Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , everyone may have the same wage rate , w , per hour and the same unearned income , M , but there may be differences in the tastes for leisure leading to differences in hours worked , L. As a result , measured income may vary — even though all individuals have the same endowments and market opportunities . |
| 2 | Again such taxes discriminate against the poor because everyone must pay the same regardless of their actual wealth . |
| 3 | Thus it seems that the only understanding that the persons in the original position can reach is that everyone should have the greatest equal liberty consistent with a similar liberty for others . |
| 4 | that he thinks that erm of all of these forced motivations class interest is the most damaging and he argues there 's a remedy for this , we 'll see why it 's a remedy in a minute , that certain people ought to be given more than one vote so that although everyone should have some votes , not everyone should have the same number of votes . |
| 5 | It is right and proper that everyone should have the same opportunity , but this can be controlled by one officer in my belief . |
| 6 | No-one should forget the disastrous collapse of Greece 's infrastructure during World War Two and the bitter Civil War that followed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 I were the patient I would hope someone would have the common sense not to operate on me . |
| 12 | But one day someone will invent the perfect rectifier , and then . |
| 13 | I felt that somebody should give the other side … how such a tragedy brings all kinds of penalties in its wake . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That reminds me that it was Margaret Thatcher who said , Nobody would remember the Good Samaritan , if all he had was good intentions . |
| 17 | Nobody would get the better of him . |
| 18 | Nobody can dodge the monetary reform . |
| 19 | Three grand goes a fair way among the widows and apprentices , particularly as nobody can remember the last time there was an apprentice in the village . |
| 20 | Everyone could feel the abnormal strains that were now racking the monied world . |
| 21 | The therapist and the group jointly answered those irrational statements , and everyone could see the funny side of the bizarre nature of her final image . |
| 22 | Raoul dabbed at his nose with the back of his hand , and everyone could see the resulting scarlet streak . |
| 23 | The coffee thermos and cups were fetched , the incense came again but this time it was passed more slowly , so that everyone could enjoy the sweet-smelling smoke to a greater extent . |
| 24 | Yet nothing could alter the double personal difficulty — a difference of principles between a low churchman and a high churchman , and an indefinable difference of temperament . |
| 25 | … nothing could equal the artistic splendour of its architecture and the beauty of its interiors … |
| 26 | Nothing could surpass the exquisite beauty of the countryside of Tuscany . |
| 27 | French Renaissance and Italian Renaissance styles were taken up by other railway architects — notably at the Michigan , Southern , and Rock Island station at Chicago ( 1871 , and reconstructed after the Great Fire of Chicago in 1872 ) , New Haven ( 1870s ) , Chicago Union ( 1881 ) , and later at Salt Lake City , Utah ( 1909 ) — but nothing could halt the headlong growth of the complications of the picturesque . |
| 28 | Nothing could withstand the terrible forces unleashed . |
| 29 | But none could match the sharp shooting of former caddie Berendt and the long-hitting Parnevik . |
| 30 | If one ought to act because of an authoritative directive one 's reasons are different than if one ought to perform the same act for other reasons . |