Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone must carry an internal passport , and we were always conscious of security everywhere . |
| 2 | Everyone must feel a genuine sense of being included . |
| 3 | No-one should forget the disastrous collapse of Greece 's infrastructure during World War Two and the bitter Civil War that followed . |
| 4 | No-one should underestimate the enormous gain in freedom for millions who had been trapped in the oppression of communist dictatorships , but the speed with which the liberation of eastern Europe occurred was so stunning that it raised what we can now see to have been unrealistic expectations of the transition to peace , democracy , and prosperity . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not saying best practice is wrong , ’ he said , ‘ but someone must change the operational guidelines because you ca n't have one set of guidelines issued by the Institute and another being operated by the JMU . ’ |
| 6 | Rose had begun to sob gently , not at all like her usual wild self , and someone must tell the poor mother downstairs that she had a grandson , but not a daughter . |
| 7 | As someone might discard an empty mixifoam container . |
| 8 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 9 | ‘ If someone could find a round the world trip lasting six months , I would happily go , ’ commented one accountant . |
| 10 | Every so often , as the young man led them across the room , a telephone would ring , but quietly , its bell having been adjusted to suit the tone of the office , and someone would answer the muted telephone in a lowered voice . |
| 11 | If only someone would invent a lubricating oil for bird watchers … |
| 12 | If I were the patient I would hope someone would have the common sense not to operate on me . |
| 13 | Someone would get a new car , or a new cat : a tree would be lopped : the milkman 's horse bolt . |
| 14 | But one day someone will invent the perfect rectifier , and then . |
| 15 | For example , someone can have a specific doubt about God which is caused by an unnecessary lack of understanding . |
| 16 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 17 | I felt that somebody should give the other side … how such a tragedy brings all kinds of penalties in its wake . ’ |
| 18 | Nobody should want an Iraqi bomb , but Israel can not hope to keep a nuclear monopoly for ever . |
| 19 | He might add that the reforms that are bringing that about are in danger under the plans proposed by the Labour party and that nobody could guarantee the increasing support and assistance from the NHS if those reforms were turned back . |
| 20 | And plus the fact that with the control room had been taken out nobody could sound the general evacuation alarms either , there was no alarms or anything or any warning for anybody on the platform either . |
| 21 | Newcastle still enjoyed the King 's approval and still had a majority in the Commons , but he resigned because he realized that nobody could provide an adequate answer to Pitt 's attacks . |
| 22 | ( Nobody could find a good word to say for the secondary moderns , and that silence was eloquent and effective . ) |
| 23 | Erm , if somebody could spend a little bit of time with Ilias because we 've got this language problem and I know that he 's found this a little bit difficult , I think he would appreciate it tonight , when you get together please . |
| 24 | That reminds me that it was Margaret Thatcher who said , Nobody would remember the Good Samaritan , if all he had was good intentions . |
| 25 | I just do n't think the two things match , but over and above that it 's totally unnecessary and nobody would put a gipsy site on one of the nicest avenues leading into a town . |
| 26 | Regulations about auditing pension funds hinder profitability , but without them nobody would get a fair pension . |
| 27 | Reform of the National Health Service and the education system should become much easier , now that nobody can entertain a realistic prospect of its reversal . |
| 28 | Nobody can dodge the monetary reform . |
| 29 | Then in the 1970s ( nobody can put an exact date to it ) the foliage began to change , becoming sickly yellow or brown instead of shining grey and green . |
| 30 | However , on a bad day chaos reigns , and nobody can predict a likely departure time . |