Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [indef pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic . |
| 2 | So of course nobody can describe ‘ god ’ to you . |
| 3 | Of course something will have to be done . |
| 4 | Of course one may draw on the past as one will . |
| 5 | With this of course one may agree . |
| 6 | Of course one may have bad luck , and a less interesting route may be taken , and I fear that happened to her . |
| 7 | Of course one might argue that working-class women 's tendency to stay in education longer is itself a sign of their status consciousness . |
| 8 | But of course one can form one 's own relationship with one 's god or with mankind in general . |
| 9 | And of course one must keep one or two clean copies for an emergency . ’ |
| 10 | Of course one must put a lot of effort into marginal seats , but in the long term you must not forget the safe ones too . |
| 11 | If the roof blows off such a lavatory , of course one will expect to be annoyed . |
| 12 | Of course no-one can guarantee anything . |
| 13 | It was not the sort of gag one would have expected from Lord King , and it set a certain tone … |
| 14 | A Palace spokesman said : ‘ In times of recession one should look at cost-cutting and the princess has done just this . |
| 15 | That strength of mind one could sense below the surface , that glow of authority that seemed to radiate from his skin . |
| 16 | Finally , should war in fact come , there should be no illusion as to what sort of enemy one would face . |
| 17 | In terms of emotion one could use a grammatical analogy ( see Bolton , 1978 ) that the ‘ occurring ’ emotion expressed by a participant is a verb , whereas the emotion portrayed by a performer is descriptive , an adjective , no less . |
| 18 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 19 | Let us now return to consider the kind of assistance one might expect from computers in relation to the particular areas of personnel work referred to earlier . |
| 20 | The conditions producing weakness in this respect are highly complex but at a risk of oversimplification one might say that the balance of payments constraint reflects a relative ‘ industrial ossification ’ of the British economy — a failure to restructure and reinvest on a sufficient scale to maintain the position of the national economy on the world market . |
| 21 | ‘ The path between the car park and the sports centre is quite dark and I imagine it 's the sort of place someone could lie in wait . ’ |
| 22 | With a 75 pence pricetag these brightly coloured necklaces are the sort of gift one might give a child . |
| 23 | In his Analogy , Butler concerned himself with the question of what sort of evidence one must possess in order to believe in God . |
| 24 | Alfred Watkins was hardly the sort of person one would expect to start a movement which would radically affect the way in which we experience the landscape . |
| 25 | He seemed so nice and dependable — just the sort of person one would like for a brother — and it hurt her to think that he might be double-faced . |
| 26 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 27 | The sort of day everyone should have their wedding on . |
| 28 | And I think that 's where the problems emerge , that they 're not doing anything , I think , quite often different to the sort of behaviour one might find elsewhere , but there 's a question of how , as an institution , you regulate the behaviour that 's acceptable within your own walls . |
| 29 | I did n't think it was the sort of behaviour one should expect from a Director of Coaching . |
| 30 | This is because it reminded me of the type of frame one might put around a tapestry or sampler , and I feel this symmetrical design is somewhat reminiscent of sampler work and needlework in general . |