Example sentences of "a [noun] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By such a route they might escape from the niches of their birth , and gain access to something better — to better weapons , possibly to some real food different from synthcake and synthgruel . |
| 2 | I could n't tell her mine was n't a route she 'd stand much chance of following . |
| 3 | like a G they will join up in exactly the same way next time he does it , even to the same letter |
| 4 | And I will be bold to say I am honest , though poor , and if you was a prince it would not be otherwise . |
| 5 | They were without hot water and numerous other comforts but they had a base they could call their own . |
| 6 | What physical relationship he had with her two brothers and a sister she could n't be sure , but for her , the sexual abuse started at seven . |
| 7 | As a hunter he will die in the forest to become a warrior ; as a warrior he will die in battle , and be resurrected to become a sage . |
| 8 | Cheap repairing a fuse they should be about right should n't it ? |
| 9 | He did n't say anything about ( well-documented ) insults Yeugh directed at the distinguished internationals for no apparent reason — like telling Eddie Gray ‘ if you were a racehorse you 'd have been shot years ago ’ in front of the team — or indeed any of the other eccentric behaviour of the man that got him fired . |
| 10 | Running an airline is an expensive business at the best of times , during a recession it can be a way of using up money really quite quickly , now Virgin 's particular problem was that they began this recession with relatively little in the way of capital and reserves , only about thirty six million in nineteen ninety one . |
| 11 | But she really must send Charlie her new address and tell him how peculiar it all was ; about the strange customs , still revered because Nelson had established them ; about rooms which were now cabins , walls which had become bulkheads and a kitchen she must now call a galley . |
| 12 | But you still have to decide whether you want to make a kitchen you can eat in , or an eating place which is also the kitchen . |
| 13 | In parallel with the scalar series , exp ( - A ) is the reciprocal of exp A. If , as in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , we have a polynomial or series in a scalar quantity{ gl } and the corresponding function in the square matrix A , we may multiply the scalar function by I to obtain the two matrix functions unc Subtraction term by term then gives unc where Q is a function we need not evaluate here . |
| 14 | If one of his deans or canons had written it in a Meditation he would have read it out to Bob in a mock-clerical voice , and deleted it , snarling . |
| 15 | I can see that in such a case they might make a gift of paintings or other works of art for tax reasons , for example , and would n't care if they were sold or not . |
| 16 | In such a case he would be bound to take the woman as he found her , if sued by her , and her pregnancy would be just as much a a physical condition in his victim as would be the case of a person having an eggshell skull . |
| 17 | In such a case you 'll commonly dispense with making a copy for your file . |
| 18 | In the event of death occurring in such a case I would accept that it could be an unnatural death . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ The first time I heard of a case I could not believe it . |
| 20 | ‘ In such a case I must be satisfied , ’ he said blandly . |
| 21 | If appearing on behalf of a respondent in such a case it would be essential to argue the alternative reasons when showing what was the reason for dismissal . |
| 22 | The court discussed the example of a solicitor 's clerk and said that in such a case it would be improper for him to work for another solicitor in his spare time . |
| 23 | In such a case it may well be advisable to draw up the contract to cover stages that can be defined in this way and make contracts for succeeding stages conditional upon achieving agreed criteria of success for prior stages . |
| 24 | The method is of special advantage in cases when a seller delivers an epitome of title accompanied by photographic copies of the title documents , some perhaps complicated and lengthy ; in such a case it may be expedient to make your own " notes on title " on the epitome itself to save duplication of documents . |
| 25 | In such a case it can pay to set up an ancillary file when the file is loaded . |
| 26 | In such a case it will very frequently involve a lesser or lesser-known crime . |
| 27 | In such a case it will be difficult to persuade a court to imply any further obligation : see the judgment of Lord Denning in Potters Ballottini Ltd v Weston-Baker [ 1977 ] RPC 202 . |
| 28 | In such a case it will invite discount houses and clearing banks to bid for Treasury bills of one or more specified maturities . |
| 29 | And er I thought it was , what a money it must have cost to put that one commercial firm doing that . |
| 30 | If we follow this top road along a bit we 'll see the toll-booth for the suspension bridge and … |