Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if people take account of the costs to themselves but not the burden on the National Health Service in deciding whether or not to smoke and damage their health , society may regard smoking as a merit bad that should be discouraged . |
| 2 | Neither precedent nor legislation is sufficient in its own right ; common-law principles may need codifying in a statute , and a statute will need judicial interpretation to determine the scope of its operation . |
| 3 | That Lefevre should finish lying in a place like this . |
| 4 | And as for yourself , you too should try talking to a friend or relative whom you trust — the chances are that they may already have realised that things are going badly . |
| 5 | It must proceed according to a set of obstacles , a set of rules , that is , through a ‘ process of selection and combination of language ’ , which itself is more bound than mobile in language 's articulated and differential nature . |
| 6 | The main pieces of equipment that might need replacing in a system are the boiler and the radiators . |
| 7 | Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election . |
| 8 | Chamberlain , Baldwin suggested , might consider joining as a minister without portfolio . |
| 9 | I 'll start speaking in a minute . |
| 10 | Yeah she 'll start crying in a minute ! |
| 11 | You make me so miserable — I 'll start crying in a moment . ’ |
| 12 | It 'll start working in a minute , hello , hello hello |
| 13 | Her poor mother was terrified she might start experimenting with a hammer herself when she got home . |
| 14 | ‘ Who 'd want undressing by a maid , ’ said Jessica , ‘ if they had you to do it for them ? |
| 15 | In theory , one action the authorities could consider adopting during a smog is to modify the adverse meteorological conditions or try to remove the pollutants from the air . |
| 16 | It is , as far as he knows , the only way of coming downstairs , but sometimes he feels that there is really another way if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it . ’ |
| 17 | It is , as far as he knows , the only way of coming downstairs , but sometimes he feels that there really is another way , if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it . |
| 18 | You could try writing to a ramp builder , like Rare Unit or Freestyle Ramps for example . |
| 19 | The lads would say they were out of beer money , so I 'd go looking for a booth . |
| 20 | If the product works as advertised , it could promote downsizing with a vengeance . |
| 21 | The , one of the things that we carried forward to do with influencing , erm memories and attitudes , if you 're thinking about in the positive model , positive way , it 'd say going into an situation , I 've been here before , and I was successful . |
| 22 | Still , I wondered how anyone could find sitting for an artist boring . |
| 23 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |
| 24 | However , it has been pointed out by Dr. B. Leadbeater , that great care must be taken before these formulae are used to determine the efficiency of dilution for abatement of odour nuisance , for in order to achieve concentrations below the threshold detection levels some odorants would need diluting by a factor in order of 6,000 , so unless very high chimneys are contemplated this method only provides a limited answer . |
| 25 | No one would mind calling in a doctor of your social standing . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It 's pride , see , not many men would like working for a lady , mind . ’ |
| 27 | Henry wished Mrs Donald ( what was her name ? ) would stop behaving like an extra in Oedipus Rex . |
| 28 | as if in imitation of the dead bird , he would squawk out the name he loved to hear ; he would try walking like a parrot , perching on things , and extending his arms as if he had wings to beat . |
| 29 | Is there anybody who would risk breaking into a house with a burglar alarm ? |
| 30 | At the same time she doubted that Silas was the type of man who would stand listening outside a doorway , and although she recalled his firm declaration of having no intention of marrying Doreen it gave her small comfort . |