Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] on some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that we have no privileged access to the minds of others we must proceed on some hypothesis about mental events or mental states . |
| 2 | The idea came from old Mrs Ferrar , who proposed that from time to time the family should confer on some subject which should ‘ tend either to the information or to the excitement of the affections ’ . |
| 3 | I 'll put on some wood and then make us a cup of tea . ’ |
| 4 | And Mummy 'll put on some coffee for Daddy . |
| 5 | As Feldman told him : ‘ ( It was ) making it obvious that the Establishment and the outrageous could meet on some level . ’ |
| 6 | Mrs Willmot was now going on about a film evening in October : ‘ I thought you could lay on some nature things — I know that 's your forte . ’ |
| 7 | The Act lists basic questions to be asked but permits census-to-census variation and often a census will concentrate on some topic of current interest . |
| 8 | The new borrower will insist on some element of non-recourse . |
| 9 | ‘ It will depend on some test , ’ said Rachaela vaguely . |
| 10 | Much route planning will rely on some form of memory for the potential routes available , either in terms of a cognitive map of the environment or procedural knowledge of following the route ( e.g. Evans , 1980 ; Thorndyke & Hayes-Roth , 1982 ; van Winsum , Alm , Schraagen & Rothengatter , 1990 ) . |
| 11 | Nothing is more frustrating than designing a pattern and taking hours to get it right only to find that , when it is knitted up on the machine , the whole thing is either squashed almost flat , or stretched lengthways so as to be almost unrecognisable as the original design , which can happen on some design systems . |