Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] as [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The second attribute is that each paragraph should have as a first sentence a brief statement or at least an indication of what the paragraph is to consider .
2 What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 .
3 If this chemical were released into the air surrounding the leaves , it would act as a first line of defence , repelling aphids with an eye on predation .
4 Within the next 18 months to two years , this will change as the first wave of line cards are installed that support ISDN directly , with the result that residential customers should get a more enthusiastic response when they enquire about the technology .
5 There might seem to be a number of inherent problems in producing a journal on British Surrealism , namely that the possibility of live interviews will diminish as the first generation of these artists and writers die off in the next few years ; secondly , there seems to be a tendency on the part of those who produce surrealist literature to make it look surrealist , although the rather bitty appearance of the present journal is probably as much to do with its very low budget ( a small grant from the University of London ) as with its artistic affiliations .
6 This association means that primary gastric MALT lymphoma can develop as a second neoplasm or that other neoplasms can occur in both treated and untreated patients with gastric lymphoma .
7 In the same way that there are rules within sentences , limiting which words can follow others , so there might also be rules within discourses , limiting which sentence can follow another one , and if I write ‘ The knight killed the dragon ’ , then there might be limits , or constraints , on what I can put as the next sentence .
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