Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others , such as a chemical explosion involving the release of a toxic gas , may persist for a week or more , have delayed consequences , may affect a future generation if the toxic chemical is mutagenic and may have a significant impact on plant and animal populations . |
| 2 | A solicitor employed by a non-lawyer may not carry out professional work for any person other than his employer ( ie working directly with the employer 's clients is not permitted ) but may act for a company or other organisation controlled by the employer or over which the employer has substantial control or for a company in the same group as the employer or which controls the employer . |
| 3 | After an evening of work here , she felt she must look like a cod or haddock herself with dull eyes and open mouth . |
| 4 | Detectives warned women to be careful while the attacker was on the loose and said people going for a walk — especially women — should go with a friend or a neighbour , not alone . |
| 5 | Your ‘ interviewer ’ should sit behind a desk or table so that you can get the feel of approaching someone in a ‘ dominant ’ situation . |
| 6 | This may succeed for a week or two but in the end is bound to be as banal as the preacher 's brain , returning with monotony to well worn paths and well worked passages . |
| 7 | These vowel changes are brought about by rules — not the sort of rules that one might teach to language learners , but more like the instructions that one might build into a machine or write into a computer program . |
| 8 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll wait for a month or so : here , some other place , I do n't know . |
| 10 | First of all we wanted that product to be totally open , and I 'll qualify in a minute or two a little bit more what I mean by totally open . |
| 11 | Similarly in a wedding speech statements about religion or politics might result in a quarrel or give offence by causing people with opposing views to disagree , insult each other , or try to convert each other . |
| 12 | He spoke as a connoisseur might speak of a cheese or a wine . |
| 13 | The paper was of poor quality and had been torn off a pad of the kind you might keep in a kitchen or by a telephone . |
| 14 | At eleven a child might transfer to a grammar or central ( technical trade ) school or remain in a ‘ reorganised secondary school ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I might stop on a day or two . ’ |
| 16 | Say you 'll sleep on a sofa or a table , and you 'll be all right . |
| 17 | I used to go to his characters for help as a Catholic might go to a priest or a sick man to his doctor . |
| 18 | Cos we might feel when we come out there we 'll look at the turkey , might go for a walk or go |
| 19 | WordScan Plus ( WSP ) is what is known as an Omnifont system — it is designed to recognise virtually any typeface you might encounter in a business or commercial publication . |
| 20 | Every Buddhist boy became a monk for a period , it might be for a lent , or a year or two , it might continue for a lifetime or be as short as a week . |
| 21 | ‘ If there 's nothing to scare them further they 'll tire in a mile or two more . |
| 22 | When you get back to your branches , you 'll be allocated a tray or a pigeon hole or something or other , and you 'll find within a month or so , that you get on all the mailing lists , and you end up with all this bumf . |
| 23 | So such a child might say to a carer or someone they trust , ‘ Look after my Mummy and Daddy , please , because they are very upset . |
| 24 | Occasionally , as with the case of part-time farms or even some full-time farms , one or more family members may work in a factory or shop in the town in order to support the family farm . |
| 25 | He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’ |
| 26 | The problem for would-be physiological psychologists is that until relatively recently there have been no other natural phenomena or man-made devices that we understand better than human behaviour that could act as a model or analogy . |
| 27 | If it could boot from a network or a CD , disk space would be less of an issue but it ca n't . |
| 28 | No it could do in a moment or two though it er , it looks a bit ominous , you rub one or two er doubts , they are similar colour to these actually |
| 29 | If Zafferana was saved from the lava , which could flow for a year or more , it would be ‘ a complete fluke ’ , he said . |
| 30 | He also arranged with the school resource centre for him to have access to the library area at certain periods , during which he could relax with a book or magazine . |