Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] in a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | In previous years the selection of the carnival queen had been organised by elimination contests in the town and surrounding villages , but 30 years ago the committee asked that young ladies should send in a copy of a recent photograph . |
2 | ‘ It was like a collective , you could either buy the porn through the mail , or you could send in a tape of yourself and get plugged into the apparatus that way , ’ explains David James , a film professor at the University of Southern California , who has researched the phenomenon . |
3 | The assumption was that she would bring in a number of new people whose loyalty she could count on . |
4 | Araminta is fey , and Dermot is ‘ hopeless ’ , and their death is artistically right , and no one will bring in a verdict of wilful murder against you — although you have a strong motive to kill them . |
5 | Er so if you look at their smoking erm people can fill in a kind of smoking chart in which you look at that . |