Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody can ever detail all the trickery , kidnapping and war that took place to obtain those captives . |
| 2 | One may also have several equations to solve rather than just one . |
| 3 | Perhaps , one may even get some answers ! |
| 4 | One may perhaps contrast this with the other common mental illness of old age , depression , in which loss , in many forms , from bereavement to loss of role and status , may reasonably be thought to play a part . |
| 5 | One should also remember that for a period of about three or four months in the summer the terraces are closed completely . |
| 6 | More 's eloquence has set the tone for much historical writing on the subject , but while one should not deny that enclosures created a good deal of suffering , one should also remember that More was exaggerating his points for the sake of effect . |
| 7 | What you 're not likely to see is the peculiarities of , of the person erm showing themselves and if they do show too much , the likelihood is that the rest of the group will start to erm freeze out that individual , regardless because they 're no longer corresponding to the to the ideals of the group and er so consequently , erm I personally have no time for group psychoanalysis and I would never recommend it to anybody , although of course , for non-analytic things like losing weight or in stopping smoking or drinking , there 's a lot to be said for it , but one should n't confuse that kind of group reinforcement with erm analysis , cos analysis as we 've seen is quite different . |
| 8 | This result spills over onto the optimal output decision : since one can expect better sales prices with a higher σ or a lower k , one should accordingly produce more output with a higher σ or lower k . |
| 9 | Such mistakes are easily made ; the point is that one should not treat any historical document as gospel . |
| 10 | But one should not expect such economic movements to determine the details of changing musical practice in any mechanical way . |
| 11 | I believe that the publication of these results will cause people to focus on the reasons for the low standards in some places , except for hon. Members representing Bradford and Newham — the two lowest scoring local authorities — whose reaction is that one should not have such testing and that it is merely a problem forced on the local authority . |
| 12 | However , as the very existence of the catholic — nationalist alliance impedes progress towards such a solution , one should perhaps view such a possibility as unreal . |
| 13 | By pre-adjunct he means adjectives in prenominal attributive position ; by characterisation he means something like inherent or permanent ( to which one should perhaps add some cautious and flexible condition such as " in the circumstances " ) . |
| 14 | One must simply accept these performances at face value and forget about problems of piano versus harpsichord versus clavichord . |
| 15 | One must not forget that . |
| 16 | One must not forget that EP has generated its own industry as well . |
| 17 | One must not exaggerate such things and fall into excesses , but nature has fixed laws which it is fatal to struggle against . ’ |
| 18 | On the other hand one must also accept that fishing has a harmful environmental effect : the contamination of our inland waters with discarded line and fishing hooks . |
| 19 | In such a case ? one must still examine all the circumstances of the case in order to discern what was the parties ' intention as to the passing of property . |
| 20 | One must never forget this long , almost glorious , background to the discontents , ‘ conservative ’ and ‘ progressive ’ , of the post-Vatican II years . |
| 21 | Indeed one might well say that , through this augmentation of what is to be considered male , the male now absorbs all in himself . |
| 22 | Another implication of ( 16 ) , or ( 15 ) , is that , apart from questioning the adjective , the language would also provide a means to question the noun phrase alone while " leaving behind " the predicate qualifier ( even though one might not expect such questions to be particularly common in practice ) , and in fact such questions are perfectly grammatical : ( 21 ) who(m) did he paint seated ? what did he send registered ? |
| 23 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 24 | There is one poem in which the I dominates to a remarkable extent and which , since it has been read literally , might seem an exception to my argument , namely 62 : If one reads only as far as this point , or reads the rest of the poem inattentively , one might indeed take this as an attack by the poet on his own narcissism . |
| 25 | but I think one one might still see this in terms of , of Mao 's ideas on excesses that , that clearly the situation was not right in the first half of , of nineteen forty seven . |
| 26 | The scene was sufficiently oriental that one could easily imagine some Hokusai image of a dragon rising into the skies above the Drachenfels . |
| 27 | Again , the easiest route is to take opposing views , though I am aware that one could probably detect many shades of opinion amongst teachers of English in universities . |
| 28 | Clearly not all determinations of the artificer could reasonably be regarded as doorways and even more clearly should he step outside the ‘ frame ’ and install a window no one could reasonably regard that as a determination of the architect 's concept . |
| 29 | When examining the structure of local government and establishing the local government commission , one could not make any better start than the appointment of Sir John Banham as the chairman of the commission if one wants common sense , quality decision making and a tough-minded approach . |
| 30 | One could not have more standards , but there is no argument on that . |