Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Would you not think that such a machine could greatly open up commerce and cultural relationships between Switzerland and Britain ?
2 Today , gazing out from Beeston 's summit , you may feel that such a castle must have been impregnable .
3 I do not believe that such a case will ever be found .
4 Carrington did not believe that such a thing could happen , or would .
5 However , we shall see that such a policy may suffer from the disadvantage of being inflationary .
6 It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying .
7 Only time will tell whether such a plan will create the schools our children deserve .
8 Does he not agree that such a programme could , amongst other things , establish an effective linkage between western support for economic development and the response from the newly independent states in terms of schedules for comprehensive , verifiable , and quicker disarmament ?
9 Thirdly , our young painter would not know of any other artistic centre beside Paris and would not imagine that such a place might exist .
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