Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the certainties of hopelessness may paradoxically appear as a form of hope , promising to make reasonable what is unreasonable , namely hopelessness itself . |
| 2 | The exploitation of ethnicity may perhaps work as a form of primitive accumulation of cultural capital , but it does nothing to enlarge the audience or scope of such work , which is why most artists and writers of any stature have rejected this appellation , even if they have benefited indirectly from it . |
| 3 | Sec. should rather arrange for a pattern of feedback that will keep him continuously informed of actions taken . |
| 4 | I was on the grass below the paddock when Ronnie 's car pulled off the road with a completely inexplicable failure : inexplicable in that Ronnie could find no reason why his car , which had been going so well , should suddenly come to a halt . |
| 5 | Ellen wondered if she should perhaps look for a replacement , but put it off . |
| 6 | However campers should only stay for a night or two , be unobtrusive and sensitive to wildlife , and leave no litter . |
| 7 | On the other hand , such an authority must act in good faith , use the powers for the purpose for which they were given , take into account relevant matters and disregard the irrelevant , and must not act in a way so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could have so acted . |
| 8 | Before leaving philosophical treatments of indexicals , we should just point to a subject of deep theoretical importance which lies well beyond the scope of this book — namely , the connection of indexical reference to the fundamentals of reference in general . |
| 9 | But it should not lead to a price rise in British shops , said industry leaders . |
| 10 | Consequently , one lesson to criminal law from legal theory is that it should not aim at a comprehensiveness inconsistent with its subject-matter . |
| 11 | As most of the pontoons are rented to local yacht owners or associations one should not dock at a slip unless permitted to do so by the port police . |
| 12 | In most circumstances internal KPMG referrals or requests for limited assistance from other offices , such as an introduction to an existing client or provision of non proprietary knowledge gained from a previous assignment , should not result in a fee being paid by the originating office to the receiving office . |
| 13 | However , word hypotheses compete on the Chart , not in the lexicon , so this similarity of status should not matter from a processing point of view . |
| 14 | Unless a serious breach of your contract has taken place , or your employer has made it clear that it will take place , you should not leave in a huff . |
| 15 | There are occasions when a councillor should not serve on a committee . |
| 16 | It really should not come as a surprise to find Lewis , who continues his professional career tonight against Bradford 's Steve Garber at Hull City Hall , owning up to such an unexpected hobby . |
| 17 | Whether or not Ruddock was suffering from any residual Tyson damage , it should not detract from a Lewis performance that was an awesome demonstration of boxing technique , punching power and admirable concentration . |
| 18 | This type of criticism should not apply in a database environment . |
| 19 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |
| 20 | Many treaties are incidentally unfavourable to non-parties , but a third party generally has no grounds for claiming that other States should not enter into a treaty . |
| 21 | If you do not pay income tax , but your spouse does , you should not enter into a Deed of Covenant on your own . |
| 22 | This resonated with his reading of Romantic poets such as Wordsworth , who also expressed a concern that science should not degenerate into a search for mere details . |
| 23 | The acquirer should not agree to a clause which states that if by completion it is aware of a breach of warranty and it still elects to proceed to completion it thereby waives any claim for damages . |
| 24 | When a person 's property is insufficient for payment of his debts , it would obviously be unfair that the creditors who first obtain judgement and execution should be paid in full , leaving nothing to those who may try to enforce their claims later ; nor is it desirable that a man should indefinitely remain under a load of debts which ( it may be through no fault of his own ) he is unable to meet . |
| 25 | 4.12 Employees who search empty property in order to safeguard any valuables or money must always go with a colleague . |
| 26 | This entire magazine is aimed at unlocking the mind-set that says : overpopulation is the Third World 's worst problem , that therefore the poor have only themselves to blame for their poverty , and that therefore the solution should always begin with a family planning programme . |
| 27 | This is the very last thing that should ever suffer in a time of recession or emergency when people 's belts have to tighten . |
| 28 | This would mean that the atom , and indeed all matter , should rapidly collapse to a state of very high density . |
| 29 | Any geometric changes should automatically result in a change to the pictorial view being displayed on the operator 's workstation . |
| 30 | If diplomacy is to function in war , then the Armed Forces must also serve as a tool of policy in time and peace . |