Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [modal v] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of combining two energy sources for cooking may take a bit of rethinking on the cook 's part initially . |
| 2 | A few facts ( checkable for truth ) on cash from vehicles and cash for roads would inject a bit of realism into this issue . |
| 3 | The manager may be the only member of the team who is present in the office full time to fill these gaps and the responsibility of ensuring continuity for clients may make a manager reluctant to take on a large team of very part-time volunteers . |
| 4 | The Pakistani Prime Minister , Mohammad Khan Junejo , and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain agreed in April 1987 that a peace settlement for Afghanistan should include a commitment to establish ‘ a neutral non-aligned ’ regime in Kabul . |
| 5 | Crew arriving by air to join a yacht are not normally asked for an onward ticket : however , nationals who need visas for Spain should have a letter from the owner of the yacht stating that the crew is joining the yacht at Las Palmas . |
| 6 | As always , Ideal Constitutions for Ireland must wobble a bit when they come to Ulster . |
| 7 | As the Scottish islands await progress on the matter , can the Leader of the House tell us whether the Secretary of State for Scotland will make a statement early next week on ESAs for Scotland ? |
| 8 | ( The late-twentieth-century history of " Germany " shows that collective memories of unity can outlast a generation of partition . ) |
| 9 | The scale of values used to draw a graph is very important if you are to read it accurately , Look at the same advertising graphs again , this time both are drawn to the same scale . |
| 10 | Even though fewer than three thousand people are now engaged in whaling , directly and indirectly , their loss of support might trigger a loss of confidence among other rural people and jeopardise the LDP 's increasingly frail hold on government ; an office they have held for more than 25 years . |
| 11 | Exact patterns of change will remain a matter of controversy for historians , as they were for contemporaries , but what emerges from the inadequate farm records and welter of subjective comment by biased and often condescending outside observers is a marked contrast between the fortunes of a few well-organised and prosperous landowners and the general backwardness of their counterparts and tenants . |
| 12 | The Invitational Computer Conferences division of Dataquest will hold a series of exhibitions in Central and Eastern Europe this June . |
| 13 | Correspondingly , a tree or network of operations can define a pattern of decision-making . |
| 14 | Apart from finding globules of mercury in people 's shoes , a contemporary commentator , and opponent of this form of treatment , describes two men who used the same tavern regularly and both having supped from their little bottles of mercury would smoke a pipe and down some wine . |
| 15 | Two runners-up also receive prizes : a Gray-Nicolls 5-star bat goes to Paul Lancaster of Wigan , while Matt Dobson of Lincoln will receive a pair of ‘ Test Opener ’ batting gloves . |
| 16 | Probably Tolkien would have accepted the thesis ( not unfamiliar to medievalists ) that all great works of fiction should contain a kernel scene or a ‘ lyric core ’ : to use the terminology of Marie de France , whose ‘ Breton lays ’ Tolkien imitated in ‘ Aotrou and Itroun ’ , 1945 , every conte or story comes from a lai or song . |
| 17 | If there are no such circumstances , the notice of resignation must include a statement to that effect . |
| 18 | Most men with a modicum of experience can make a woman feel special , you know , ’ he murmured soothingly . |
| 19 | This sort of response can cause a lot of confusion for those around who perhaps do not share the same feeling . |
| 20 | Similarly , the buyer 's terms of purchase might contain a provision to deal with late delivery : ( a ) If the Seller fails to deliver the goods in accordance with the terms of this contract , the Buyer is entitled to terminate the contract with immediate effect . |
| 21 | Very often the period is much longer and securing the requisite number of ratifications may take a decade more , if , indeed , this is achieved at all . |
| 22 | More recently however , Abercrombie has suggested that the theory of ideology could fill a lack in the sociology of knowledge by linking ideology/knowledge with the social process rather than merely with classes or social groups : |
| 23 | Some of the Scotsmen talked of getting Ramsey as Bishop of Edinburgh but not enough of the Scotsmen wanted an Englishman and no doubt there were those who wondered whether this professor who lived among clouds of glory would make a bishop who perforce lived in a too real world . |
| 24 | The Keynesian view would emphasize that the original increase in the quantity of money will have a ripple effect spreading through the whole financial market until eventually even the less liquid financial assets such as equities are affected . |
| 25 | Even though this kind of action may cost a lot , I believe it to be money well and necessarily spent because the health of our economy and the health of our environment are totally dependent upon each other … . |
| 26 | But only the swiftest of action will save a woman who 's already lost her husband from losing her home as well . |
| 27 | Downstairs pipework The first piece of pipework will need a tee for the branch pipe to the kitchen tap which may itself need tees for pipes to a garden tap and washing machine . |
| 28 | A litter of lurchers will provide a cross-section of the species . |
| 29 | For example , the young reader needs to understand the idea of ‘ sequencing ’ — the idea that a series of pictures can tell a story , that Quentin Blake 's Mister Magnolia is not just many separate , entertaining pictures ( such as Dick Bruna 's b is for bear ) but that the pictures are telling a story . |
| 30 | Loss of momentum could mean a return to the stagnation which prevented the Community evolving in the 1970s . ’ |