Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I suppose , if somebody 's going around with an opinion pole , and they ask you about a certain , what you think about a certain thing , that , that , presume what their asking about , may affect everybody in different way |
| 2 | A person may buy something in good faith , but may find out afterwards that the seller had no title to it , perhaps because the seller or somebody else stole it . |
| 3 | At present hospitals and community services often use the translation services of a relative who is bilingual , or of a kitchen porter or nurse who may know nothing of mental health problems , or of anyone in the vicinity who happens to speak the language . |
| 4 | Those journalists may know something about environmental issues , but if they understand transport issues , they were jolly well doing their best to conceal the fact . |
| 5 | JAMES EDE , chief display assistant , East Filton : ‘ We should make something of all the hype around the release of the Jurassic Park film and have dinosaur shaped foods . ’ |
| 6 | I think you must prefer everything in that room . |
| 7 | I should think something like that really . |
| 8 | If that is so , they must explain something about that uncertainty to the child , and include the fact that others have a positive belief in life after death . |
| 9 | Mr Edwards , who examined Mrs Bates during her early pregnancy but was not on duty when she was admitted , said some deceleration in foetal heartbeat was not unusual , but it should alert one to possible dangers . |
| 10 | Somehow or other that piece of parchment and the seed cake lie at the very heart of the murder and they must know something about both . |
| 11 | ‘ Edwin must know nothing of this . |
| 12 | Perhaps you should include one for each section every issue , so you can focus on what 's wrong with it . |
| 13 | Ruskin ( who will be discussed in a later chapter ) also wrote his autobiography in old age , and without our knowledge of his life from other sources we should have a distorted picture of his childhood , and should know nothing at all about his marriage . |
| 14 | ‘ We must do something about those birds , ’ said Paul . |
| 15 | ‘ We must do something about this exhibition , ’ Jay said , with the very English concentration of one commenting on the vagaries of the weather . |
| 16 | There is no reason why having some coincidental sperm-and-egg relationship with a child should entitle someone for that reason to be seen as a ‘ natural expert ’ , as distinct from a very clever , highly qualified one . |
| 17 | regardless of what they want to do , the rest of the organization , I think that we as an organization should do something like that . |
| 18 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 19 | Indeed , Fleury felt quite like a sculptor as he worked away and he thought that it must feel something like this to carve an object of beauty out of the primeval rock . |
| 20 | Yes , anything — you must report anything at all out of the ordinary at once . |
| 21 | Now by law they must provide something like this booklet . |
| 22 | but he did I a favour at by bringing out er a law that said that they must provide something like this . |
| 23 | She said , ‘ I think you 're trying to tell me that I should remember something of this . ’ |
| 24 | It should work something like this : the sales clerk will be visible in a small window on the screen . |
| 25 | It 's easy to forget them , to assume that the apocryphal bibliography must contain nothing but bad ideas , justly abandoned projects , embarrassing first thoughts . |
| 26 | It does n't have to be from the same range , but the pieces should have something in common — such as being in the same or similar wood or style , having the same upholstery fabric or the same colour . |
| 27 | Any garden or florist 's should have plenty of different green leaves to choose from . |
| 28 | A business course should , naturally , have a string of business situations and a science course should have plenty of scientific vocabulary . |
| 29 | Come next spring , you should have lots of new young plants — and all for free ! |
| 30 | She must have plenty of other scrapes and bruises . |