Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them might more accurately be described as tinted pen and ink drawings than watercolours in the traditional sense . |
| 2 | It would be an excellent idea to provide your Porcupine Puffer with a separate tank , but do n't introduce another into the same tank because they just do n't get on and one of them would almost certainly die . |
| 3 | When one of them could no longer come up to the scratch line at the beginning of a round he was held to have lost the match . |
| 4 | Of all these expanding emotions , the one which we call compassion , may have been the first to emerge and could be the one of greatest importance , but the origins of all of them could almost certainly be found far back in evolutionary time . |
| 5 | A quarter of them will no longer exist in the budget . |
| 6 | And it seems to me that the use of these therefore at strategic level , many of them can only really be used if you 're prepared to make erm huge assumptions or huge leaps of the imagination . |
| 7 | You are thus investing money for retirement much of which would only otherwise have been paid to the taxman |
| 8 | By virtue both of the imperatives already identified , and their financial overtones , every decision taken will have budget implications , the onus of which can no longer be passed to the policies of the LEA , safely remote from the staff-room . |
| 9 | Now another general point which I dare n't put on the slide is that during this , the next sort of hour or so , or two hours , erm , some of you will almost certainly become insulted with the way that I talk to you . |
| 10 | In a rape case , by contrast , a defendant who says he believed in consent when the girl had demonstrated her lack of it may very well not be believed . |
| 11 | Dicke and Peebles argued that we should still be able to see the glow of the early universe , because light from very distant parts of it would only just be reaching us now . |
| 12 | You will know which pipe is frozen because the tap at the end of it will no longer be working . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
| 14 | By the time Stefan gets his sweet all sorts of behaviour will have come and gone — some of it will almost certainly be undesirable . |
| 15 | Even the jar looked costly , Alida thought , chalice-shaped , gilt-lidded and made out of what could so easily have been milk-glass . |
| 16 | But given the choice and understanding , most of us would probably still rather face up to distress . |
| 17 | Well , I went with a friend from university and we both enjoyed walking and in particular we enjoyed walking from one place to another place , and last summer was the only last long break either of us would ever really have and erm |
| 18 | If this is passed some of us will no longer be active . ’ |
| 19 | Now what will be concerning the last hard core will be that amongst them can almost certainly the people who were involved in the original planning of the er uprising or riot , and also who probably er orchestrated the Kangaroo Courts . |
| 20 | Since further complaints against him would almost certainly have been recorded , it is a fair guess that he took to the open life . |
| 21 | you know , so the rebellion against him could just as easily have been because he was raised as an Egyptian or that , that the , you know the between monarchism from the past could also have been . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | An animal sheltering in them can only too easily be cornered and many hole-dwellers take steps to reduce that risk . |
| 24 | As soon as Lévi-Strauss shows that the experience on which Sartre bases his philosophy is not a universal one , then the general inferences for all humanity that he draws from it can no longer be justified . |
| 25 | Perceptions are constructed or formed from whatever would normally otherwise have been inhibited ( such as the low-level random discharges from the retina ) . |
| 26 | At the same time , the sentiments of pity which he who suffers punishment evokes in us can no longer be so easily nor so completely extinguished by the sentiments he has offended and which react against him ; for both are of the same nature ’ ( Durkheim , 1973 : 303 ) . |
| 27 | However , there are now real problems and the solutions to them can no longer be delayed or fudged . |
| 28 | The 's on which will just here . |
| 29 | Okay so do n't need to learn all the fractions but we need to we 'll probably just go playing with these the ones we 've got here . |
| 30 | 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 . |