Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [modal v] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of seeing Hollywood as a powerful rival to be confronted and challenged , British producers have too often looked upon the US film industry as a much-wooed lady who will one day fall into their arms . |
| 2 | He will send the Conablaiche to kill every male child in Ireland , ’ said Fael-Inis , ‘ for he believes that in that way , he will kill the child who will one day rise up to challenge him . ’ |
| 3 | She had caught a glimpse of Heaven ; had seen adoration and more in the gaze of a handsome prince who would one day be king of England . |
| 4 | For Tara , and for Ireland , and for the world of the Future , and perhaps also for the legendary Lost Prince who will one day rise up and defeat Medoc … |
| 5 | ‘ Both the Eldar and the Slann should be grateful to know about this weapon which would one day be launched against them . ’ |
| 6 | What a shame it must one day become reality — it will never match these views for charm and elegance . |
| 7 | Ifor the idol he would one day have to dislodge . |
| 8 | At the time , you sent us a delightful card , which I still have , offering good wishes and expressing the hope we might one day meet . |
| 9 | No one had the Art Room , the Science Lab , the Handwork Room , the Staff Common Room or the Headmaster 's Study , though there was a chance someone would one day . |
| 10 | But if by some extraordinary chance you should one day wander into a forest and catch a glimpse of a Minpin , then hold your breath and thank your lucky stars because up to now , so far as I know , no one excepting Little Billy has ever seen one . |
| 11 | And the happier you are , the higher the price you may one day have to pay . |
| 12 | I have heard that one day there will priestless parishes , and communion services conducted by special eucharistic ministers . |
| 13 | This shows a developing scale of value , not dissimilar to the adult 's hierarchy , although in the child 's case there will special reasons , fortified by fairy stories , for promoting animals . ) |
| 14 | She could not stand the thought of having a she-cat which would one day give birth to a large litter in her nice clean home and she did not wait to find out whether or not she-cats could be neutered . |
| 15 | ‘ When you 've lived as long as me , ’ said Lydia , speaking like the crone she would one day doubtless turn into , ‘ you 'll know just how stupid people can be . ’ |
| 16 | But then if you prefer it to writing they 'll postal strike you you know you hope . |
| 17 | Er , but I 've put down here that erm but possibly some retail outlets although the Saturday is the busiest day of their week they might important merchandise to arrive particularly at , you know , Jaeger shops , expensive shops where like the price of the item warrants paying a Saturday surcharge . |
| 18 | A report from the Lower Franconian town of Kitzingen in May 1943 , dealing particularly with opinion among academics , salespeople , and the bourgeoisie — groups which had earlier tended to be pro-Nazi in their sympathies — stated that ‘ a disgust about the Party was building up among the people , and a rage which would one day boil over ’ . |
| 19 | A comet which could one day wipe out life on earth has been captured on film … by a postman . |
| 20 | She had dreamed , as very young girls did , of a handsome knight who would one day arrive at her father 's castle , fall in love with her , win her heart by some brave deed , and carry her away across his saddle-bow . |
| 21 | The thought they would one day lose Lizzie never occurred . |
| 22 | If any party on the management committee does n't like the split it will five member it back through the whole structure to this county council and we shall have proceeded no further . |
| 23 | commissioned a new cereal plant and embarked on a capital project which will double output of breakfast cereals in France . |
| 24 | The argument is put forward that if a badger associates humans with food it may one day wander up to the wrong person , with fatal results . |
| 25 | But for our purposes we can say that corporatism involves cooperative arrangements between government and non-governmental groups or institutions under which the latter , either in return for some benefit or in order to avoid some disadvantage , agree to act in a way which will further government policy . |
| 26 | She said the only way you could another way you can cut your costs , he said , is , is that due to all these drivers he said , you 've got it you 've virtually got any driver on this car said just just have it you and yo , and your wife he said , and that 'll cut your costs down enormously . |
| 27 | Erm , what would not quite the right shape what would that graph be ? |
| 28 | Quite obviously , there is a good deal of , as yet , classified technology which might one day be available for all sorts of hazard mitigation purposes . |
| 29 | The Spidergobs had once caught a technerd to have fun with , a technerd who could savvy scumlingo , and who 'd screamed about how all his gang cousins had been taken into the Troopies up at some gateway fortress where the land-trains left , whatever those were . |
| 30 | At break time we would all troop down to the village shop for a bottle of Garden 's lemonade of a bag of what was all the rage in those days , potato crisps . |