Example sentences of "a [noun] [modal v] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A kitchen must have both : |
| 2 | Most cases take between a year and 18 months to process , but if the victim disputes the award a case can take another year for a full hearing . |
| 3 | Most people when they 've experienced a burglary will spend some time , perhaps minutes , perhaps hours , trying to absorb what has happened to them . |
| 4 | It does not provide that a board may refuse such applications . |
| 5 | A board will ruin any bed and cause discomfort at pressure points . |
| 6 | Only a whore could love this Turkish bellyache . |
| 7 | The king 's own influence in the north rested primarily on the support of local men , and the appointment of a lieutenant could do little more than seek to transfer that support , something which had already been largely achieved through recognition of Gloucester 's role as his brother 's agent in the north . |
| 8 | The king 's own influence in the north rested primarily on the support of local men , and the appointment of a lieutenant could do little more than seek to transfer that support , something which had already been largely achieved through recognition of Gloucester 's role as his brother 's agent in the north . |
| 9 | A writer can choose any time and place to operate in , but The Innocent does not broadcast the colder , universal truths of the abstract . |
| 10 | A blind man with his head tied in a sack could see this one coming , could n't he ? |
| 11 | First and most basically we can look at the physical nature of the coins of any given period , as the study of the amount of silver or gold bullion in a coin may reveal some historical information . |
| 12 | In any single game , a computer will make enough mistakes to illustrate a whole textbook of what not to do . |
| 13 | Any change to a field will have some knock-on effect on other areas in that it will modify the overall pattern of student choice . |
| 14 | Thus a field can influence another field and nothing is transferred into or out through the cell membrane . |
| 15 | I did not know whether having a contract would make much difference to the service delivered or to relationships between social workers and general practitioners . |
| 16 | A Christian may relate this concept to that of the Word in the prologue to St John 's Gospel , or to the idea of Wisdom in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha with its quasi-personal cause . |
| 17 | I believe if you took a referendum today a majority would agree that television should be stopped forthwith . |
| 18 | Now equations ( 9.92 ) and ( 9.93 ) show that an open or short-circuited line of length less than half a wavelength can provide any desired reactance or susceptance . |
| 19 | He argued that reference to a male should precede any reference to a woman , again reflecting the order of nature . |
| 20 | A female that pairs monogamously with a male will get some help from him with rearing the chicks . |
| 21 | In The Godfather , Don Corleone says : ‘ A lawyer with a briefcase can rob more money in a week than a man with a gun can take in a year . ’ |
| 22 | At a number of North-Eastern stations a porter would spend half an hour every Saturday or Sunday releasing pigeons from individual baskets , according to the instructions on the label . |
| 23 | Only a Russian would find all that surprising , or fail to understand that freedom which is not misused is not freedom at all . |
| 24 | Automatic top-up with a ballcock will allow all water in a new pool to pass first through the Eradicator . |
| 25 | It does seem that the only way a housewife can get any recognition of the value of her work is to refuse or fail to do it . |
| 26 | During the replay of a trail , a user can enter any of the following : |
| 27 | Such a formulation would require those asking the questions to confront the real problems : the need to understand that the aspiration to the exercise of democratic right and the discharge of democratic responsibility must arise from those who would exercise the right and discharge the responsibility and is not to be thrust upon those who do not want it or induced in those who are indifferent to it ; the need for a form of organisation such that the interests of ownership and labour would be congruent ; and the need to recognise that since accountability , above all , is the test of authentic democracy , then by that same test there will be some circumstances in which the general case for industrial democracy is over-ridden . |
| 28 | In experimental line-out changes that will be reviewed after a year , a jumper must use both hands or his inside arm to catch the ball , and the 50 centimetre space between the lines will be doubled . |
| 29 | There are still many people who think ( perhaps a better word is ‘ hope ’ ! ) that a gyro can do all the work of controlling the tail and thus leave the pilot free to concentrate on other things . |
| 30 | There is very little idiom through which a Piaroa can demarcate another Piaroa as ‘ other ’ than self , and therefore as ‘ outsider ’ . |