Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But what ever happens at the end of the day , neither is going on the scrap heap because they are a diamond , so someone will snap up a diamond and it will retain it 's value and they will do very well .
2 It took place quite a long time ago , it is known as the cessation of the plebs there were two occasions on which the workers of of Ancient Rome and withdrew from the city and their t the terms on which as as far as I recollect the terms of their return where that somebody should write down the law in comprehensible terms and that there should be a special officer , a tribune appointed who could if necessary explain what the law was to them .
3 Everyone could cut out a beam that small , it 's child 's play . ’
4 The only way around these is the following peculiar prescription : One must add up the waves for particle histories that are not in the " real " time that you and I experience but take place in what is called imaginary time .
5 This is because it reminded me of the type of frame one might put around a tapestry or sampler , and I feel this symmetrical design is somewhat reminiscent of sampler work and needlework in general .
6 On a clear day Hoy , ‘ the high island ’ , seems so near that one imagines one might stretch out a hand and run fingers down its jagged red cliffs .
7 If I speak out loud my breath hangs in the candle-light , just as though one could snap off a word in a mistily solidified lump as soon as it has been said .
8 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 .
9 By using overlays , one can build up a picture stage by stage .
10 So when we actually got out there , we go out to work in some capacity or another , either to carry out a survey of the logistics or perhaps to sort out and look at the way in which one can set up an immunisation programme in a refugee camp .
11 That depends where on starts from , what the landscape quality is to begin with , whether one can bring about an enhancement .
12 A crystal ball in which one can call up the past ?
13 There needs to be a facility whereby , when one is looking at a particular cross-reference , one can call up the entry or part of an entry to which that cross-reference refers .
14 In so far as one can single out a starting-point in Althusser 's exposition , it is Marx 's critique of homo oeconomicus .
15 One can sum up the position as being that a restraint will be invalid if it is imposed in order to prevent competition simpliciter or the use of personal skill and knowledge of the employee .
16 ‘ I do n't see how anybody can pick up a guitar nowadays and not give some credit to Jimi Hendrix because , at the time — people do n't remember this — but at the time he came out , people were ready to give up the guitar and go onto other instruments .
17 I do n't see how anybody can pick up a guitar nowadays and not give some credit to Jimi Hendrix
18 Linda Lamont , director of the Patients ' Association , added : ‘ Anybody can put up a brass plate and claim to be a doctor in the private sector .
19 That anyone could dream up the notion of quantifying time spent on prayers was indicative of the ‘ scientific ’ attitude of the central authorities , to whose actions in 1922 we now turn briefly before considering the middle level of the local party men in Smolensk .
20 There was all of Mars , practically , if you did n't mind the climate ; and anyone could put up a tube .
21 As Lesley Bell , director of Joint Initiative for Community Care , says : ‘ It is absolutely crazy that anyone can set up a home care agency with no form of regulation whatsoever .
22 Almost anyone can set up a telephone information service .
23 Anyone can set up a letting agency , ’ says David Galsworthy , Vice President of the National Association of Estate Agents .
24 At last nothing can hold back the revolution — the result in his famous phrase is that ‘ the expropriators are expropriated ’ .
25 No-one can turn back the clock .
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