Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each may handle up to 2,000 applications from the Polytechnics Central Admissions System ( PCAS ) in a year and is responsible for counselling a proportion of Stage I students . |
| 2 | That may turn out to be the case as the likes of Ferrari , Williams-Renault and Benetton-Ford get into their stride later in the season , but on the streets of Phoenix , Senna had no trouble in scoring his 27th win . |
| 3 | Wayne Clark , SNA architect with Cisco Systems commented that ‘ there will always be customers who go with APPN just because they 're IBM users ’ — but that may turn out to be a dated view : even IBM these days concedes that it is no longer in a position to dictate standards in the brave new world of open systems . |
| 4 | Okay , so they 've other P H I benefit , that must come off of the equation , because we , otherwise we 'll be paying it as well as another insurance company , which mean he 'll be better off financially , by being off work sick , yes . |
| 5 | On a similar US-style deal , commissions might be only 0.325 per cent but most of that should end up with the banks . |
| 6 | Status . — Scarce but regular winter visitor ; a very few may pass through on passage . |
| 7 | Although a few may take up to a week of daily feeding with the culprit food before they respond , this is probably fairly unusual . |
| 8 | A few may turn out to be heroes as well , but a few is all you need ; for the rest , what matters is biting down and holding on . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it is possible that if in the manager-owner contract nexus the manager bears little risk , this may spill over into a lack of control over employees . |
| 10 | Secondly , disused flues must be ventilated at top and bottom ; if they are not , condensation can occur within the flue and this may show up as damp patches on chimney breasts . |
| 11 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 12 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 13 | This may turn out to be an important development in new materials . |
| 14 | I have a sensation of heat as I approach the fire ; but when I approach the same fire too closely , I have a sensation of pain ; so there is nothing to convince me that something in the fire resembles heat , any more than the pain ; it is just that there must be something in it ( whatever this may turn out to be ) that produces the sensations of heat or pain . |
| 15 | This may turn out to be possibly the most innovative airshow scenario staged anywhere this year — detailed down to Flyco flagging them off the ‘ deck ’ . |
| 16 | Just how complicated a problem this may turn out to be is indicated by the following quotations from the opening paragraphs of the first two chapters of Christine Hugh-Jones ' very remarkable book From the Milk River , which is a study of Pira-pirana Indians living in the Vaupes region of Colombia , as viewed from the perspective of the inhabitants of a single longhouse community in which she and her husband resided for two years between September 1968 and December 1970 : |
| 17 | This may take up to 2 or 3 days , depending on the type of soil and how damp it was to start with . |
| 18 | Another may come along for advice and you 'd tell him to leave the horse alone : ‘ But he looks all right ! |
| 19 | Please be aware that there will be quite a few people using the bridge around 0830 , although this should ease off towards 0900 . |
| 20 | All this should add up to an exceedingly varied tonal palette indeed . |
| 21 | This must go up on the wall ! ’ and stick his latest painting up with Sellotape alongside the daubs by the mentally handicapped group she had played for at Christmas , and the postcards from her friends all over the world . |
| 22 | ‘ This must lead down to the road , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 23 | Some might set off from observations like these to construct a formal system which would provide different representations for the different types of non-linguistic referents ( beings or situations or things ) for which , logically , the various phrases could be used in our own or some other possible world . |
| 24 | With any luck this might turn out to be the workshop she was looking for ! |
| 25 | Last month I expressed the hope that , as the autocratic system of government in South Africa is replaced by a more democratic one , this might rub off on the new rugby bureaucracy . |
| 26 | In Victorian and post-Victorian times , a woman of forty might settle down to wearing black and being an old lady . |
| 27 | Pale , cold , clammy , yes , this is the opposite , you 've got all the signs and symptoms here of a stroke , now if , this could go on with and erm if somebody , if something is n't done very quickly with this compression the person has still got this bleed , or clot in the head and eventually they just kind of all come up into the foetus position , literally all goes spastic , all these spastic movements right , you finished writing ? |
| 28 | I wished this could go on for ever but I realised that all too soon I would have to return . |
| 29 | ‘ But this could go on for years . ’ |
| 30 | Let's hope the ms strikes lucky this time , otherwise this could go on for generations . |