Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [adj] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existence of such a rule of recognition may take any of a huge variety of forms , simple or complex . |
| 2 | When these shops close down for the night , the sound of heavy breathing from their stock must rival that of a porn cinema . |
| 3 | I do n't imagine the dictionary would draw much of a distinction between the two trades . ’ |
| 4 | On scenting an alarm pheromone , an ant may do any of a variety of things : it may run away from the source of the scent ; it may freeze and ‘ play dead ’ , or it may run towards the source of the scent and attack any nearby enemies . |
| 5 | Some in the profession believe that with unemployment or underemployment among Scottish architects , overseas work could become more of a necessity than an option as time goes on . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not sure that the extra hours will bring in significant extra business , but staff will have to be paid for longer hours and security will become more of a problem . |
| 7 | Properly processed and buried nuclear waste will provide less of a pollution risk than the radiation-filled environment which we inhabit at present . |
| 8 | THE MORNING after what ranked as quite possibly the worst night out one person can have short of a lobotomy , I arrived in H.P. Central to find this lying on my desk . |
| 9 | Different clothes would be the end of things as they were , the baby would become more of a reality . |
| 10 | In certain cases , the Government will guarantee most of a loan , which makes it possible for us to lend in circumstances where we would ordinarily not do so . |
| 11 | In such instances the Church can become more of a barrier than a channel in the communication of the gospel . |
| 12 | Likewise , those leisure companies with operations outside the South East may experience less of a slow down . |
| 13 | In relation to those enquiries which have a legal content , a Citizens ’ Advice Bureau may adopt one of a number of approaches . |
| 14 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 15 | The program can load any of a dozen formats and convert the image to any other output style . |
| 16 | This whole business of sex education and teaching morality in schools , do you think it is the school 's responsibility or do you think mum and dad ought to play more of a part ? |
| 17 | At any age an individual could enter one of a number of states such as university , work or a polytechnic . |
| 18 | Surprisingly , this is true of both the classical and modern play , though you might expect that the obscurities and difficulties of words and expression would prove more of a stumbling block in , say , Shakespeare or Ben Jonson . |
| 19 | In the early stages of pregnancy , or even at conception itself , a mother may become aware of a living presence within her body , sensing its spirit before there are any physical symptoms at all . |
| 20 | Content — however radical — can always be appropriated by the existing cultural powers ; for Benjamin , then , cultural politics must become more of a running guerrilla war , in which any appropriate materials , tactics , techniques and relationships may be used . |