Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun pl] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 2 | Thought my erratic Course Work 'd see me through , or my papers 'd get mixed up with someone else 's who 's a genius . |
| 3 | ‘ The Playfair football and cricket titles sell a lot of copies through general wholesalers and cash'n'carry , where their customers will buy a counterpack . |
| 4 | In the ninth century , one poet praised its beauty , while another drowned in it ; salt-traders and vintners plied it as a matter of routine ; nobles and religious communities with estates on both sides of it had boats ready for regular crossings and landing-stages where their men could send off surplus produce for sale and unload imports for their masters ' consumption ; Vikings contemplated arduous upstream journeys , but quick getaways ; Charles the Bald , worried over strategic problems , planned the river 's blocking , and policing , and also exploited the symbolic possibilities of meetings at Orléans , Fleury , Cosne , Meung , Pouilly to which nobles must come from Aquitaine by crossing the river while Charles himself received his visitors on the Frankish side . |
| 5 | They will be able to see for themselves where their pictures will take pride of place on the 4,000-ton structure being built for Agip ( UK ) at the SLP Engineering yard in Commercial Street . |
| 6 | There is even one corner where life in the year 2000 B.C. is represented : when Alford , or whatever the site would have been known as then , would have consisted of straw huts where its inhabitants might have been weavers and flint tool makers . |
| 7 | Every Elf city was required to have a martial field where its soldiers could train and fight mock battles . |
| 8 | There were times , Lissa reflected , when she might have preferred a more mundane job , where her thoughts could wander unhindered along different by-ways . |
| 9 | After teaching English as a foreign language for many years , Pauline wanted to establish a house in a country setting where her students could stay for up to three or four weeks at a time . |
| 10 | This proposition , admittedly , is not without its difficulties when the sovereign is the same person in two or more realms where her ministers may tender divergent or opposing advice on the same subject ; but so far the possibilities involved in these different capacities of the sovereign have not caused embarrassment in practice . |
| 11 | They or their heirs can enforce this contract against one another for the whole period . |
| 12 | The growing gap now means that the elderly people or their relatives must find that difference . |
| 13 | Naturally , either they or their solicitors can use a Scottish solicitor or agent to help them , but unless the debt is sizeable the tendency is to consider this too much time , trouble and expense . |
| 14 | It is also extremely unlikely that today 's political parties or their backers would have either sufficient funds or the desire to use such large sums of money for purchasing newspapers . |
| 15 | On the local councils , water and drainage committees are not among the most prestigious : if importance and utility were the criteria then becoming a member of these committees or their chairmen would carry kudos . |
| 16 | ‘ The applicants or their successor(s) shall ensure that house completions are phased so that a maximum of 30 units are completed per annum , commencing on 1 January 1992 , of which 20 units shall be detached or semi-detached family houses and 10 units shall be flats , all to the satisfaction of the Director of Education , Lothian Regional Council and the Director of Planning , Edinburgh District Council . ’ |
| 17 | For the same reason they have been known to treat surrounding farmland as though it were a vast municipal park across which their dogs can roam or their children can ride their ponies without much thought for the consequences . |
| 18 | He did not spell out what was meant by a limited period , but he will have to tell Hon. Members how long employees will be covered by TOPS before the Minister winds it up and what chance employees or their representatives will have to influence the outcome of negotiations on the way in which the scheme is to be wound up . |
| 19 | The reward for accuracy and good concentration is a program that works and that the child and his or her friends can play . |
| 20 | ‘ You need n't ring her especially , or her parents will think it peculiar if you ring every day to tell her that from me . |
| 21 | The writer who feels that suspense is best suited to his or her talents would do well before setting out , however , to get it clear in his or her own head that suspense is what is to be produced and that the book contemplated will adopt this form , or formula , in preference to any other . |
| 22 | EVERY parent who has ever spent Christmas Day apart from his or her children will know what Princess Diana will go through on December 25 . |
| 23 | Full skirts — goodness knows how many petticoats made walking very hard , so all this almost enforced leisure upon them , and this was again part of the duty of the woman to show that she did n't need to work , she did n't in fact even have to lift a finger because the man or her servants would do all this for her . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , if a good sleep is imperative , say before an important meeting , then a short-acting hypnotic might be helpful ( it needs to be short-acting or its effects might last into the next waking period ) . |
| 25 | Sometimes it went to sleep on the rag rug before the electric fire and snored quietly , or its paws would twitch as it chased rabbits in its sleep . |
| 26 | The more banking is based on the confidence of the customer in the individual bank and the closer , therefore , the bank-customer relationship is , the more severely any misuse of confidential information by a bank or its employees would jeopardize the confidence of present and … future customers of that bank and thereby damage the bank through the loss of business and clients to its competitors . |
| 27 | Ceauşescu elected to exhibit his trophies in the National History Museum in Bucharest , in salons of ‘ homage ’ where his subjects could see the admiration Western democrats felt for their leader . |
| 28 | Despite his immense forces ( though Bede or his sources may have exaggerated Cadwallon 's numerical superiority for dramatic effect ) , it was Cadwallon who proved the more vulnerable , far from home and by now an isolated member of the alliance which had conspired to defeat Eadwine . |
| 29 | ‘ A king or his lords may want more land . |
| 30 | I ca n't think of a reason why the Czar or his advisers should want to murder British agents . |