Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] [modal v] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only someone would invent a lubricating oil for bird watchers … |
| 2 | Perhaps one can have a personal ioniser that clips on the lapel or the belt . |
| 3 | Perhaps one should have an artificial menopause and be done with them altogether . |
| 4 | If only one could apply the same tests to people , she thought , and of course in a way one did ; but as life went on this kind of choice came to be a luxury — one took what came one 's way . |
| 5 | The outcome was clearly welcomed by those with liberal sentiments : for however much one may deplore the sexual activities of young teenagers , there can surely be little doubt that the protection of such a girl from an unwanted pregnancy must be a matter of primary importance , and , therefore , if need be , have precedence not only over the right of parents to give or withhold consent , but even over the right to information regarding their child , for whom they are legally responsible . |
| 6 | For heterosexuals up to 1991 , the peak of HIV infection had yet to be reached and so one can expect a continued rise in the annual incidence of AIDS cases for some time to come . |
| 7 | For example , scales a tritone or a semitone apart have only two notes in common ; all other notes are different , and so one can expect a considerable degree of conflict unless ( as in the Bartók example ) adequate vertical consonance can be maintained . |
| 8 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |
| 9 | Already one can see the old ‘ paternalism ’ of the industry with its hierarchies and job guarantees having to give way to different business practices which take greater account of technical exigencies . |
| 10 | Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR . |
| 11 | Even though companies ' actions are the result of a substantial contribution of views from many people it is surprising how often one can predict the competitive gambits from knowledge of the characteristics and prejudices of the leader . |
| 12 | Now one must go a long way upriver to find them , far into Sudan and Uganda . |
| 13 | Equally one might expect the full-time paid CAB worker , who normally eschews the middle-class volunteer , to cheer the broadening of the CAB volunteer base . |
| 14 | Indeed , here one can detect a good example of how rich one has to be to be poor : precisely because a poor family can not afford expensive but once-and-for-all repairs ( assuming such repairs to be feasible ) , household maintenance must either be neglected , or undertaken in a cheap but piecemeal fashion , where any improvement is partial and temporary in its effect . |
| 15 | Here one can see the same assumption that Hastings ' power is the king 's power , with a consequent blurring of the two retinues . |
| 16 | Here one can see the same assumption that Hastings ' power is the king 's power , with a consequent blurring of the two retinues . |
| 17 | Today one can enjoy a relaxing boat tour around the harbour . |
| 18 | If terms that differ in form must differ in meaning , then one should find no true synonyms . |
| 19 | It surely could not be that McNab was confounded , utterly at a loss , for surely almost anyone could string a few medical terms together ( enough to convince the survivors of Krishnapur if not the Royal College of Physicians ) and save face . |
| 20 | One may say that , if Alexander improved the way he used himself , then anyone can do the same thing . |
| 21 | Yet nothing could alter the double personal difficulty — a difference of principles between a low churchman and a high churchman , and an indefinable difference of temperament . |
| 22 | Firstly one must determine the grammatical categories of the words in the lattice . |
| 23 | Otherwise one might make a statistical correction or even hope that its effect is small , i.e. discrimination might be good enough even when light is lost due to blocking . |
| 24 | Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties . |
| 25 | Therefore one must provide a substantial quantity of this . |