Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [modal v] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The anthem , Hear me , oh Lord , the great support , contains the memorable words : ‘ Now to my prayers draw nigh fond men that would my glory stain , my government despise . ’
2 All I can say is that in a period of two years erm of five , in that time there was five sets of redundancies at erm Hatfield , there are two occasions we were told that they went through it and agree with the unions that there 'd be no more for twelve months and one occasion there was another chap in three months , so if you believe anything that the P A E people there , you know , you really want to wear dark glasses but could I ask you a question , I understand that there is something going on at work with Richard at and my guess is , is , erm that sort of job which we are , there is some form of development plans going forward .
3 They can not imagine any delight in a tumble of ungainly bodies nor can they accept the fact that the sexual act is not graceful .
4 In many ways the first two UDCs could not have possessed more diverse characteristics nor could they have differed more greatly in their potential to transform their respective areas from derelict urban landscapes to localities resonant with dynamic private sector activity .
5 Microcomputers can not store as much data as the larger computers nor can they process it as quickly .
6 Will they continue to be concentrated in large companies or will there be a growth in the relative importance of small firms ?
7 [ National implications but could we be a leader ? ]
8 ‘ For one thing it sounds like an overlapping full-back on the Juventus transfer list , for another my kids are asking if an appointment is necessary these days or should they start the row without me ?
9 Do you have to go quite far away to see all these things or could you see most of them on Shapinsay ?
10 What are these lumps and will they go away in time ?
11 In other words , will workers in the future be increasingly herded together in large factories or offices belonging to even larger corporations or will there be a shift towards work being carried out at a more local level within small groups , perhaps operating as independent companies , partnerships , or co-operatives ?
12 Invite groups to raise seventy five pounds for us , or seven hundred and fifty pounds or dare I say it , seven thousand five hundred pounds .
13 Can Mr Fallon MP throw any light as to whether our concessionary tickets and free passes will be honoured by the private owners or will there be a pay off to compensate any withdrawal of our passes ?
14 decide whether or not they really need to be on that site for fourteen hours or can they do what they need to do in four ?
15 Will they develop incrementally along existing lines or will there be a change cyclically to something resembling the old consensus ?
16 Is that on existing beds or will it be for new beds only ?
17 In particular , will he confirm that the Government see leisure courses and non-vocational courses as being equal in value to vocational courses and will they ensure funding for all ?
18 This is something which has been drawn to my attention on many occasions and would she not agree that there are many of us who very much regret the fact that so many parents er are find it difficult to exercise their right to vote , because there is so much opposition er at a local level from officials
19 I 've been in and out , and in and out , and in and out and had all those tests and can they tell me what 's wrong ?
20 just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ?
21 By moving their labour-intensive operations to Yucatan , such companies will survive , while their new Mexican workers will spend more of their pay packets on American imports than would their counterparts in , say , Thailand .
22 something to be dropped on from a great height as frequently as possible er particularly if it 's the G L C. In the United States , however much the federal government is irritated by the state government , it can not attack its constitutional powers nor can it undermine its financial base so that 's a different relationship , it 's a relationship based , not on dominance , but on partnership and there has to be an understanding , a trade off between federal and er a and state government .
23 Should anyone ever make difficult decisions or should he work on them — using time as an ally if necessary — until they become easy enough to be made ?
24 I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’
25 The only doubts maybe ( or rather unproven areas ) are in the financial aspects and can he spot talent ?
26 It does not generally support dragging-and-dropping files onto other applications nor can its drag-and-drop be tailored .
27 I mean that 's our — we design books , and we design journals , and we set up and we take on new journals and can we ever extract any copy from the editorial board — we know it 's going to be about Plant Sciences , but no idea what length of headline and how much technical gump is going to go into it , or we take something on
28 How have you been justifying your existence in the last twenty-four hours and can you name the guilty man ? ’
29 Erm and if we then find money for printing it I would approach Barclays Bank , banks , local banks and would it do it very modestly the same local the same style er and only hand it out to places where people are likely to pick it up .
30 Will you be under huge pressures or will you be winding down a bit by then ?
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