Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been properly heated it would slip on without any trouble . |
| 2 | But an object contemplated for its beauty alone spontaneously attracts the spectator and rouses him to expand and intensify his awareness of it ; and however much or little trust he may put in the formulation of aesthetic standards , he evaluates it by his reaction at the unsustainable height of concentration when he is responding to all his information at once . |
| 3 | They are so widely prescribed you may have taken them yourself . |
| 4 | If properly used it could improve the quality of life by a considerable degree . |
| 5 | If you would rather wait I could come back later , but it is , of course , important to lose as little time as possible . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ A tiny little place we could run ourselves , and have our own things with us , and where we could do what we liked . |
| 7 | They acknowledged that if emancipation were eventually to come it would require the moral progress and demographic increase consequent upon a conscious policy of a more equal sex ratio amongst slaves ; education and religious instruction ; the reorganisation of the work of the slaves to provide a progressive increase in the time devoted to autonomous labour from which earnings could be directed to self-purchase ; possibly too recognition of obligations to the former master even after the date of legal emancipation . |
| 8 | If I nearly close my eyes and carry on walking I can pretend I 'm blind . |
| 9 | Stephen had rather expected he would do that . |
| 10 | No doubt if their theses eventually appear they will contradict my oversimplified ideas on the matter , but this seems to me an ideal place to demonstrate " event stratigraphy " . |
| 11 | If they 're wrongly placed they can blank out the screens and make them impossible to read . |
| 12 | Of course , the states with good measurements tend to be the ones that had suddenly realised they might run out of capacity , and taken action to avoid that . |
| 13 | He suddenly realized she could have died , that something awful could have taken place after he passed out . |
| 14 | Ace suddenly realized he might have taken other damage . |
| 15 | Some lay eggs among the stones , so camouflaged you would mistake them for the rocks themselves . |
| 16 | They may be effective alone , but there needs to be caution with their introduction , especially enalapril which may cause hypotension when combined with other agents . |
| 17 | The Saturn-Pluto ‘ square ’ of March 20 and October 9 will cast a shadow over coming months , making you highly aware of how much influence you can bring to bear and how circumstance and other people can block you . |
| 18 | He only thinks he can beat you . ’ |
| 19 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |
| 20 | Gwendoline watched eagerly to see what would happen when Mary-Lou opened hers but nothing did happen . |
| 21 | If your palate is sufficiently developed you can distinguish the tobacco from the petrol . |
| 22 | When you have enough cash you can buy training equipment such as a skipping rope , punch bag or robot boxer ! |
| 23 | The monthly Civil Engineer and Architects Journal , in its March edition , said that Hall was ‘ indulging the weakness of feeling annoyed that the scheme on which he had so greatly and justly plumed himself should fall into the hands of his successor ’ . |
| 24 | Was after world war one anyway I mind of that , so say it might have been in the twenties he might have done I would n't say proper |
| 25 | Pulsatilla LM1 produced a response within 3 days when her mouth felt as if it was coated with glue and then she suddenly found she could smell again ! |
| 26 | Sorry that 's er , only place I could grab you ! |
| 27 | He kept their backsides so warm you could have fried eggs and bacon on them ! |
| 28 | As the tail is suddenly lifted you will need to move your weight back to stop the nose from digging in . |
| 29 | The funds do not merely guarantee you will get the full rise in the index over the period you have chosen ; they also ensure you get the highest bid price that the fund achieves at any point while the investment is running . |
| 30 | When astronomers could build a large enough telescope they would see the lunar inhabitants going about their daily lives . |