Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [noun] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eyeing George 's face and noticing the beads of perspiration on his top lip he added , ‘ Aah expects as 'ow thoo 'd like ti go back down home wi' thi mother . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps after tonight Marianne would have her desire fulfilled . |
| 3 | A gift of just £12 could provide enough sachets of ORT to save 240 children . |
| 4 | The matter has a long history and is illustrative of how law can lag behind what is thought to be economically desirable . |
| 5 | Concerning the question of how emoluments should differ , the first point to make is that the reward structure in public industries should not ape that in the private sector . |
| 6 | Mr Gorbachev , and others , should remember that a shrinking of American protection for Germany could raise the tricky issue of how Germany will defend itself — including the until now unthinkable thought of German nuclear missiles . |
| 7 | " A more thorough understanding of how teachers can evolve new ways of working as they move from tacit knowledge to practical principles will also contribute to making in-service education more effective . " |
| 8 | This is a purely theoretical stance used by economists not borne out by practical experience of how systems will work . |
| 9 | Ideas of how society should treat its criminals change just as ideas of justice change . |
| 10 | ‘ This project is a good example of how AMEC can offer a total solution to clients by integrating the skills of different parts of the group and focusing them through a bespoke joint venture company , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
| 12 | Without information on what motivates consumers now , they can not make reliable models of how things might change — for example , if labels did stress efficiency and savings . |
| 13 | The Noble Earl , Lord has given one o one illustration of how things might work out in practice , perhaps I could have a shot at another . |
| 14 | But it was the thought of how things should have been between them . |
| 15 | As a comparison , here are two examples from the same set of children of how things can go wrong in the expression of comparison . |
| 16 | Just another example of how things can go . |
| 17 | The most startling illustration of how things can stay the same while they change is found in one of Stein-am-Rhein 's many excellent restaurants . |
| 18 | But for more details of how Dolphin can make your bathroom beautiful , and to qualify for our fabulous free Power Shower or up to £250 trade-in-discount , ask for our free Home Design Service now . |
| 19 | AFTER the razzmatazz of Information Technology year comes the sober assessment of how Britain can remain a force in this discipline . |
| 20 | This is a classic example of how competition can erode profits : rising barriers to entry and high growth do not necessarily make an industry profitable , even for the leaders . |
| 21 | The ‘ Far Eastern ’ memorandum was a superb and elegant paper even though , in its abstract idealizations of how colonialism should have come to an end , it sounded rather like a secular Sermon on the Mount . |
| 22 | This belief provides a rationalisation of how man ought to relate to technology and the enterprises which employ them . |
| 23 | Though this neatly solves the problem of how man can make history while at the same time history makes him , it does not answer the larger question of how a multiplicity of the products of individual acts , ‘ totalizations ’ , can themselves be totalized into the overall totalization required by the logic of dialectical rationality — rather than being the arbitrary , blind and self-cancelling movements of , say , Hardy 's immanent will . |
| 24 | The Edwardian and Progressive eras were rife with ideas of how film could develop but of all the possibilities the only thing that happened was that the showmen hung on to what they had discovered . |
| 25 | We get a glimpse of how history might seem to the most virtuous , and most pagan , of virtuous pagans — an odd effect in , but not at all a contradiction to ‘ a fundamentally religious and Catholic work ’ . |
| 26 | Lake Manyara , ringed by crusty salt deposits , is an excellent contemporary example of how Olduvai must have looked two million years ago . |
| 27 | Huxley had been suspicious of evolutionism because he could see no plausible explanation of how species might change , and he welcomed Darwin 's theory with open arms because it offered a new hypothesis that confirmed the scientist 's right to treat the origin of species as a problem susceptible to natural explanation . |
| 28 | To give you an idea of how Zack would overcome a barrier blocking an exit , you would look at the colour of the barrier and match it with a coloured button . |
| 29 | The bipolar outflow model does however raise the question of how molecules can survive in a strong shock in a medium with the extremely high velocity of 1,000km s -1 ( for comparison , the sound velocity in interstellar space is only a few kilometres per second ) . |
| 30 | This ‘ instinctive revulsion from regulation ’ is the foundation of his libertarian heritage and it gives rise to a particular vision of how broadcasting should develop and what its purposes should be . |