Example sentences of "[subord] one [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples are too numerous to list , but a particularly telling one from members of our own profession , where one might expect some awareness , can serve . |
| 2 | Even in these circumstances , where one might expect unemployed people to be net receivers , McKee shows that they give as well as receive and the list of what they give looks remarkably similar to the list of items which they receive . |
| 3 | It would be impossible administratively to place a higher tax on a given item for those with higher incomes although one could impose indirect taxes mainly on the goods and services consumed by higher-income groups , and perhaps at higher rates . |
| 4 | Although one can say good riddance to it , I do not wish there to be a return to the past , as the Opposition propose . |
| 5 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
| 6 | One can do that if one can identify excessive profits , wage levels which depend on restricting access to labour markets and gross inefficiency in the running of government enterprises . |
| 7 | If one can demonstrate clear relationships between specific patterns of impairment and specific models of normal processing , then , one can use the patterns of impairment as evidence for or against the models , and one can use the models to explain how the patterns of impairment come about — why patients with language disorders behave in certain ways and not in other ways . |
| 8 | ‘ In some ways , they are usually well organised , although I think that one of the features of the indie scene , if one can use that expression , is that bands are used to doing a lot of basic things for themselves . |
| 9 | If one can hazard one generalization from the responses to this question , it is that the early enthusiasm for undergraduate interdisciplinary ventures which was evident in the 1970s has now given way to a more ambivalent attitude , perhaps because the practical institutional and professional problems have become more evident , a view found also in the OECD ‘ Interdisciplinarity Revisited ’ report ( Levin and Lind 1985 ) . |
| 10 | Despite this period there was always a mass of cloud and it was quite normal for us to go down to see if one could identify some feature . |
| 11 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 12 | If one could select those areas where there appears to be the largest proportion of sites which seem to have been affected , they are in Hampshire , Hertfordshire and north Kent , possibly indicating that they suffered the greatest disturbance . |
| 13 | Indeed , if one could find some way of starting the downswing , one could probably hit a satisfactory shot with a club head swung on a chain using the stiffness generated by the tension . |
| 14 | This is the best that can be done to depopulate a matrix below its diagonal ; if one could remove infradiagonal elements as well , there would be no problem in finding eigenvalues and vectors of a matrix . |
| 15 | This result spills over onto the optimal output decision : since one can expect better sales prices with a higher σ or a lower k , one should accordingly produce more output with a higher σ or lower k . |
| 16 | While one might expect eventual decisions to be made purely on the merits of the case , earlier evidence indicates that some objections are more likely to succeed in influencing decision-makers than others . |
| 17 | However , before one can reach this conclusion — one that is refreshingly straightforward and easy to apply — it is necessary to consider the material in rather more detail … |
| 18 | As time went on , and particularly by the early Seventies , I began to question whether one could take this point of view in a situation where things were going on which I clearly saw to be ‘ bad ’ . |
| 19 | A key concern that runs through all these debates and to some extent actually inspired them in the first place is whether one can draw clear boundaries between the social classes . |
| 20 | The question is then posed as to whether one can reconcile that Christology with feminism . |
| 21 | Sizes are imprecise , as one might suppose any material would be if drawn through a hole with a cutting edge ! |
| 22 | Helen postponed telephoning , as one might hoard some delicacy , to savour it the longer in anticipation . |
| 23 | As one might imagine this method was maddeningly inconvenient and very inaccurate . |
| 24 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 25 | Readers of our great Vangmoor novelist , Alfred Osborn Tace ( or viewers , as one must say these days ! ) will be familiar with the scene in Wrenwood in which Brenda Nevil hunts for specimens of this orchid for her bridal bouquet . |