Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She warns against what can sometimes be a knee-jerk support of abortion technology for fear of playing into the hands of the right wing . |
| 2 | In carbonates preferential solution of some grain types ( e.g. Harris & kendall , 1986 ) occurs in what would otherwise appear to be a chemically homogeneous sediment . |
| 3 | I think Lane was attempting to intimidate me in relation to his further questions , answers to which might otherwise be critical of the police , and in this he partly succeeded . |
| 4 | I know this might sound obscure , but erm , I read somewhere when that erm , if you actually bring in protectionism , it sounds like it could actually increase trade . |
| 5 | AS HE EMBARKS upon what may well be his last Test series as England captain , and his zenith surely reached , one wonders why , apart from various ghost-written ‘ autobiographies ’ . |
| 6 | If his foundation is insecure , as the arguments of the Woods and others would suggest , then the structure he builds upon it must also be unsafe . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It rejects what other conceptions of law accept : that people can have distinctly legal rights as trumps over what would otherwise be the best future properly understood . |
| 10 | Arthur Andersen argues that this ‘ goes beyond what can realistically and responsibly be done … in most cases it will be impracticable . ’ |
| 11 | If it falls over it will certainly be weeks before he flies again . |
| 12 | If it catches on it will certainly be one in the eye for greedy undertakers — after all , you never see a poor one , do you ? ’ |
| 13 | And as time goes by you will probably have to document in detail why the project is behind schedule . |
| 14 | Jesus said , I am the resurrection , and I am the life ; he who believes in me , though he die , yet shall he live , and who ever lives and believes in me shall never die . |
| 15 | ‘ Whoever lives and believes in me will never die ’ John 11:26 ) |
| 16 | The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants , one after another . |