Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we should note from this is that the 10 per cent prevalence figure , which received considerable publicity during the Cleveland scandal and subsequently , includes a wide range of abuse apart from sexual intercourse . |
| 2 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 3 | One deduction we might draw from this is that the examples of Anderson 's modesty noted above , when seen in the context of his more pompous utterances and these attempts to preserve his academic credibility , are more likely to be viewed simply as superficial politeness strategies than as being genuinely meant . |
| 4 | The creatures might pass for terrestrial were it not for the thick twisted cable-like sensors which connect head and tail and run on either side of the body , lending a machine-like appearance . |
| 5 | The nine Special Issues you 'll receive in 1992 are titled on the calendar overleaf . |
| 6 | That these tensions could arise at all was due to the fact that historically , Parliaments were originally called as a matter of discretion by the monarch . |
| 7 | Nana could make a chocolate drink with cocoa beans and goat 's milk , and that was the only thing Martha could think of that was coloured like her . |
| 8 | They ended up laughing about that , but it was the uneasy laughter of desperation and displacement , and all they could do after that was finish the whisky and have the joint Rory had been working on , and it was almost a relief when Fergus was sick as a dog out of the window , hanging out barfing onto the slates and into the guttering while Rory tried to clean the plaster off the top bunk and stowed the guns out of harm 's way . |
| 9 | However , there is evidence to suggest that some women distrusted other methods of birth control , and particularly that of male withdrawal ; not all women could reckon on either being able to ‘ push him out of the way when I think it 's near ’ , or on their husbands ' constant exercise of self-control . |
| 10 | There was a sort of shame in it : however much you could point to this being done before by dedicated teachers for brilliantly promising pupils — there was still a sort of shame in the boy being farmed out . |
| 11 | Well , the earliest man who used to think like this was Albert . |
| 12 | tourism in West Sussex I mean what would happen to that is just one example er on a broader level , the County Council is working with the European regions to promote West Sussex in Europe and what would happen to that , the only conclusion we could draw is that these policies would crumble and to er seriously affect West Sussex and finally I come back to the point that , that I will keep making , if I ever get the opportunity , namely the cost of this exercise . |
| 13 | How the Federation 's members would respond to this is uncertain . |
| 14 | What you want to do er what you want after that , including marrying again is a separate matter , his primary responsibility and I 'm sure he would agree with this is to the wellbeing of those children |
| 15 | Even today , of course , whether the child will survive at all is still the overriding consideration for millions of mothers in the underdeveloped areas of the world . |
| 16 | Sara , who was born in Bollihope , will appear on That 's Life on March 14 , singing My Baby Just Cares For Me . |
| 17 | The very least you will gain from this is the location of a productive swim . |
| 18 | On the passenger side , interest in the 1990s will centre on Provincial 's split between the highly successful Sprinter Express routes and the also-rans . |
| 19 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 20 | We say , ‘ surely the thought is something ; it is not nothing ‘ ; and all one can answer to this is , that the word ‘ thought ’ has its use , which is of a totally different kind from the use of the word ‘ sentence ’ . |
| 21 | The principle we can distil from this is that thoughts precede actions . |
| 22 | But while Half A Sixpence has a budget of £35,000 , the best any Young Walsingham can expect to received is three pence . |
| 23 | I think all we can do after that is er have a Frank this is er Frank Sinatra and Brazil . |
| 24 | And all I could remember and all the the only thing I can remember about that was running after the car with . |
| 25 | All I can understand from that is that it must be a universal image . |
| 26 | All I can understand from that is that it must be a universal image . |
| 27 | You have declined to give police details of your account for reasons that are best known to yourself and in my view the only inference I can draw from that is that you have the money at least to pay a fine . ’ |
| 28 | One inference we can draw from this is that , setting aside the question of his academic commitment , his public speaking ability appears more impressive than his informal conversational ability . |
| 29 | The only reason I can suggest for this is that they may have ‘ member get member fatigue ’ ; ie it has been used very often in the past and now sees diminishing returns . |
| 30 | I do not mean just dating by this ; there are all sorts of relationships that you can enter into that are just on a one-to-one basis . |