Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is indeed the same relativism in physics and in morals , should not one individual 's choice in his particular situation be as unimpugnably right or wrong as his measurements of distance and duration ? |
| 2 | Should not one of the objectives of our privatisation programme be to give British Coal , or whoever the private company may be , the freedom to produce electricity from its coal and to sell that electricity through the national grid ? |
| 3 | To meet the threat that NT will pose , the Unix providers should back one thread of the operating system and unite around it , House argues . |
| 4 | Oh , he must about ninety . |
| 5 | I suppose I must look like him must n't I |
| 6 | Why should n't 1 ? |
| 7 | ‘ I should have phoned , should n't 1 ? ’ |
| 8 | I slept with only one dream , exulting in the thought that if I could do this , why should n't I one day try to do something to help Clare to walk more easily ? |
| 9 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 10 | I am not saying he might not one day be the best player for England — but at the moment he is n't . |
| 11 | ‘ Someone asked me recently , ‘ Would you ever get married again ? ’ and I said , ‘ Sure , I might possibly one day ’ but I have no immediate plans , ’ he growls warily . |
| 12 | Erm , she 'll about seventy-six , seventy-seven . |
| 13 | Might even two years . |
| 14 | We just thought you might okay one travel warrants . |
| 15 | Well you 'd naturally one or two just to see if they 're in what they want . |
| 16 | So can you g tell me any numbers that you could any two numbers you could multiply together to make twelve . |
| 17 | Groups of figures could as one word , eg. equals 3 words . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're saying that if , with my mathematical mind , I can say that I have seen five percent of love at Bristol , why could n't one person contain one hundred percent of love . ’ |
| 19 | You could n't one disk , what he 's got |
| 20 | I could have let you in for it then , could n't I ! ’ |
| 21 | Twenty need replacement of both joints ( bilateral ) ; the remainder need only one . |
| 22 | She may even one day be able to form a real friendship with her estranged husband . |
| 23 | As we biotechnologicalise our existing forces of production we may well one day come to extend Marx 's aphorism by adding : and the advanced bioreactor ( fermenter ) gives you society with the Ecotopian . |
| 24 | Of what use would just one of these faculties be without the others ? |
| 25 | But would not nine do ? |
| 26 | With all his elaborate political machinery — his control of all the tradesmen in the town and of all the town 's six advowsons , his ownership of some two hundred houses each carrying a vote , his absolute control of the Mayor , the corporation and all the corporation offices — the Marquess of Exeter could not be absolutely certain that the remaining voters would not one day oust his candidates . |
| 27 | Would not one way to meet the increasing demand for female representation be to have two permanent secretaries — a man and a woman — at each Department ? |
| 28 | Thou shall not 3 putt |
| 29 | I wonder if that 's everyone 's experience ? , would , would any one agree or , or disagree with that ? , |
| 30 | Once , she had thought of herself as so English that however happy she was abroad and even if married to an Italian she would always one day gravitate home . |