Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bonus may be given because the employee concerned has no pension rights and does not have an enhanced salary already reflecting this or it may just be a reward for satisfactory completion of the contract . |
| 2 | Within a radius of ten miles of West Challow there are at least half a dozen houses that look so similar to this that they must surely have been built by the same hand . |
| 3 | Some of those primitive men are so good at this that they can exactly imitate the different animals , and even other human beings . |
| 4 | As for breast feeding , I feel so strongly about this that I can hardly express myself ! |
| 5 | There is the er the other way of looking at this that you can either change the er sort of C O balance or you can give her some clerical time , because if she can identify clerical work I mean like Diane |
| 6 | Transport has so many social implications of one kind or another that there can never be an arm 's length relationship … |
| 7 | The team will be working on items for this and they will also present two items at an International Festival of Movement to be held in Edinburgh next April . |
| 8 | As she toyed with a pottery unicorn made by Leonora during her stay in Bart 's , Lady Romsey added : ‘ When we knew she was n't going to survive we said , ‘ We will get through this and we will still thank Bart 's . |
| 9 | About getting things to move along , but when you start breaking down what the other aspects are about a lot of things , erm it was good influencing , recognise this and somebody will just suddenly say oh , no nothing nothing to do with influencing , |
| 10 | However States do not always do this and there can also be uncertainty with respect to individual provisions which can be in force as between some parties but not others . |
| 11 | ‘ Here — drink this and you 'll soon feel a great deal better , ’ he added , walking across the room towards her . |
| 12 | And the foreman er we used to play about , lark about , throw orange peel at each other you know , cos it were a boring job you just stand like this and you could more or less close your eyes , you know . |
| 13 | I wish I 'd got some cos I could really do with a hot drink . |
| 14 | You could fire a starting pistol next to some and they would barely look up . |
| 15 | In stratigraphy One is always using one ruler to measure another and one can only call a deposit exceptional if we have something more " normal " with which one can make a comparison . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’ |
| 17 | His sonorous voice and deliberate utterance may to a great extent account for this but it should also be remarked that as Highbury Quadrant was the first church to introduce the Electrophone , perfection has been probably acquired by long practice in the details requisite to success . ’ |
| 18 | I like this because you can actually |
| 19 | Daphne tended to phone her just after six , which meant missing fifteen or twenty minutes of the news , but Cecilia never said anything about this because she would far rather miss the news than hurt Daphne . |
| 20 | Erm , I 'm on this occasion I 'll keep as close to this as I can possibly go . |
| 21 | And those bits again , either tuck them in out of the way or better still fold them over and put a big plaster over the top to get them right out the way so no ends are left dangling , remember for most people you 're doing this for they 'll probably be returning to their place of work , okay , so they need to be safe to return to work , everybody okay on that lot ? |
| 22 | The extraordinary factor in such debates is that at the end of them we get the feeling that there is little that we can actually do to alter the course of events . |
| 23 | The tendency to translate English passive structures literally into a variety of target languages which either have no passive voice as such or which would normally use it with less frequency is often criticized by linguists and by those involved in training translators . |
| 24 | I think we will continue to have a degree of volatility in markets we 've not experienced previously and I think the way the market maker has to interpret his role now is such that we will never get the sort of fine tuning that the old jobbing system could provide . |
| 25 | During the year , strong management of the balance sheet has been maintained to ensure that our financial health is such that we will quickly benefit from any sustained improvement in our markets . |
| 26 | However , the complications involved in setting up micro-linked experiments are such that they should only be used when the educational profit is clear . |
| 27 | Or , put another way , are the Powell conditions too tough — tough not just for Americans , but for those , like Bosnia 's Muslims , whose plight is such that they can plausibly look only to America for salvation ? |
| 28 | As with doctors , there are always nurses whose personal strengths are such that they can openly and lovingly respond to a patient 's pain , grief and distress without needing defences . |
| 29 | The capacity of CFS Aeroengines is such that they can now offer their services on a worldwide basis and are set to take a larger slice of the redial engine business by offering a ‘ one stop ’ service from mags , to props , to accessories , to whole powerplants . |
| 30 | The Roman refining techniques were such that they could easily have produced silver containing only traces of copper ( under 1 per cent ) . |