Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other scenarios , almost everyone could move to low-density countryside houses and communicate via the electronic technology that is already available , or alternatively people could recolonize the countryside and run smallholdings ( Anderson , 1975 ) . |
| 2 | De Sade said that if one wants to know about death one should look at sexual excitement . |
| 3 | It was mentioned earlier that one must distinguish between economic efficiency and cost-cutting . |
| 4 | While one must distinguish between formal access and real accessibility , there are more second routes and second chances , and fewer dead-ends and irreversible choices than in the past , and the whole notion of ‘ stages ’ has to be interpreted in the light of the individual 's self-perception and the increasing fluidity of age-roles . |
| 5 | To understand why he was willing to take such an immense risk with his own reputation as well as with France 's future , one must look beyond personal ambition . |
| 6 | Moreover , it is one of the founding presuppositions of sociology , one might say of social science more generally , that individuals are related to each other rather than isolated . |
| 7 | When I look back I realize just what a hard time Mother must have had because she did not enjoy what one might describe as robust health . |
| 8 | The partial remedy , for no one could think of exhaustive response , was to clear London and other big cities of children aged under fifteen , the sick and the handicapped : all those who were of more hindrance than help to the defence effort . |
| 9 | To follow through , one could subscribe to New Economics , the newsletter of the New Economics Foundation . |
| 10 | No one could listen with cold blood and sluggish pulses to the quickening crescendo of the roar preceding the final shout of ‘ Goal ! ’ |
| 11 | For example , one could write for six-part choir and have three upper and three lower voices in two separate strata , or use a nine:part choir , three different layers of three voices each , etc . |
| 12 | In recognition of the general interest in avoiding the disruptive effect of such proceedings on the public administration no one could apply for judicial review unless they had successfully applied ex parte for leave . |
| 13 | In fact the figure is much better than one would predict from composite theory ( Chapter 8 ) , supposing wood to behave like an artificial composite . |
| 14 | Work is too important and too unsure to be obstructed by the uncertainties of not knowing what is expected and by whom , and by having to continually negotiate what one can do with individual power players . |
| 15 | We must insist on a system of tests that will be for the benefit of the pupils ; that will test what each one can do in practical work and in theoretical understanding ; and will serve as a motive for each to go on to the next stage . |
| 16 | But there 's a whole range of behaviours which one can include in sexual harassment , going from fairly mundane every day things which just grind people down and which grind people down because they happen on a constant basis , to very serious once in a while sorts of behaviours , and to try and categorise them as major or minor does n't really get us very close to being what the issue is about . |
| 17 | But it does not follow that one can predict with complete accuracy the sentence that a judge will pass in a given case . |
| 18 | One can deviate from complete neutrality to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 19 | In summary , one can say beyond reasonable doubt that if one were asked to choose which of Slade 's apprentices is most likely to have made the harpsichord on which Handel rests his elbow , the evidence weighs very heavily in favour of William Smith . |
| 20 | Although as a breed pension providers act very conservatively , and moreover , your money would be protected under the strict rules brought in by the Financial Services Act , no one can forecast with total confidence how well or otherwise any particular investment will do . |
| 21 | The facts that everybody should know about British Aerospace are far more than statistics . |
| 22 | They squat on ragged patches of grass like abandoned containers , painted bright colours , stuffed with more than anyone could want of Do-It-Yourself Equipment , Garden Furniture or , in one case , pure Leather . |
| 23 | Senior partner of a top 20 accountancy firm is as far as anyone can go in public practice . |
| 24 | The reason why this book has not yet been written is that conscious experience of the presence and life of the Spirit among contemporary Christians is so thin and weak and hampered that conditions do not exist in which anyone can write with full-blooded conviction on the subject . |
| 25 | But under the Criminal Law Act 1967 anyone can arrest on reasonable suspicion of an arrestable offence , save that where the arrest is by a private person ( as here ) he must show either ( 1 ) that the arrested person was in fact in the act of committing the offence for which he was arrested , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person to be in the act of committing it , or ( 2 ) the arrested person had in fact committed the offence , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person of having committed the offence and ( in this last case ) the offence had in fact been committed by someone . |
| 26 | In short , a stable and caring society in which everyone can live in reasonable comfort and security and to which everyone contributes according to their means . |