Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jeeves is played out , someone should really have a look at the Mr Mulliner Hollywood satires . |
| 2 | Someone could easily make a fire in there . |
| 3 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |
| 4 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |
| 5 | Nobody could possibly offer a definite answer to this and say how long it may take to fully overcome anxiety and stress problems . |
| 6 | No-one could ever write a book about that , he thought . |
| 7 | There is a chain of contracts and a breach of one may well cause a chain reaction , i.e. a breach of each of the others see paragraph 9–05 above . |
| 8 | One may also surmise a sociological influence . |
| 9 | But here one may also expect a degree of individual variation . |
| 10 | One may even detect a waning of attention to Roman peculiarities . |
| 11 | However applicable the distinction — and Walsh 's characterization of the " provincial " muftis — may be in the period after the end of the sixteenth century , the position regarding the muftis in the earlier period is rather more complex , for here one must distinguish three classes : first , the Mufti ; second , muftis of a number of cities and large towns , who certainly were of the ulema class ; and third , though evidence regarding them is hard to come by , one may perhaps hypothesize a class of small-town , even village muftis , who may have been , but very possibly were not , of the ulema class . |
| 12 | But then no one should ever expect a criminal organization to be trustworthy . |
| 13 | Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ? |
| 14 | To arrive at the average length of an English sentence , one should ideally amass a complete corpus of the language at a given period . |
| 15 | Early in my journalistic career I learned that one should never use a preposition to end a sentence with — remembering it because it committed the error it condemned ; whatever the consequence , I was now fully convinced that Moose Jaw was not a bad place to be from . |
| 16 | In kung fu one should never allow a technique to extend so far as to be impracticable . |
| 17 | The Aten itself was amoral ; but in life one should always forgive a man who had sinned . |
| 18 | One should always risk a finite certainty for an infinite uncertainty . |
| 19 | If one takes a broader view of economies of scale along these lines then one must also take a more differentiated view of the large-scale enterprise . |
| 20 | To this list of common origins and influences , of shared ambitions and institutions , one must also add a common interest in research , a keen theoretical ambition — on some occasions at least — and a fascination with speech and what it may reveal . |
| 21 | To represent a happening as unforeseeable , however — and herein lies the explanation for the use of the infinitive with to — one must necessarily evoke a position before its occurrence : the stretch of time leading up to it must be evoked as containing no prior indication that it was going to occur . |
| 22 | For that purpose one must sometimes accept a composition of a team or delegation that in abstract terms is different from that which one would wish . |
| 23 | Figure 1 follows through only one function in each column , but one might easily imagine a similar division and re-division of any of the other six macro-functions , or of any of the resulting sub-categories . |
| 24 | In addition to the examples mentioned above , one might also encounter a topless bar , I hear Torquay has gone topless . |
| 25 | And he only exemplifies a much stronger theme in the work as a whole : the failure of the good , one might even say a sense of ‘ defeatism ’ . |
| 26 | In a declining market one might well expect a business that had earlier established a dominant share position to be able to trade on this position in the short run and increase prices and profits , because rivals are unlikely to come into the market or compete strongly for market share . |
| 27 | for each unoccupied row , r , say nr is the number of positions in this row where one might still put a piece . |
| 28 | In the new year he sent Sixsmith a series — one might almost say a sequence — of screenplays on group-jeopardy themes . |
| 29 | Mr Grey 's enthusiasm and energy for the entrepreneurial challenge was contagious , but one could nevertheless feel a good few heels digging in among the bookselling purists at the idea of running a hairdresser . |
| 30 | So to say yes to higher taxes when one could instead choose a second car or private hospital is to assert the value of decency . |