Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to the visit to Merstham , I had hoped that if he were to come all that way , he ought to see something of the country , as it was then still of an unspoilt rural character and in autumn especially beautiful . |
| 2 | For example , a representation of a law court could tell us something about the role of judges , lawyers , jury , witnesses : representations of the silent system within prisons may convey something of the nature of that practice . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Unix System Labs , which has a good server story but may lack something on the desktop end like applications , is reportedly trying to get Quorum interested in Destiny . |
| 4 | We suspect that he may know something about the downing of this plane that we do n't know he knows , if you follow me . |
| 5 | You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him . |
| 6 | But you you must prefer one over the others do you ? |
| 7 | ‘ But what I really do n't understand is why on earth you should think anyone of a sound mind would actually want to gain entry into your very confusing family ! ’ |
| 8 | The scale should cover everything between the pages of a book . |
| 9 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
| 10 | Pearn and I were very concerned to ensure that the troops who would liberate Burma should know something of the country and its people , for the army that fought the retreat in 1942 had had little time to learn any of the background . |
| 11 | We should know something about the periodicity of the variables we are monitoring if we are not to risk either unnecessarily detailed data collection or aliasing of trends ; |
| 12 | So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library . |
| 13 | To do this , he should know something about the probability of sounds being symbolised in one way or another , and which is the most likely way for this set of sounds to be symbolised . |
| 14 | Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us . |
| 15 | We must do everything with the utmost precision , and beauty of tone . |
| 16 | ‘ We must do something about the cuts . |
| 17 | If the Minister is genuinely concerned about maritime safety , he must do something about the massive proposed cuts in the coastguard service . |
| 18 | they must do something about the park court this summer , get the perspex sheeting renew renewed |
| 19 | As I hinted parenthetically following the quotation from Clark , it seems perverse for him to insist that we must choose one at the expense of the other . |
| 20 | She had no idea , until then , why she was acting as she was , or what she suspected , or why , indeed , she should suspect anything but a straight pick-up , and one so simply and attractively engineered as to be quite unalarming ; a normal minor wolf on the prowl , with a long weekend to while away , and an eye cocked for congenial company , preferably intimate , but in any case gratifying . |
| 21 | To overcome these problems users must think of all the various names that might have been applied , and must understand something of the geography and administration of the locality concerned . |
| 22 | This is not necessarily a central problem , but the Kingman Report does recommend that pupils should understand something of the systematic nature of languages other than English . |
| 23 | Whilst treating anyone with remedies they should avoid anything with a strong smell , scent , aroma or perfume . |
| 24 | The notes were taken early on in the research when I was chiefly concerned with documenting pollution control work , thus they should suggest something of the nature of the job — routine tasks as well as special problems — which an officer can encounter on a summer 's day . |
| 25 | There are a number of interrelated reasons , then , why , when one paradigm competes with another ; there is no logically compelling argument that dictates that a rational scientist should abandon one for the other . |
| 26 | Staff must attend one in every three meetings and they are asked to acquaint themselves with what took place if they were absent . |
| 27 | we should have one in The Dog . |
| 28 | So I I I 've said to Margaret , he 's a , I think he must doing something with the extractor fan because he 's cut a hole in the er barge pole so , on the board so obviously |
| 29 | Product shots , too , must have everything in the picture fully identified . |
| 30 | Mr Bob , you must have something under the counter ? ’ |