Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is full of ideas to try out and everyone should do just as it recommends . |
| 2 | Dana thought everyone should do just as she wanted , and why not ? |
| 3 | It was the same at the funeral , they were all so quiet , the four men who brought in the coffin wore thick soft-soled shoes so as not to make a noise , nothing must interrupt so that it seemed like a silent film unreeling to the sound of psalms . |
| 4 | The idea of ‘ subjective meaning ’ is a loose one , covering all ways in which someone may act deliberately or expressively and excluding only reflex actions . |
| 5 | Someone would come home and wonder what she was doing . |
| 6 | It will seek to ensure that all priority patients are treated within three months and that nobody should wait more than twelve months for treatment . |
| 7 | Nobody can function effectively when attempting to move simultaneously in opposite directions . |
| 8 | I read once that nobody can stand more than ten years in prison , or more than one year of solitary confinement . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , their trade barriers are such that nobody can get inside and buy anything . |
| 10 | ‘ None can know better than your lordship the importance of Berwick Castle , ’ Ramsay went on . |
| 11 | There are difficult conditions in which it is possible to race honourably ; there are absurd conditions in which one may race honourably if slowly ; and there are conditions in which it is impossible to race . |
| 12 | Oyston is also chairman and owner of Blackpool Football Club , and is seeking the permission of the League to waive their rule that no one may hold more than 10 per cent of a club if he has a financial interest in another . |
| 13 | A large mint such as operated under the Roman empire might well use more than one engraver , and consequently one may find more than one style of work in use contemporaneously and at the same place . |
| 14 | Mr Ryan said it was hoped to target 12 to 24 month waiting lists and eventually no one should wait longer than a year for treatment . |
| 15 | One should note however that Cauchy did not use the word group but talked rather of " a system of conjugate substitutions " . |
| 16 | It seems to follow that if one wishes to change corporate goals one must look further than the modification of directors ' duties . |
| 17 | One example might be the political decision taken in January 1991 that no one must wait longer than two years for an operation by April 1992 , irrespective of clinical need . |
| 18 | One must remember too that the authors of many of the changes we now see have been Conservative Secretaries of State . |
| 19 | Now you 're alright , that 's everything should happen there but it is not physically impossible but it 's gon na put staff under a lot of stress and we 're gon na have to play the game of making it workable . |
| 20 | One might suggest then that the ‘ major project ’ Holdaway recognized was missing from the college inventory is still to come ! |
| 21 | One might suspect then that it originated as a boundary — a green mere between two ancient estates — but there is no sign of a boundary along it today . |
| 22 | One might argue then that the effectiveness of language teaching will depend on what is being taught , other than the language , that will be recognized by the learners as a purposeful and relevant extension of their schematic horizons . |
| 23 | One could sit here and admire the view , she thought ; or lie almost hidden by the tall golden grasses which , perhaps because the place was not easy of access , had been left to grow to their full height and now filled the air with their mingled scents . |
| 24 | For a gentle corrective one could do worse than go back to H.L. Mencken who opined that Alexander Graham Bell — the progenitor of the institution in which Penzias holds sway — and Thomas Alva Edison had done more than any of their contemporaries to add to the sum of life 's damned nuisances . |
| 25 | If one wants to look for the origins of conflict in modern America , one could do worse than line up the eighteenth-century Puritans against the Enlightenment men : say , Jonathan Edwards ( 1703–1758 ) , Samuel Davies ( 1723–1761 ) and Timothy Dwight ( 1752–1817 ) versus Benjamin Franklin ( 1706–1790 ) , Thomas Jefferson ( 1743–1826 ) , Thomas Paine ( 1737–1809 ) and James Madison ( 1751–1836 ) . |
| 26 | In fact , one could go further and claim that the negative image of the Jew provided a common denominator which was able to combine and provide justification for all these ideological themes . |
| 27 | One could go further and give more weight to differences with lower sampling variability , but that takes us into confirmatory statistics and beyond the scope of this book . |
| 28 | Whether one could go further and show that any particular process was specific to a particular memory , in that it represented it and only it within the brain , remained to be seen . |
| 29 | One could go further and try to rank order properties , such as " power " and " status " , which would give a yet higher level of measurement . |
| 30 | He ensured that no one could talk confidentially and if he heard something he did n't like , he would loudly announce over the intercom , ‘ I heard that ! ’ |