Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jeeves is played out , someone should really have a look at the Mr Mulliner Hollywood satires . |
| 2 | Someone could easily make a fire in there . |
| 3 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |
| 4 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |
| 5 | No-one could ever write a book about that , he thought . |
| 6 | There is a chain of contracts and a breach of one may well cause a chain reaction , i.e. a breach of each of the others see paragraph 9–05 above . |
| 7 | But here one may also expect a degree of individual variation . |
| 8 | One may even detect a waning of attention to Roman peculiarities . |
| 9 | However applicable the distinction — and Walsh 's characterization of the " provincial " muftis — may be in the period after the end of the sixteenth century , the position regarding the muftis in the earlier period is rather more complex , for here one must distinguish three classes : first , the Mufti ; second , muftis of a number of cities and large towns , who certainly were of the ulema class ; and third , though evidence regarding them is hard to come by , one may perhaps hypothesize a class of small-town , even village muftis , who may have been , but very possibly were not , of the ulema class . |
| 10 | Early in my journalistic career I learned that one should never use a preposition to end a sentence with — remembering it because it committed the error it condemned ; whatever the consequence , I was now fully convinced that Moose Jaw was not a bad place to be from . |
| 11 | In kung fu one should never allow a technique to extend so far as to be impracticable . |
| 12 | The Aten itself was amoral ; but in life one should always forgive a man who had sinned . |
| 13 | To represent a happening as unforeseeable , however — and herein lies the explanation for the use of the infinitive with to — one must necessarily evoke a position before its occurrence : the stretch of time leading up to it must be evoked as containing no prior indication that it was going to occur . |
| 14 | For that purpose one must sometimes accept a composition of a team or delegation that in abstract terms is different from that which one would wish . |
| 15 | And he only exemplifies a much stronger theme in the work as a whole : the failure of the good , one might even say a sense of ‘ defeatism ’ . |
| 16 | In a declining market one might well expect a business that had earlier established a dominant share position to be able to trade on this position in the short run and increase prices and profits , because rivals are unlikely to come into the market or compete strongly for market share . |
| 17 | for each unoccupied row , r , say nr is the number of positions in this row where one might still put a piece . |
| 18 | In the new year he sent Sixsmith a series — one might almost say a sequence — of screenplays on group-jeopardy themes . |
| 19 | One could even make a case for delaying it until the Club celebrates its Centenary Year 20 years hence . |
| 20 | Of course , it is not necessary to press the actual flowers from the birthday celebration itself , as one could just make a picture for the eighteen-year old as a present . |
| 21 | In the case of a young man of 25 in a managerial or professional occupation with good job prospects one could reasonably expect a multiplier of 17 or 18 . |
| 22 | If , as seems likely , she consolidates this position via the single market , while gaining de facto control of the single currency , one could well envisage a scenario in which a strong Germany was bad for Europe . |
| 23 | There were fruit trees amongst the flowers , here a pear tree , there a currant bush , so that one could either smell a rose , crush a verbena , or eat a fruit ; there were borders of box , but also of sorrel and chibol ; and the stiff battalion of leeks , shallots , and garlic , the delicate pale-green foliage of the carrot , the aggressive steel-grey leaves of the artichokes , the rows of lettuce which always ran to seed too quickly . |
| 24 | Thus , if the whole internal process were slowed down enormously , one could actually see a representation of each command executed by the machine at the lowest possible level of representation . |
| 25 | A belief is indubitable if and only if no one could ever have a reason to doubt it . |
| 26 | ‘ One could certainly build a theory around it . |
| 27 | For example , no one would even attempt a guess about how many people , using conventional equipment , it would take to match SCAMP 's productivity . |
| 28 | One would also expect a difference in attitudes between general managers of state corporations and those of transnationals . |
| 29 | Mr Lamont , who sees the Budget as his attempt at political rehabilitation , was boastful , saying he believed last year 's Budget had contributed to the Tory victory at the election and this one would also prove a winner in the next election in 1996 ‘ or whenever the election comes ’ . |
| 30 | The recognition of cohesion and consistency in preference is important : without it , one would scarcely acknowledge a style . |