Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore decided to strengthen and redeploy the AIB team in preparation for what would obviously become a major task for the next eighteen months or so . |
| 2 | Then , holding everything else constant so far as we can , we form a judgement about what will most probably happen . |
| 3 | Only so can we hope to retain their enthusiasm for what must inevitably sometimes seem a long and weary journey . |
| 4 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 5 | The first card you turn over is the matching ace , so it seems that you have had the first strike of luck for you can clearly get the first pair . |
| 6 | In the case of the customer with a perverted sense of humour there would however be no theft for there would probably be no dishonesty and certainly no intent permanently to deprive the owner of the goods themselves . |
| 7 | But time-wise the gap between them may well be much more important than the time-span within them . |
| 8 | Should God create another Eve and I another rib of , yet loss of thee would never from my heart . |
| 9 | ‘ This is much more important than any wedding photograph of mine could ever be , ’ Catherine assured him . |
| 10 | It would be wrong to claim that Darwinism had no impact on the study of what would now be called ecological relationships , but the impact was indirect . |
| 11 | It was an impressive demonstration of what can now be done . |
| 12 | It is unfortunate that the CACs were seen as a political football and they provide an interesting indication of what might possibly happen were all legal services to be funded from local or central government . |
| 13 | His violence towards them might even be deemed no more than a Satanic desire to get them used to the notion of reigning in Hell rather than serving in Heaven . |
| 14 | Lyrical Ballads nevertheless remains a very strange publication , the full effect of which can only be appreciated by studying a facsimile edition , or one of the reprints of the first edition . |
| 15 | In the meantime , of course , he had become a Schopenhauerian , the relevant effect of which can only have been to confirm the validity of his preoccupation with music and his suspicion of the new musical idiom . |
| 16 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 17 | It was only much later that I realised the reason for the request and also for the resulting laughter , namely the enjoyment of a broad Somerset accent which had come with me , and traces of which can still be recognised by West Country people nearly seventy years later . |
| 18 | Such building , multiplied many times over , provided France with a network of fortified towns ( some of them very large by the standards of the day ) , impressive traces of which can still be seen today . |
| 19 | This leaves the possibility of a splendid house being found in the east courtyard , where the museum and custodian 's house now stand ; but had any substantial remains survived , traces of them would surely have been found when those buildings were erected . |
| 20 | It has also been said that such activities can help to raise the general level of energy of members of the household , the depletion of which may often show itself as a succession of minor illnesses . |
| 21 | For the first time in their four-year history the awards will have a regional stage ; the winners of which will then have a chance to win one of nine national awards in London on November 17 . |
| 22 | But for this to happen , a person 's conception of themselves must also be transformed . |
| 23 | Rhee hoped the United States and Britain would recognise his provisional government ; a British Foreign Office minute from March 1945 reads , ‘ These people can not in any true sense be said to represent Korea and Anglo-US recognition of them might well lead to those [ problems ] we have experienced over the ‘ London Poles ’ . |
| 24 | See , if you sort of somehow trellis that area , that side in you could actually have this mo more intimate if people just wanted |
| 25 | A world-wide Mareva injunction now always contains a proviso designed to afford some protection for third parties from what would otherwise be ‘ an altogether exorbitant , extra-territorial jurisdiction ’ . |
| 26 | In June of that year Eliot met a figure from what must now have seemed to the London banker a remote part of his life . |
| 27 | By then all the stars will have burned out and the protons and neutrons in them will probably have decayed into light particles and radiation . |
| 28 | However , there are now real problems and the solutions to them can no longer be delayed or fudged . |
| 29 | In a second collection ( 1577 ) Le Maistre keeps generally to a simpler polyphonic style , while the enormously influential Fünffzig Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen ( Nuremberg , 1586 ) of Lucas Osiander ( 1534–1604 ) were specifically ‘ set so that an entire Christian congregation can join in the singing throughout ( durchaus mitsingen ) ’ , in four-part block harmony with the melody in the highest part and firmly marked tonal ( V-I ) cadences on what may surely be called ‘ dominant ’ and ‘ tonic ’ : |
| 30 | I dislike using them in conversation , for they can add a measure of artificiality to what should otherwise be casual . |