Example sentences of "[modal v] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or may the most helpful interpretation be to align the two child care positions with opposing camps in the field of psychological explanation ? |
| 2 | This means that the genetic change would be passed on should the genetically engineered egg become a person who reproduces . |
| 3 | The question I 'm asking myself is : should a really good preamp need any EQ reinforcement ? |
| 4 | The Necromundans glanced curiously at that blind , fey figure of a man who was as alabastine as the idol of the primarch — his flesh almost translucent — yet who could speak with his mind from star to star , and could even report directly to the Emperor , should a sufficiently momentous situation arise . |
| 5 | I suppose you might a very simple spreadsheet , then er , just adding up a column of numbers is hardly get that wrong . |
| 6 | He suggests the army could no longer be used to drain off the unemployable proletariat by conscription , nor could the newly independent colonies be used to dump the troublesome of society ( see also Hughes 1987 ) . |
| 7 | How could a violently anti-system movement conceived for an extraordinary emergency akin to that of 1940 adapt to a gradualist parliamentary strategy ? |
| 8 | Power stations use up valuable resources and create pollution — but could an environmentally friendly alternative be blowing in the wind ? |
| 9 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 10 | Every garden need a little high drama . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that the corporate lungs of the BBC would have heaved a not so silent sigh of contentment at a Lib-Lab coalition , as would the equally capacious lungs of the Health Service , Education , and others . |
| 12 | But would the superficially reassuring figure of Mr Smith get Labour out of its bind ? |
| 13 | So would the most intriguing proposal now doing the rounds in Congress . |
| 14 | Would the more explicit specification in a policy like E four of Humberside , excuse me , that the development should not be speculative , in other words that the end user should be known , overcome some of your concerns ? |
| 15 | Here again , though , this is not by itself to say that where a co-operative can get properly started in a capital intensive business , it would find it more difficult to compete than would a conventionally organised firm . |
| 16 | If as in pluralistic societies , individual enterprises were free to scan the market place themselves , they might duplicate purchases but , in the aggregate , would also spot more opportunities than would a relatively small number of foreign trade officials . |
| 17 | He observes that ‘ the rider with high ambitions and little knowledge will be more inclined to revert to punishment than will the more experienced rider . |
| 18 | Can the fundamentally religious ritual be the new foundation of a piece of modern art , to be evaluated according to purely aesthetic criteria ? |
| 19 | To overcome this problem Brown ( 1980 ) advocated the use of a retrospective approach so that not only can the most recent stages be assimilated but also the knowledge of research on contemporary processes may be incorporated . |
| 20 | Not only can the more elongated whelks withdraw further into their shells , sometimes disappearing completely from view , but also the narrow aperture prevents a crab from obtaining a satisfactory purchase on the lip with its chela ( Vermeij , 1974 ; Hughes and Elner , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | If line B may be more specific than line A , we can ask , In what way can the somewhat vague language of A , , " they will change , substitute , renew ( their ) strength " , be specified further by B ? |
| 22 | Nor can the often minimal presence of women in the politics and elected assemblies of the Western democracies . |
| 23 | I mean , you can a completely different viewpoint |
| 24 | Or can a more positive interpretation be sustained , with France emerging as a close rival to Britain from the eighteenth century onwards ? |
| 25 | can a radically different work still be carried on under a single heading or department when there is not just diversity of approach but more serious and fundamental differences about the object of knowledge ( despite overlapping of the actual material of study ) ? |
| 26 | The theological question is not Can a woman priest represent a male redeemer ? but Can an exclusively male priesthood represent human redemption ? |
| 27 | The manuscript , however , can be attributed to the West Midlands , to the diocese of Worcester , and a small number of spellings in the text appropriate to the dialect of this region can be found , as indeed can an equally small number of spellings appropriate to the south-east of England . |
| 28 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |