Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [noun sg] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other Nikiyas — Durante or Guillem — may for instance assume a charming Oriental fluidity in their arms , but only Asylnuratova 's urgency and amplitude of gesture can convey the destructive extremes of Nikiya 's nature . |
| 2 | A spelling corrector must of necessity use a lexicon . |
| 3 | There is a powerful argument that as far as sexual behaviour is concerned , an area in which consent makes the difference between gross violation and shared pleasure , and in which physical proximity makes it relatively easy to ask about consent , the law should in effect impose a duty to enquire . |
| 4 | A local education authority must by law appoint a chief education officer ( Regan 1979:28 ) : the people appointed assume responsibilities within the major spending service provided by local government . |
| 5 | For all its frequent invocation as the ‘ concrete ’ , history must by definition entail a problematic represencing of an absence ; Derrida therefore argues that , even in its ‘ materialist ’ conceptualization , it can not avoid a certain metaphysics . |
| 6 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 7 | You might for example have a card on the theme/keyword " the sublime " , including notes drawn from a number of different books . |
| 8 | It was becoming a habit , and might in time become a tradition . |
| 9 | DOOR staff at nightclubs and pubs in Cleveland might in future need a licence to work in the county . |
| 10 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 11 | In so doing it might by accident precipitate a general war , one from which the United States might emerge victorious , but which would leave Britain and Europe a radioactive desert . |
| 12 | A teacher with a video machine in the classroom has the choice of when to use video material and could for example use a sequence with an appropriate setting to establish a context before new language items are introduced . |
| 13 | Designed to explore possible relationships between the NATO alliance and east European countries , the meeting was also warned by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Uli Kvitsinski that NATO in a post-Cold War world should not aim to build up a " super bloc " which could in turn provoke a " fortress Soviet Union " response . |
| 14 | One could in fact make a nearly completely correct prediction . |
| 15 | And it was suggested by the er two officers that were present , that that could , that money that 's already there , could in fact get a third of the scheme done , the third which was the bisecting little path , the main trees across the front , and the bit of the paving that takes you over to the North Road . |
| 16 | You could in fact devise a circular walk on a grand scale using the two paths . |
| 17 | Class III stations could in fact exhibit a great diversity of style and size , while many a class IV , like that at Shumikha , could seem little different in scale . |
| 18 | We could in fact formulate a priority which required this possibility of modification . |
| 19 | So that 's his ten thousand investment income , well that 's fine , you know , no problem , and there is a marginal rate here which you could in fact reclaim a bit of tax on twenty percent . |
| 20 | Since emotion and thought are regulated by a complex system of transmissions between nerve cells , and since acute stress can lead to an increase in dopamine turnover , this could in theory precipitate a psychotic episode . |
| 21 | Pursuing the image further than the modesty of Wesley would permit , we could in theory have a manner of writing in which there is no style , in which content is presented in its nakedness.A more recent variant of this view is that of French stylisticians such as Bally and Riffaterre , that style is that expressive or emotive element of language which is added to the neutral presentation of the message itself . |
| 22 | We could by measurement give a numerical specification of each of the parts of the causal circumstance-the operation of the heater , its relative location , and so on-and also such a specification of the effect . |
| 23 | Large-scale redundancies , particularly where the company employs a sizeable proportion of the workforce , are liable to result in a substantial reduction in local purchasing power ; this may in turn have a knock-on effect on other local businesses and on local tax revenues and hence municipally-provided services , and the ensuing high level of unemployment is likely to contribute more generally to a weakening of community relations . |
| 24 | Close links with Heidelberg , the major German printing press manufacturer , give us hope that we may in time become a test-bed for Direct Imaging driven from our Macintosh pre-press system . |
| 25 | The growth of self-help credit unions , much helped by the Credit Unions Act 1979 , may in future give a lower-cost credit option to many more of the weekly-paid , especially as they allow personal weekly payments of instalments . |
| 26 | Indeed in terms of marginal rates of taxation , i.e. the proportion of any additional earnings that are taxed , those on below-average incomes may in fact suffer a rate higher than those on incomes in excess of £17,200 . |
| 27 | This is often regarded as a minor energy consumer , but it may in fact represent a significant proportion of the total electrical load in a laboratory . |
| 28 | Commentators do not have the guaranteed ability to influence directly the competitive environment , although , of course , they may over time have a significant indirect influence . |
| 29 | But the qualifications were elastic ; anyone who could ‘ live without manuell labour , and thereto is able and will beare the port , charge , and countenance of a gentleman , he shall for monie haue a cote and armes bestowed vpon him by heralds and therevnto being made so good cheape be called master and reputed for a gentleman euer after ’ . |
| 30 | Another Italian deal sounding alarm bells is one announced over the weekend under which Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale SpA , IRI , will lend some 42 pct of Banca Commerciale Italiana SpA to telecommunications holding company STET SpA for three years and STET will pay IRI $212m for the dividend flow from 440m BCI ordinary shares — by juggling the dividend flow , tax credits on the payments and amortisation , analysts reckoned STET stood to gain to the tune of $300m and IRI would in return get a much needed cash injection , but the move is seen as a panic measure by IRI . |