Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a company to profit , everyone must have a job that can be clearly and succinctly described in less than forty words . |
| 2 | Why everyone should make a will |
| 3 | Magical , mystical , fascinating and colourful , the culture and way of life in the Orient is so very different from our own that everyone should pay a visit at least once during their lifetime . |
| 4 | ‘ Everyone should have a grandmother like yours . |
| 5 | Everyone should have a GP , but it can be difficult to find one if you use drugs . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps everyone should have a weakness , ’ Jessamy said slowly . |
| 7 | If a decision has been taken about liability for emotional injury one way or the other , and there can be no controversy what decision that is , then everyone should have a right that that decision be enforced until it is publicly disavowed in the same way . |
| 8 | ‘ I think everyone should have a donor card because , when your life has gone , you could save someone else 's . |
| 9 | So everyone every everyone everyone should have a copy of the questions in their book just to tell what they 've worked on . |
| 10 | Everyone should have a chain fixed to the front door . |
| 11 | No-one should buy a property solely on the strength of the initial particulars . |
| 12 | Someone ought to strike a blow for women and show this vain man that he was utterly resistible ! |
| 13 | Actual violence may not be involved , all that is necessary is for there either to be a breach of the peace or reasonable grounds for suspicion that someone may commit a breach of the peace . |
| 14 | With any system of control by criminal offences there is always the risk that someone may find a loophole , a way which misleads the public without amounting to an offence . |
| 15 | After all , some day someone may find a solution . |
| 16 | Similarly , someone may ask a question that implies readiness to present some new information . |
| 17 | SO YOU THINK someone should make a film about your life ? |
| 18 | So you still think someone should make a film about your life ? |
| 19 | For the basic beliefs stand in inferential relationship with more interesting beliefs about public objects , and these beliefs are certainly dubitable ; there is always a possibility that someone should have a reason to doubt them . |
| 20 | ‘ Someone should keep a weather eye on young Geoffrey . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Someone must make a hole in the sheep 's side , ’ explained Billy , ‘ with a special tool . |
| 22 | Someone must have a tale to tell in our company . ’ |
| 23 | I was n't dependent on coke , any more than it was nice to have a line after a heavy day — just like someone might have a glass of wine . |
| 24 | I thought someone might get a couple of black eyes or something . |
| 25 | Praps someone could do a song for it … either terrace , or even the ‘ lovely ’ Cantona one ( complete with dozey birds trying to dance and miming the words ? ) ? |
| 26 | I dare say someone could cross a road with the best of intentions — to help an old lady perhaps , or to look at a fruit-shop — then slip on a banana-skin and cause a perfectly horrible accident . |
| 27 | She wished that someone would invent a button that you pressed , and shazam ! — you were tucked in bed , washed and with your teeth brushed . |
| 28 | I wish someone would put a stop to smoking on television . |
| 29 | Curtius Kenn was a bloody nuisance , and sooner or later someone would put a ScumStopper under his heart and get himself free drinks on the house for a month . |
| 30 | ‘ D' you imagine that some day someone will invent a gramophone that will play a record with a whole opera on one side , so that we could put the prelude on with the soup and have the finale with our cheese without having to get up ? ’ |