Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This guarantees total inadequacy , but the pay-off is ( a ) the knowledge that nobody could cope with all fifteen , and that therefore the failure does not reflect badly on him personally , and ( b ) some self-righteousness at how hard he is trying to contribute , and resentment at those who are not ‘ pulling their weight . |
| 2 | Nobody could argue with that , nobody could question it , it was so . |
| 3 | Nothing could interfere with that happiness now . |
| 4 | He was also a minor landed gentleman , a circumstance which gave Burn not only an entry to society , but a profound understanding of his clients : as Donaldson recalled , ‘ no-one could tell with greater spirit many a good story about the auld Scots lairds and their vagaries . ’ |
| 5 | By the end of the war , despite tremendous efforts at expansion , the personnel of the French airforces totalled no more than 13,000 ( to get an idea of the aces ' prospects of survival , one may compare with this total the figures of 3,500 men killed in combat ; 2,000 killed on training alone ; and another 3,000 injured in flying accidents ) . |
| 6 | One may quibble with some of Jakobson 's distinctions and classifications , but it must be stressed that these are only a small selection of the multitude of relationships that he identifies in the space of this short poem . |
| 7 | His orcs use a kind of gunpowder at Helm 's Deep ( II , 142 ) ; thirty pages later the Ents meet at Isengard , or ‘ Irontown ’ , a kind of napalm — perhaps one should say with closer reference to Tolkien 's own experience , a Flammenwerfer . |
| 8 | To compete at top international level one must comply with certain basic concepts , such as training for four months before a test series . |
| 9 | What 's worse , although one might start with some hunches in a mammalian brain , the anatomy of the chick brain is very different from that of mammals , and even now not well mapped , so I could n't afford inspired guesses derived from mammalian expectations — chickens hardly have anything worth calling a hippocampus , for example . |
| 10 | In both studies the net disincentive effect was greater for higher-income groups , as one might expect with these paying higher marginal taxes ( stronger substitution effects ) . |
| 11 | One might say with little exaggeration that in this view the progress of science made philosophy redundant , except as a sort of intellectual laboratory assistant to the scientist . |
| 12 | One might quibble with these distinctions , but the proposal is simple : BSL is a language for conveying information and will be optimal where accurate and immediate knowledge is the goal ; methods imposed on this medium will be tailored to specific educational goals and these will be a function of the priorities of teachers , parents and society . |
| 13 | Bogue and Buffa ( 1986 , pp. 169–70 ) provide an indication of how one might proceed with such tests . |
| 14 | No one could cavil with that , either then , or in historical retrospect . |
| 15 | No one could listen with cold blood and sluggish pulses to the quickening crescendo of the roar preceding the final shout of ‘ Goal ! ’ |
| 16 | In the 1860s the first cables were laid across the oceans ; thanks to Wheatstone and William Thomson , one could communicate with absent friends whom one could no longer see . |
| 17 | She told reporters : ‘ He is an egomaniac — no one would quibble with that . |
| 18 | Distinct from the previously existing ‘ folk culture ’ , it is only in the late-nineteenth-century city that one can speak with any degree of certainty about the existence of a mass and popular culture . |
| 19 | While one can sympathise with those experienced types who would probably benefit more from putting their feet up on Wednesday night , one has to say it is n't every night you get the chance to pit your wits against the world champions . |
| 20 | Work is too important and too unsure to be obstructed by the uncertainties of not knowing what is expected and by whom , and by having to continually negotiate what one can do with individual power players . |
| 21 | But it does not follow that one can predict with complete accuracy the sentence that a judge will pass in a given case . |
| 22 | ‘ Serbian is the only language with which one can communicate with intelligent beings on other planets , ’ he assured parliament . |
| 23 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 24 | It is time to take account of that difference between perceiving from ‘ Now ’ and ‘ I ’ and imagining from other viewpoints which we have so far put aside as irrelevant.4 Although one can respond with some awareness to remote or hypothetical situations , and evaluate them sub specie aeternitatis , everyone 's actual choices of ends are of course confined to his own present and future and to his effective scope of action . |
| 25 | Although as a breed pension providers act very conservatively , and moreover , your money would be protected under the strict rules brought in by the Financial Services Act , no one can forecast with total confidence how well or otherwise any particular investment will do . |
| 26 | I do n't know whether anybody would disagree with that . |
| 27 | He does n't , I mean he 's a very nice chap , I think everyone would agree with that , erm but the question is |
| 28 | The word from Woburn House was that everybody should cooperate with all the enthusiasm they could muster . |
| 29 | I mean I think everybody would agree with that . |
| 30 | She found it hard to believe , in this day and age , that anyone would react with such loathing to a homosexual advance . |