Example sentences of "a [noun] [modal v] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A prince can mak a belted knight , |
| 2 | A lectern should have a minimum depth of 38cm and a minimum width of 5Ocm — space to hold two A4 sheets alongside each other — and a ‘ lip ’ of at least 1.5cm to stop papers sliding off onto the floor . |
| 3 | Experience with Atlantean buses suggested that a driver could operate a double-deck vehicle , and this principle was applied to 761 . |
| 4 | This is equivalent in terms of the effect on the total physical capital stock to reducing b by , and we can see from ( 8–56 ) that such a reduction would have an equivalent effect on the government budget constraint . |
| 5 | We are keenly aware that a University can seem a large and forbidding place to those on the outside . |
| 6 | A writer must face the terrifying complexity of contemporary life if her fictions or poems are to be relevant to the world today . |
| 7 | Such a measure would have a dramatic impact . |
| 8 | Such a hypothesis could explain the paradoxical inverse relation between serum cholesterol concentrations and colorectal carcinomas detected in certain western , or at least ‘ westernised ’ populations . |
| 9 | We are a long way from the time where a computer could pass a reasonable judgement on the quality of an electronic document . |
| 10 | These views gave additional weight to the argument that the MINSE analysis should address the issue of defining how a computer could support the organisational objectives . |
| 11 | In drug addiction a sufferer may use a regular daily quantity of drug , a single dose of which might kill a non-addicted person . |
| 12 | The first was based on the concept that a contract might contain a fundamental term — a core obligation — so that a failure to perform the fundamental term would amount to a total failure to perform the contract . |
| 13 | A creditor may appoint the official receiver to be his general or special proxy . |
| 14 | By way of preparation , a buyer should perform a thorough valuation exercise and define a range of prices within which a sensible deal can be struck . |
| 15 | Actual dislike of a specialty will produce a negative student who does not want to learn . |
| 16 | A great critic may evoke what it was like to attend a historic performance , but only a genius can provide an equivalent emotional experience . |
| 17 | Among mice , the merest whiff of a male can have a devastating effect . |
| 18 | If incoming fire shall overload our void shields and damage our Titan , if the feedback dampers shall fail too , then a Moderatus will suffer the intense agony of pseudo-injury . |
| 19 | For instance in setting a pamphlet or a book , a half-page would count the same as a full page . |
| 20 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
| 21 | Such a change would set the final seal on what is perhaps the most radical transformation Japan has gone through in the last few decades : the disappearance of the farming community as a fundamental axis of politics , the economy and society and the emergence of Japan as a fully-fledged urban , industrial society . |
| 22 | A user may have a deep knowledge of business problems , but knowing little about computers , has no idea how they should be tackled . |
| 23 | This flexibility is very important as it is only by changing mode in the middle of a session that a user can vary an earlier trail to explore the text in a new manner . |
| 24 | To achieve this a user can reference the next approved version of a module in anticipation of that module 's approval . |
| 25 | ( Just how soon after writing a user should sees the recognised text is open to debate . |
| 26 | Such a re-survey would provide a unique source of information on the nature and extent of changes experienced by the small holding sector during the last two decades . |
| 27 | In theory a statute could do no more than declare existing law ; and statutes were cast in a declaratory form . |
| 28 | Such a conception should embrace a whole range of programmes and contents from Shakespeare to Minder , for ‘ without such breadth public service broadcasting can become élitist and authoritarian ’ . |
| 29 | Moreover , such a demonstration would produce an accessible shop window of ‘ green ’ street environments which could have just as dramatic an effect on the way we think about our public spaces as it has done for the Germans . |
| 30 | The desire to complement the relative strengths and frailties of a practice may commend a true amalgamation of firms of more or less equal standing with the aim of providing a more comprehensive service at a higher standard . |