Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Oxford hung on for what may well prove a crucial victory . |
| 2 | Then he dressed and went down for what would now be a vulture 's breakfast . |
| 3 | These include such essentials as a preliminary sounding meeting with the head and whoever else is part of the school 's senior management ( i.e. anyone in a position to further the aims of the group ) to secure their sanction and support ; and an introductory meeting with as many of the staff as possible and manageable , for instance over a working lunch , regardless of who will eventually join the group , so that everybody knows what it will be about and interest is generated even in those who may not wish to join it . |
| 4 | THE INSPIRALS move down to the Harbour area and sit on a green patch with the sun beating down like it can rarely do in Oldham . |
| 5 | the question arises whether , in relation to any particular post , there is adequate potential to meet the needs of the firm , so notwithstanding what might otherwise be a desirable policy of providing career opportunities , this issue needs to be looked at closely . |
| 6 | ‘ The gentleman who 'd been in with her would naturally have gone back to his room well before people started stirring . ’ |
| 7 | They also review the history of the main hypotheses of atherogenesis : response to injury , lipid infiltration , monoclonal smooth muscle proliferation , thrombogenic ‘ encrustation ’ , and autoimmunity , but they weave these together into what can fairly be called a consensus view . |
| 8 | If you 'd like to take those away with you will actually erm reinforce some of the things that I 'm going to say during the next hour . |
| 9 | Indeed , so firmly did they reject the view that adults should be given the right to choose their own cinema entertainment — ‘ whatever turns you on ’ , as the saying went — that their Report marked the beginning of a historic swing of the pendulum away from what can now be seen as the libertarian heyday of British media law . |
| 10 | She wanted to turn tail and run and keep on running away from him , away from what she might discover , away from what could only break her heart , yet she knew that was impossible . |
| 11 | I can not ask her to suffer further for what may never be . |
| 12 | No you do n't have to , there 's no , there 's no rea there 's no , there 's no thing that makes someone but it , it if you 're pissed off it does n't , you do n't have to have a special reason to be pissed off you can just be pissed off like you can just be annoyed , it 's like saying you 're annoyed when someone nicks your towels . |
| 13 | I think to start off with we 'll just give you something to relive the symptoms |
| 14 | They may shade off into what might more appropriately be called ethnocentrism , where ethnic groups are defined primarily in cultural terms and are regarded as having essential traits . |
| 15 | Before doing any deal , Hewlett-Packard would have to weigh whether it would gain more from what would effectively be privileged access to Siemens ' customers than it would lose in self-impact on its already strong position in western Germany . |
| 16 | One member followed me around all day abusing me verbally with what can only be called dirty talk . |
| 17 | The slugs , slipped into recycled snail shells , make up for what might otherwise lead to the extermination of the French snail . |
| 18 | From next season an attacking player who is in line with the last defender when the ball is played up to him may no longer be offside . |
| 19 | An attempted return led David to disastrous defeat at Neville 's Cross , after which he was a prisoner in English hands for eleven years until bought back for what could truly be called a king 's ransom . |
| 20 | Even the jar looked costly , Alida thought , chalice-shaped , gilt-lidded and made out of what could so easily have been milk-glass . |
| 21 | The Court did not however think that it fell so far below what might properly be imposed by way of sentence so as to justify the Court in interfering so as to increase the sentence . |
| 22 | The individuals adapted through increased capacities to control environmental changes and to exist independently of them will then be the more successful . |
| 23 | Although I 'm strongly against what can only be described as the ‘ bastardisation ’ of a property , a little out-of-keeping decor is often unavoidable unless you restrict yourself to a very limited range of choice . |
| 24 | Carrying a full size electrocardiogram ( ECG ) machine around with you would certainly push your heart rate up , but would probably give you a hernia at the same time . |
| 25 | At the time er well I 've always through the roofing right you you come up against site fore you know site foreman general foreman clerk of works and I I 've always got on well with I can always talk to people . |
| 26 | I I mean if these petitions were n't in it 'd just be a square room . |
| 27 | It applies equally to what would once have been obtaining by false pretences , if , as is here the case , the requirements of section 1(1) are also satisfied . |
| 28 | It follows that even by she would again have finished her degree in the Summer of nineteen ninety two . |
| 29 | A seven-year-old lovable imp turned overnight into what can only be described as a ‘ demon ’ . |
| 30 | Like the reader who finds that the chapters of his detective novel have been printed in the wrong order , we may only now be beginning to understand why from the point of view of ego- and superego-development the crime which should be at the beginning ( that of Oedipus ) comes at the end , and why what comes at the beginning ( the oral period ) leads unintelligibly into what should otherwise have been the conclusion of the story ( anal stage , latency ) ! |