Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [modal v] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only now that men and women are beginning to realize that representative institutions are not necessarily guardians of freedom but can themselves become engines of tyranny . |
| 2 | Some six months later an anguished letter arrived from the United States in which she said that since arriving in the USA she had barely had two weeks without an attack of herpes and could she possibly attend again when she was next in England . |
| 3 | Grateful to the minister for that reply but would he not agree with me that where local authorities erm local chambers of commerce and trades councils er and his own department of employment , are already working well together with good small initiatives , to put upon them English Estates , TECs , British coal enterprise er is in fact to do precisely what he does not advocate to make a mushrooming of bureaucracy and will he not undertake to evaluate these initiative to see if they really do work or whether they 're just providing jobs for the boys . |
| 4 | They were both quiet for a long time both thinking much the same thing : was such a pretence a way of beginning or would it destroy the might have-been ? |
| 5 | Can these changes stem from enlightened rethinking of principles or must they follow a collapse of the EEC and the present economy ? |
| 6 | I reminded her of Bobbie and would I mind if she called me by that dear nickname ? |
| 7 | Indeed , that ‘ as if ’ model is an important part of the act of communication and must itself be treated as an object of study . |
| 8 | Are you alright , taking that in place of Jenny or would you like |
| 9 | I wonder if you are familiar with this type of thing and could it be applied to computer video outputs . |
| 10 | The distinction is clearest if we anticipate ideas about turbulence energy in Section 19.3 : the new turbulence at the edge of a spot acquires its energy not by transfer from the spot but by generation of fluctuations that can themselves extract energy from the mean motion . |
| 11 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 12 | If you are touring down a remote gorge do you choose a technique which gives maximum force and a high risk of injury or would you prefer a slightly less powerful stroke and a reduced risk of shoulder dislocation ? |