Example sentences of "a [noun] [modal v] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A writer must face the terrifying complexity of contemporary life if her fictions or poems are to be relevant to the world today . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A creditor may appoint the official receiver to be his general or special proxy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For instance in setting a pamphlet or a book , a half-page would count the same as a full page . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | To achieve this a user can reference the next approved version of a module in anticipation of that module 's approval . |
| 9 | ( Just how soon after writing a user should sees the recognised text is open to debate . |
| 10 | There is a whole range of ways in which a hearer could recover the required parallelisms . |
| 11 | However , it seems that the relation is not quite the same , for there is no comparable way in which a hearer can express the same wonder or wish by assenting to the sentence as uttered by the speaker . |
| 12 | The command file to be submitted as a batch should contain the following : |
| 13 | The command file to be submitted as a batch should contain the following : where |
| 14 | A poor man who entered into a partnership could complete the first stage in a year to fifteen months ; he could start a partnership with a poorer man in two or three years . |
| 15 | A contractor could use the actual performance when not working under claim conditions to establish what should have been foreseeable . |
| 16 | Striped club colours for the welts , cuffs and armbands for a slipover will add the final touch to success . |
| 17 | It is hard to see what sense there is in , for example , assuming that individuals without a car ought to have the same utilisation of services wherever they live . |
| 18 | A marriage can do the same , provided the couple are prepared to talk things through and really want to make a go of it . |
| 19 | For the ‘ Silver Tours ’ package tour a column would show the inclusive charge to be made to ‘ Silver Tours Ltd ’ for the apartments and meals . |
| 20 | Some parents worry that rewarding good behaviour is a type of bribery , and believe that a child should do the right thing as a matter of course , simply because it is right . |
| 21 | If a child can open the front door , fit an extra lock . |
| 22 | We do it when we decide that the sibling rule — that a child can attend the same school as a brother or sister — does not apply ( the assumption here must surely be that siblings can belong to different species ) . |
| 23 | The mass picketing of Orgreave — a tactic used to discourage the British Steel Corporation ( BSC ) from increasing its daily supplies of coke to its Scunthorpe steel works above a quota already agreed with the miners ’ and steel workers ' unions — was initially characterised by good-humoured pushing and shoving on both sides . |
| 24 | Also a conservatory can improve the overall image and give an extra incentive to attract new customers . |
| 25 | Just as you were getting to like a track he would tune it out periodically , a vehicle would come the other way , its lights flashing furiously . |
| 26 | Even though the cooperative production approach is dissimilar from orthodox business methods , a cooperative must have the same entrepreneurial freedom as an orthodox business enterprise . |
| 27 | Readers interested in more than the bare formula of a dish will appreciate the charming , simple and well explained recipe below . |
| 28 | You know , a dog , when it 's confronted with danger it can , it can fight it 's way out a cat will do the same , every other creature will , will do something when it 's confronted with danger a se , a sheep is so intelligent and is so strong and is , has such a er , a self- preservation er er er |
| 29 | In addition , a purchaser should have the necessary funding support to complete the deal . |
| 30 | But the legal profession is understood to be concerned that such a move would compromise the impartial working of the Forensic Science Laboratories . |