Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [indef pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is not the sort of complaint one would expect after years in which Downing Street was running riot by appointing one maverick after another . |
| 32 | But while the breaking of convention may be agreeable , and therefore laughable ( cf. certain views of Freud , below ) , there is never any questioning of what is " right " and what is " wrong " : for that sort of conundrum one should look rather to a romance like Marie de France 's lay Eliduc . |
| 33 | He was always careful to wash his chiselled visage , of course , but in a year of passion one would think some small scent would have escaped , a tracking odour that would put her senses on alert . |
| 34 | the state of the premium trust funds , these are the sorts of consideration one would need to take into account , er a no doubt they would , they 'd need to be argued fully at a , at a later stage , but the only question here is , if your Lordship refers and there 's going to be some delay , well , erm , I was trying to think of an analogous case er and the case which went to the European court at the beginning of last year had consequences which were potentially far more profound than this case is , it was the Case concerned the application of equal pay principles to pensions |
| 35 | He was the sort of man nobody would look at twice . |
| 36 | Richard was the kind of man one could kiss , she thought later , as she kicked off her shoes . |
| 37 | ‘ Well , she might have been angry with him , ’ Adele chattered on , ‘ but he 's not the sort of man one can ignore , is he ? |
| 38 | He does n't look like the sort of man one can get the better of very often . ’ |
| 39 | These vast walls were slashed across with bizarre colours like some monstrous oil-painting … it was the kind of valley one would expect to find in the exotic landscape of a dead planet ’ . |
| 40 | Leeds , UK-based VisionWare Ltd is supposed to announce its fourth product at Xhibition this week , but since it has taken a vow of silence everyone will have to wait until Thursday to find out what 's going on . |
| 41 | At least not the kind of food one would like to eat . |
| 42 | And of course it is the sort of thing one would have told people — something special , idiosyncratic and yet not too intimate about you , and a trait in which ( naturally ) you seemed to take some pride … . ’ |
| 43 | This is precisely the sort of position one would expect given the combination of their respectable backgrounds , in almost all cases their membership of the Free Presbyterian Church , and their belief that the appeasement policies of the government and the Chief Constable have to be opposed publicly . |
| 44 | For this reason , Tinbergen suggested the courtship signal was ancestrally a displacement activity , which is just the kind of activity one would expect from an animal during courtship . |
| 45 | If that sounds like the sort of utterance one might expect from your typical entrepreneur , it is probably because Michael Hirst is a great believer in the art . |
| 46 | Is that the sort of way one should underwrite the position as a deferred pensioner |
| 47 | What I am talking of is , I suppose , the sort of progeny one might expect from a mating between the Arkleton Trust and the government-sponsored Plockton seminar |
| 48 | The optimistic consensus is that they do n't but that one has to be very careful about making them , and the level of detail one can achieve may not be as great as one may like . |
| 49 | To find out what books have been published on topics of interest one can use the British National Bibliography , which since 1950 has listed every new work published in Britain , accumulating from weekly to monthly and to annual publication . |