Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rosette on a pelmet can add interest to tired curtains ; small rosettes and bows hide stubborn stains ; while pleated grosgrain ribbon can give plain calico and sheeting fabric a decorative edge . |
| 2 | Where spray bottles are more widely used and there is a risk of confusion colour coding is desirable and such a provision would take precedence over our control needs . |
| 3 | Buckets can hold ten records only , and any further records ‘ allocated ’ to a bucket will become part of a synonym chain . |
| 4 | Sometimes counsel for one of the parties in a case will make objection to a particular judge hearing the case . |
| 5 | Calls to pick a winner will boost aid for Mersey violence victims |
| 6 | Those on a budget will choose self catering or take-away some of the time , or when eating out will stick to more economic and filling pizza and pasta dishes , or the rosticceria selling tasty spit roast chickens . |
| 7 | It has also been held that a taxpayer would have standing to challenge the legality of an Order in Council authorizing the payment of public money to the European Community ; and that a television licence-holder has standing in respect of alleged breach by the IBA ( the predecessor of the Independent Television Commission ) of its responsibility to monitor programmes . |
| 8 | A course can increase confidence , career prospects or simply be enjoyable — all of which will never be regretted . |
| 9 | Such a toy should take precedence ( as an intruder ) over residents such as the Plec and the filters and will be attacked with great gusto . |
| 10 | Whatever his or her status , a Palestinian can claim compensation from the Israeli Special Committee for the Return of Absentee Property . |
| 11 | The College itself has warned the County Council that such a camp could undermine security because the I R A could use it as a cover while surveying the staff and premises . |
| 12 | Such a description might sound high-flown for a small , transitory occasion . |
| 13 | Survival time — Theoretically , a drug may increase cancer incidence either by causing new cancers or by accelerating the growth of existing cancers . |
| 14 | The relationship between serotonin and depression was first realised 25 years ago when reserpine , a drug used to treat hypertension , was observed to deplete the brain of serotonin and cause severe depression in a considerable number of patients . |
| 15 | There was one fascinating lecture on chirality and organic synthesis including the design of Salbutamol , a drug used to treat asthma . |
| 16 | v. Perry contains a clear ratio that , in the absence of proof of agency , a creditor can enforce security given by the wife of the debtor notwithstanding that the security has been procured by the undue influence of the debtor over the surety and whether or not the surety has a proper understanding of the transaction . |
| 17 | Use of a captive can produce cost savings and cash flow advantages for groups . |
| 18 | Just as a Christian might reject Buddhism without ever studying it or getting to understand the meaning behind the words . |
| 19 | Probably a majority would recommend treatment of the female sexual partner(s) with at least the first attack of NSU , but , as with gonorrhoea where up to one third of female gonorrhoea contacts can be shown not to have the disease , such a policy of treatment without diagnosis is bound to lead to a certain amount of overtreatment . |
| 20 | Music biz pals who would like to make a donation should send money to : AIDS Charity Body Positive , 51b Philbeach Gardens , London , SW5 . |
| 21 | A scientist may prefer frying bacon for paying customers . |
| 22 | Many people would say that even the possibility of a link would justify action , but the ITC already has detailed restrictions and before jerking one 's knee it 's necessary to know the nature of the material that may be subject to cuts . |
| 23 | The argument that a ban will drive ivory trading underground is plainly absurd , since up to 90 per cent of all ivory currently in trade has come from elephants illegally slaughtered by poachers . |
| 24 | But how does entropy help us to predict whether a change will take place or not ? |
| 25 | All unused terms must be included in the entry vocabulary of an index ; that is , they must be present as access points in some form if it is considered at all likely that a user might seek information under the unused term . |
| 26 | A user can perform Boolean operations to include or exclude clones which hybridise to particular probes or classes of probes . |
| 27 | The watershed mark is thought to be the point at which a user could get hold of such a board at a couple of hundred dollars or more less than the cost of buying a complete PC solution . |
| 28 | Sometimes a wave can express gratitude as successfully as saying ‘ Thanks ’ . |
| 29 | As a senior Home Office official put it to an RCM conference in October 1942 : ‘ A refugee should have treatment comparable to that of an average English child in receipt of free education ’ , adding , ‘ It is not possible to provide continued education except in highly exceptional cases of brilliancy . ’ |
| 30 | However , a scorpion can detect air moving at 0.072 kilometres per hour — 100 times slower than a light breeze on the Beaufort scale . |