Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 In some cases , a Zuwayi who had unwittingly offended someone would constrain that person to forgive him by offering compensation and sacrificing animals to him .
2 As long as you kept the public happy and there were no complaints — no-one could find any complaints to write into Head Office with — you were doing a good job .
3 ‘ No one should employ unqualified people to carry out work on their homes .
4 Above all , one must avoid any tendency to equate the degree of harm with the degree of physical injury in a particular case , since the psychological harm may be far more severe .
5 By contrast , in many problems the number of possibilities is unbounded and then one must use infinite-dimensional spaces to represent them .
6 Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities .
7 However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow .
8 So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem .
9 If , however , the vertical axis is defined as attainable competitive strength , then one might expect most investment to take place in the top left corner .
10 It could be that one could use cannabis-related compounds to deal with disorders of those phenomena , like memory and so on . ’
11 One would expect such energy to earn him the approval of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem .
12 One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced .
13 One would expect natural selection to have eliminated the characteristic .
14 In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district .
15 One would expect some cases to get widespread coverage , especially when there is serious re-offending after a previous life sentence .
16 On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 .
17 Everybody would have enough land to reach subsistence level , everybody would be a capitalist
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