boy threw himself into the kitchen and slammed the door behind him . |
| 3 | One sole practitioner argued that ‘ private clients must take the risk of a business default by a solicitor as they must with any other business ’ ; whilst another commented that capping would be justified ‘ now that solicitors have been turned into a trade with the main considerations being commercial ’ . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , I expect that the methodological pluralism which has characterized our biogeography during my time will continue , and diversity of both material and outlook must in any final reckoning be a source of strength . |
| 5 | Nearly all the foregoing are in some measure examples of transgressions against the laws of the country , and subject to punishment , but are rife mainly because the forces of law and order are stretched beyond capacity , and do not get the help they should from that all-important first line of defence against evil , the constraints of the individual conscience . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , Jules could not have been serious in his suggestion that she might for one single instant consider becoming Monsieur 's mistress . |
| 7 | Might of bloody known ! |
| 8 | In both these there is a struggle between two opposing forces , between the mariner 's evil deed , and the need for penance , which provides the contrast between futility and lack of concern with which the mariner kills the albatross , rather evidently portraying what might in simple moralistic terms be defined as evil , and the desire to make amends for this wrongdoing . |
| 9 | If 5% , let us say , of the total of first-preference votes are given to minute parties and frivolous independent candidates , there is no good reason why they should secure even the minimal representation to which they might in strict theoretical proportionality be entitled . |
| 10 | For some Protestant thinkers , experimental science promised a way of reversing the effects of the original curse , a way of making a better world that might in some small way mirror the perfection of God 's heavenly kingdom , a way of restoring the world to a condition fit for Christ 's earthly rule . |
| 11 | And since they could not bear the truth , these singers , who might in some other place have been wise , were squeezed under the terrible weight of the warren 's secret until they gulped out fine folly about dignity and acquiescence , and anything else that could make believe that the rabbit loved the shining wire . |
| 12 | I 'd signed Robina Marquis and my full address in the signing-in book at the B 'n' B. The mole-woman might at this very moment be ringing Directory Enquiries to get the Marquis number and find out my story was all lies . |
| 13 | It is even a good idea to hold on to congratulatory memos ( perhaps appended to slips telling you of pay increases ) or any other correspondence which might at some distant date help you to defend yourself against unfair criticisms of your capabilities . |
| 14 | I suppose it is not impossible that , if I had needed to make application to the authorities to undertake a dash to and from London for the purpose I had in mind , the brother-in-law 's request might by some happy chance have ‘ married up ’ with my own application . |
| 15 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 16 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ The key requirement was that we look after our people as well as we possibly could in these extreme circumstances . |
| 17 | But surely there are no acts of introspection " that could in any intelligible sense be said to be identifiable independently of their objects , analogous to " acts of extrospection " . |
| 18 | ( 4 ) The offeror 's solicitors are normally asked to undertake a review of all publicly available documents ( such as memoranda and articles of association , Loan Stock Trust Deeds , material contracts etc ) to elicit whether the takeover would constitute a default thereunder , trigger an early repayment of loans or the exercise of options or the documents could in some other way impact on the takeover . |
| 19 | Ramsay explained that his lordship 's goodbrother , the Earl of Moray , had desired to see his sister the Countess whilst in the vicinity , as was but natural ; and while there , they had learned that the defences of the castle were being strengthened , in view of possible attack by the English , and they had offered such small help as they could in this excellent work in the realm 's interest . |
| 20 | Intermarriage between members of well-connected families could at any particular time create ties between them , and have repercussions in city politics . |
| 21 | C.N.L. have , theoretically , one other alternative : they could at this late stage , without benefit of the P.C.A. documents , mount their own unaided inquiry into the police officers ' conduct and thus seek independently to obtain all the same evidence that the P.C.A. so painstakingly uncovered some three years ago . |
| 22 | As John Tutchin was later to ask , " Did our Fore-Fathers struggle so hard to curb the Ambition of their Kings who Invaded their Birth-Rights " , only for us to be " Oppress 'd by that very Power with which our Ancestors Defended their Liberties ? " |
| 23 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 24 | Thus we have to say of medieval popular drama that the sense of ritual ‘ presence ’ , of the kind still indicated by the formalized words and movements of the mass , has significantly changed , but may in some new combination of signals be still to some extent active , in ways that it is clearly -not in later forms and systems . |
| 25 | ‘ Such conflict as may in any given circumstance appear to arise between rule 33 ’ — of the Coroners Rules 1953 , the equivalent of the present rule 42 — ‘ and the duty to inquire ‘ how ’ must be resolved in favour of the statutory duty to inquire whatever the consequences of this may be . |
| 26 | And you used to funky little reggae , oh my god singing . |
| 27 | You should lay the same type of foundation as you would for any other path , but you can cheat if you want to by simply removing the top soil and vegetation , then fixing wooden side restraints . |
| 28 | By establishing a partnership it is likely that the school must recognise its own role in servicing , supporting , and maintaining the progress of its partnership , in the same way that it would for any internal group . |
| 29 | Ideally you should float your purchases in the bucket and gradually mix the water as you would for any newly-stocked fish . |
| 30 | Just as I would with any other male acquaintance . ’ |