Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet everyone may come into contact with the mentally handicapped at some stage in their lives ; indeed any one of us may be accidentally brain damaged . |
| 2 | She was awakened in the mornings by cocks crowing , and it was so quiet in the evenings it seemed everyone must go to bed before dark . |
| 3 | All political parties are agreed that everyone should pay towards council services if they can afford it . |
| 4 | It appears contradictory that someone should ask for advice and then reject it . |
| 5 | There 's a good chance that someone could go into prison in similar circumstances and the same things would happen again . |
| 6 | ‘ The path between the car park and the sports centre is quite dark and I imagine it 's the sort of place someone could lie in wait . ’ |
| 7 | Spokesman Colin Tweedie said : ‘ It 's not as if when Ophelia drowns someone will jump on stage brandishing a packet of Comfort . |
| 8 | At least when you learn a new language someone can explain in English what words mean and how grammar works . |
| 9 | ‘ If someone can go on board an aircraft like this there must be something wrong . |
| 10 | Nobody could sleep at night . |
| 11 | From time to time somebody would burst into song or laughter , and some people continued to whisper on and off all through the night . |
| 12 | Your question is really a question regarding the duration of the present recession which with the exception of our economic astrologers nobody can answer at present . |
| 13 | The only thing they wanted to hear was that the prophet had said that everyone could go to Zap Zone and stay there for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 14 | The Queen had convenanted not to give licence to any others to search or dig etc. in the eight counties reserved , or in Wales , and that none would search without consent of the patentees , and that she would " deface and distroy all tools , instruments &c. save only of the Patentees . " |
| 15 | On the general point of differentiating criteria between strategic and local , I think that one ought to bear in mind that some have importance in both connections and particularly I would draw attention to the perhaps overriding points made in paragraph thirty three of P P G three , regarding the avoidance of unacceptable coalescence and positive environmental improvements . |
| 16 | This definition was used by Cohen to explain the response to youth in the 1950s and 1960s but it can be similarly applied to moral crises in the more distant past — one may refer by way of example , to the nexus of fears generated by the French Revolution , which significantly shaped the contours of ‘ Victorian ’ sexuality , or the anxieties which produced the legislative restructuring of the 1880s and 1900s , or the fears generated by the cold war in the 1950s . |
| 17 | While the one may hint at sensuality , the other is conventionally chaste . |
| 18 | In conclusion , when considering the inclusion of any teaching resource in one 's teaching programme , one should bear in mind that : |
| 19 | Not much , but one should bear in mind the experience of the early 1980s : in the first 12 months of that recovery , the initial statistics showed that GDP had risen by only 0.6% ; the number-crunchers later revised that rise to 1.8% . |
| 20 | This is a worthwhile approach , though one should bear in mind that different mutagens give qualitatively different kinds of mutation . |
| 21 | There are many aids to beauty available and no lack of advice on the correct use of make-up , but one should bear in mind that use of it should be discreet and not overdone . |
| 22 | We close with a cautionary note : one should bear in mind that a source of potential confusion always present is the fact that certain verbs lend themselves to occurrence with more than one type of adjectival construction , and to illustrate let us observe that any of the following , with their different modes of interpretation , are fully acceptable sentences of English : ( 72 ) Mackay preferred the picture stolen ( postnominal attributive ) ( 73 ) Shelagh prefers her holidays adventurous ( predicate qualifier ) ( 74 ) we prefer the king ( to be ) beheaded ( clausal ) |
| 23 | 1.16 Finally on pre-litigation investigation , one should bear in mind the need for experts in cases involving latent defects and inexplicable accidents . |
| 24 | Now , another thing that erm one should bear in mind I suppose in talking about child sex abuse , is the way a great many of terms are contentious . |
| 25 | Austen 's portrait of her characters reinforces her argument about how one should behave in society to achieve one 's own happiness . |
| 26 | A Palace spokesman said : ‘ In times of recession one should look at cost-cutting and the princess has done just this . |
| 27 | It is principally in the genealogy of their ideas that one should look for evidence of their kinship . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know why one should know about jade , ’ said Ivy . |
| 29 | When comparing terrace patterns from one area to another one should take into account , not only the height , but also the degree of development and the degree of complexity of the various members of terrace sequences , i.e. whether certain terraces seem compounded of several minor elements . |
| 30 | In assessing the impact of stories of premature interment , one must bear in mind that for most of the nineteenth century , medical science , such as it was , was helpless in the face of coma and cardiac arrest ; if the patient had apparently ceased breathing and had no discernable heartbeat , it was assumed that death had come . |