Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is no intrinsic reason why all parts of a course should try to strike that balance . |
| 2 | In these early days of computer-based teaching units when there is very little effective material available , it is likely that any school with a computer will try to collect such material but then it will not necessarily reach all the relevant subject teachers ; the chance of getting to H2 and browsing through the program will then depend on communications within the school . |
| 3 | Going in the other direction , say from English into Arabic , a translator should try to find some way of conveying the emphasis attached to a fronted predicator . |
| 4 | While emphasising the interdependence between semantic expres-sions and underlying cognitive concepts , this approach also implies that not all of a child 's understanding of a particular experience may be expressed in language , and that a child may intend to express more than she is actually able to encode formally in language structures . |
| 5 | Such a body would have to consider all the implications of bio-technologies . |
| 6 | A court would have to decide that issue by reference to the intention of the parties , to sound business practice and to its own judgment as to where the risk should lie . |
| 7 | To be sure of maintaining quality control over this , a manager would need to cover much of the same ground personally , something clearly out of the question . |
| 8 | ‘ A man would have to supply some sort of evidence that he was not a slave to the State , a spy of the KGB . |
| 9 | A man can choose to call any woman dear unless she is directly in authority over him ( thus my male students do not call me dear , though every other male on the planet may do so ) . |
| 10 | He might also inquire how a man can come to regard that which is the main purpose of his life as dispensable just in order to fit into the utilitarian formula . |
| 11 | It is not inconceivable that a government would wish to render all strikes criminal . |
| 12 | A bureau may try to orchestrate those demands by its links with the organizations representing the consumers of its services , thereby affecting the influence which the public have on the revealed preferences of the sponsor . |
| 13 | On the other hand , forecasters in the weather service have access to a lot of non-satellite data — from recording instruments on the ground for instance — which , presumably , a company would need to make any sense of the data from space . |