Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore one may remark on the fact that that which is considered ‘ feminine ’ , which the male also now takes on , corresponds simply to what have traditionally been women 's tasks ( nurturing and caring ) .
2 Perhaps everything would change like the names once she was out of their net .
3 Suddenly one would leap onto a bale of hay and exclaim , ‘ I know , kids , why do n't we do the show right here … ? ’
4 Proceeding by trial and error ; thus one might speak of a heuristic approach to teaching grammar .
5 One ambiguity which runs through most definitions , as it does with the word ‘ course ’ , is whether one is referring to the total package of studies or only one element in it ; thus one can speak of the undergraduate curriculum or the history curriculum .
6 Always one must look to the future . ’
7 It is important to understand that the ratio decidendi of a particular case is not wholly to be found in the case itself ; rather one must look to the way in which later courts interpret the case .
8 Have you ever noticed that when Christians speak about how they became followers of Jesus , nearly everyone will concentrate on the moment when they faced that crisis , and made their decision ?
9 Health campaigners point out that nearly everybody will benefit from a small amount of exercise .
10 Er everybody or nearly everybody used to go to the pawnshop .
11 There are difficulties in identifying areas common to the brains of people and other animals and , even when that can be done , it is unclear how far one can rely on the areas working in exactly the same way .
12 Now one can speak of the development of autonomous ‘ life-orders ’ or ‘ value-spheres ’ , and in particular of the eighteenth-century autonomization of theoretical , ethical , and aesthetic spheres .
13 To give meaning in prototype theory is to determine how far something can differ from the prototype and still be a member of the class .
14 Well everybody ought to go to the dentist if they want to keep their teeth nice and healthy .
15 If people are n't interested in , in evaluation of something that concerns them , then nothing will happen at the end of it .
16 If people are n't interested in an evaluation of something that concerns them , then nothing will happen at the end of it .
17 Almost everyone will work for the group , rather than a specific title .
18 Maybe somebody would come to the library and that might be the spur that they need " .
19 Nonetheless there is a tendency within the academic establishment to regard the exposition of the black-letter law and the exhaustive analyses of concepts as the totality of the concerns of the academic criminal lawyer ; indeed one may speak of an attempt , conscious or otherwise , to distort the data to fit the expositor 's ideal .
20 Beethoven is unthinkable without the tradition of western music , indeed one might say without the very specific background of late eighteenth-century music in Vienna .
21 No I think just dedication and we , if we made an appearance maybe something would come to a head , things would get sorted , if we just said forget it then stay at home , then the quarry managers would say right forget it , we 'll get another workforce in , you know it was , I think it was just I think some were dedicated to the job and sort of gave it their best , whereas others were slightly you know , willy nilly about it and well I 'll turn up today cos it the weather looks nice , or I 'll turn up today because the wife is n't off and or the gas has run out or whatever .
22 There may well be a modest marble tombstone for Mr Dowd somewhere in Saratoga Springs ; but each time the television continuity announcer advertises a forthcoming programme as showing at ‘ 9 pm Eastern , 8 Central and Mountain ’ then one might say of the late Professor , si monumentum requiris , circumspice .
23 In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most .
24 Except in the case of rent arrears , almost anyone can act as a private bailiff .
25 The shop itself was a small , white-washed room with shelves along the walls stacked with sheets of parchment , ink horns , pumice stones , quills , and everything else one would need in a library or chancery .
26 In the sense of working together on common tasks partnership is a banal truism — of course both central and local government are involved in education , housing , transport , social services etc. but having said that there is little else one can say under the umbrella of partnership .
27 Instead one would work to the lowest common skill denominator — the basis of modernist organization — and minimize the costs of labour turnover not through minimizing the labour transfers but through minimizing training costs and skills .
28 A taut fusion of garrotted guitars , drum machine dynamics and half-hidden melodies , this is a spectacular , sensual starting point with slow bits and crazed barrages and everything else anyone could want from a slab of noise terrorism .
29 Occasionally one would disappear in the direction of the High Street , casting about for an interesting sniff , hoping perhaps to discover a fox in the vicinity of the cut-price chemist .
30 Much of this was ‘ own label ’ merchandise of course , but occasionally one would come across a familiar branded item , at about half the price of those at home .
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