Example sentences of "a [noun] [modal v] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever such a literature might lack in technical sophistication will , it is alleged , be more than compensated for by ideological exuberance . |
| 2 | In these circumstances membership of a CU may result in large scale unemployment which could persist until the appropriate restructuring of the industrial base takes place . |
| 3 | I 'm inviting you to consider how far a Christian should go in forgiving and to how far a Christian organisation like this school should go , in showing forgiveness er I just want to kick you off with one or two points on each of those . |
| 4 | Mr Stewart claimed that any move to impose a supertax would result in Scottish jobs being lost to London . |
| 5 | So the decision a judge must make in hard cases is discretionary in this strong sense : it is left open by the correct understanding of past decisions . |
| 6 | It becomes abundantly clear from these accounts that then as now , family support was a two-way process , and that responding to a crisis could result in intense friction as well as in deep affection . |
| 7 | Wing specialists do n't even understand wings with full mathematical precision : they can predict how a wing will behave in turbulent conditions , only by examining a model in a wind tunnel or a computer simulation — the sort of thing a biologist might do to understand an animal . |
| 8 | We were fearful that a halt or a delay would result in other unfortunate occurrences in the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | A mis-diagnosis can result in unnecessary component removal and systems disturbance with the associated expansion of departure delay time . |
| 10 | He is known to have favoured that , but it is rejected by the report as a ’ a crude device which can not do justice to the different abilities a pupil may show in different subjects and contexts ’ . |
| 11 | Such a State should act in good faith so as not to frustrate the objects of the treaty . |
| 12 | It is a poem such as a man would write in contented mood , and Southey for his part thought it ‘ very beautiful ’ . |
| 13 | After all , when people point to the profits , a monopoly can turn in large profits year after year , whether it is efficient or not . ’ |
| 14 | Some of these carry toxic cargoes and an accident could result in economic as well as ecological damage . |
| 15 | On the other hand , such an authority must act in good faith , use the powers for the purpose for which they were given , take into account relevant matters and disregard the irrelevant , and must not act in a way so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could have so acted . |