Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We suggest that such a characterisation can be developed in terms of a topic framework . |
| 2 | Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation . |
| 3 | Keynes maintained that such a reduction would lead to a more or less equiproportionate reduction in the general level of prices . |
| 4 | Eppelmann and a member of the commission overseeing the dissolution of the Stasi had proposed implementing such a procedure on March 21 , but two days later the state prosecutor , supported by both de Maizière and the PDS-led caretaker government [ for formation of which see p. 37260 ] , maintained that such a step would be unconstitutional and that the new Volkskammer had to decide itself what should be done . |
| 5 | Consistency with the argument presented earlier would seem to demand that such a couple should enjoy all rights and privileges available to a ‘ married ’ couple . |
| 6 | With my colleague , the hon. Member for Glasgow , Govan ( Mr. Sillars ) , in mind , I say that such a process will break up the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | The paper went on the say that such a move would at least give the people who came into the city centre greater reassurance , even if they had to pay for the privilege . |
| 8 | An unexpressed term can be implied if and only if the court finds that the parties must have intended that term to form part of their contract : it is not enough for the court to find that such a term would have been adopted by the parties as reasonable men if it had been suggested to them . |
| 9 | It is reliably reported that such a machine could be heard five miles away . |
| 10 | She accepts that such a change may drastically affect relations with a marriage partner . |
| 11 | Shame that such a thing could happen in one 's own family . |
| 12 | The analysis phase may simply be checking whether such a proposal could be expected to provide the function required . |
| 13 | ‘ Would you not think that such a machine could greatly open up commerce and cultural relationships between Switzerland and Britain ? |
| 14 | It is a remarkable feat of cultural self-assertion to claim that such a culture could be taken to , and disseminated among the " multitudes " , of a feat which only the buoyant sense of the well-evident value of imperial colonization could sustain . |
| 15 | It is intended that such a timetable should be updated and agreed for circulation to staff each April . |
| 16 | Others , like Dr Barclay , a staff surgeon-major , argued that such a system would destroy the men 's self-respect and counteract the good effects of environmental reforms , a position upheld in the report of the 1871 Royal Commission . |
| 17 | Innocent 's imposition of an interdict was parried by the archbishop of Toledo who argued that such a sentence would only encourage heresy and the Muslims , but Innocent did not stop trying to break the marriage . |
| 18 | Industry argued that such a requirement would stymie its competitiveness , and that , in any case , changes in emissions from existing plants would only ever be small-scale . |
| 19 | She added that such a design would cut costs considerably . |
| 20 | They pointed out that local personnel in these fields had no experience in long term caring for such children , and they added that such a conference should be convened without delay , as leaving it until the children were returned home would be too late . |
| 21 | At a joint press conference with Gerlach Havel expressed hopes that the path towards a confederation of the two German states would be taken quickly , but added that such a process would have to be part of a pan-European process , and that the neighbours of both German states must be relieved of all anxiety over a greater Germany . |
| 22 | ‘ You must n't overdo it , ’ Ronni warned her one day , amazed that such a necessity should ever come to pass . |
| 23 | Given free plutonium , the report says that such a plant could generate electricity at 3.1 cents a kilowatt hour ( kWh ) , compared with 3.0 cents a kWh using uranium fuel in a standard reactor . |
| 24 | I hope that such a proposal will form part of the next phase of ‘ Greenway ’ proposals . |
| 25 | I hope that such a project will be a centre for other arts , too . |
| 26 | The researchers hope that such a perspective will throw fresh light on the interaction between work histories and recruitment , credentialism , gender , occupational and social mobility , class and the state in modern Britain . |
| 27 | It is important to remember that such a campaign would be conducted against the background of the economy moving back to full employment , and therefore of an increasing range of job opportunities for school-leavers . |
| 28 | Today , gazing out from Beeston 's summit , you may feel that such a castle must have been impregnable . |
| 29 | The mistake of allied strategists was in imagining that such a regime could possibly be brought to a state of collapse by a decline in popular morale . |
| 30 | It was argued that such a system would generally be more favourable to employees and would be more likely to curb ‘ the exercise of managerial prerogative in the interests of individual job retention as well as avoiding the tendency to legalism ’ . |