Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [noun prp] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 If McHale reverts to a 4–2–4 system Thompson will push on the right flank with Mark Ash recalled to right-back after being left out for the last three games .
2 She also had some concern as to whether in eight week Alan might develop a taste for the alcohol , the chocolate , and even the cigarettes !
3 I suppose over here we were not too aware of his antics when he was playing in france but i suspect UEFA will take all of that into consideration ( he 's already been banned for 10 months ) .
4 THIS is one circus Moscow could have done without .
5 This says that while it may be all very well to make philosophical statements about evil , evil nevertheless is real , and not merely an absence ; and what 's more it can be resisted , and what 's more still not resisting it ( in the belief that one day Omnipotence will cure all ills ) is a dereliction of duty .
6 She knew the Bourgeois Gentilhomme , and always feared that one day Martha might get into difficulties .
7 One day Penelope would bring home a Tibetan holy man , another time the entire Black Panther party .
8 One day Peter would want to know about his parents .
9 One day America may find itself facing the last generation of its own weapons , which it had sold to its enemy in friendlier times .
10 She used to return year after year in the hope that one day Daniel would keep his appointment .
11 There are complaints that , while one day Cruickshank will address you by your first name , the next day ‘ he 'll walk past as if he 'd never met you ’ .
12 It was just accepted that one day Sara would have a little inheritance .
13 The fourth to be hurt , while Victoria Sanchez waited patiently on the sidelines , knowing that one day Miguel would realise how much he loved her and wanted her to be mistress of the Casa Madrid .
14 Yeah she will but I said to Tracey I said one day Carla will beat her and she said I know she will .
15 One possibility which did not exist for Franca , since something in her had already killed it dead , was that one day Jack might tire of Alison , or Alison of Jack .
16 She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready .
17 We hope one day Brian can polish the mantle piece and display our gold plated trophy and maybe perhaps carry the flag in the next Olympics .
18 The kings had been pretty poor specimens as ‘ sons ’ : they showed little enough of Yahweh 's family likeness , and there was a long-standing hope in Israel that one day God would bring into the world a messianic Son , a worthy ruler to sit on David 's throne .
19 However the link was not lost , and the hope grew in Israel that one day God would raise up a prince of the Davidic line for whom the Spirit would be no passing enduement , to be bestowed and with drawn as he joined his predecessors in disobedience .
20 SWEET DREAMS : One day Heidi may have a real home and a proper cot Pictures : BILL KENNEDY
21 Meanwhile , London Division One outfit Tabard will have the crowd on their feet when they host First Division giants Northampton .
22 His old classmate , Gil Kenny , who later became a local police chief , said no one thought Jack would set the world alight .
23 Flynn got all the really difficult contracts , or the ones John was unsure of being able to visit regularly ; Flynn was the one man John would trust to manage an entire contract on his own .
24 Just one thing Matt may have been a toyboy ten years ago , but what should he be called now ?
25 That talent was presumably the main reason for his appointment , and that 's only right and proper because if there 's one thing England can learn from Bob Dwyer , it is that you sometimes have to be prepared to let a young side lose in the short-term to gain in the long-term .
26 One way SSDs can address the problem , said Wilkes , is to assess the needs of young people and workers .
27 THERE have been lucky winners of the Grand National but , of them all 100–1 chance Foinavon must rank supreme — and may also have been indirectly responsible for saving the race .
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