Example sentences of "a [noun] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is a great risk in counting from directories because a route might allow the listing of several destinations as though they were separate journeys , and the increase , although undoubtedly substantial , may have been much smaller than it appears . |
| 2 | The party ultimately having to make a payment will look for ways to postpone that event for as long as possible , and will be able to do so without risk if there is no interest provision . |
| 3 | Yet Martha was a woman of courage , and she succeeded nobly in satisfying her hungry lodgers with wholesome fare , and spreading for them sheets a prince might fold around him ; and though the body was often weak , the spirit was lively , and soon found a way whereby to mount with ease over any difficulty that might arise in the government of her household or the entertainment of her hospices . |
| 4 | On occasion , however , a prince might oppose his father . |
| 5 | With his friends and allies about him , a prince might discuss future strategy , consider marriage alliances , resolve disputes . |
| 6 | A prince can mak a belted knight , |
| 7 | For example , a girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and marry her . |
| 8 | A rosette on a pelmet can add interest to tired curtains ; small rosettes and bows hide stubborn stains ; while pleated grosgrain ribbon can give plain calico and sheeting fabric a decorative edge . |
| 9 | At any time those with less of a base might withdraw their concession of power from those with more of that base , in which case the legitimacy of that power base is lost . |
| 10 | In any event , the value of such a provision would depend upon the availability of distributable reserves following the breach . |
| 11 | Such a provision would prevent him from making , while still employed , preparations for competing after the termination of his service agreement ( Thomas Marshall ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1979 ] Ch 227 ) . |
| 12 | Where spray bottles are more widely used and there is a risk of confusion colour coding is desirable and such a provision would take precedence over our control needs . |
| 13 | Such a provision should specify the air waybill 's basic requirements , including , given its peculiarities , its designation as an air waybill , or its functional equivalent , mandatory and optional statements or notations such as indications of receipt by the carrier or agent , reception stamps , flight dates and numbers , and airports of departure and destination . |
| 14 | Frequ ently such a provision will require claims to be notified in a particular manner — in writing , or to a particular person . |
| 15 | However , whilst such a provision can prevent the business losing the battle of forms , it can not guarantee victory . |
| 16 | Mrs Hatton , even more expertly , kept it under a piteous control that only a brute would have the brashness to disregard . |
| 17 | I thought of its maker ; Lawrence the animal ; Lawrence the master craftsman ; such an amalgam , so potent ; take away the magic of hand and eye — no replica of the key ; take away the brute — no key to replicate , for only a brute could have done to Holy Harding what Lawrence did to Holy Harding — Holy Harding , school monitor , altar boy , server in the Cathedral of ix … |
| 18 | Duhm found the parallelism here " rather feeble " which is indeed the case if the ideal is synonymity , but not at all the case if other relationships between the lines of a couplet can exist . |
| 19 | Nursing as work or as a vocation can mean different things to different people . |
| 20 | The clinical terms project was started last year to develop a set of terms comprehensive enough to cover anything that a clinician might need to write in a patient 's record . |
| 21 | To call oneself a reductionist will sound , in some circles , a bit like admitting to eating babies . |
| 22 | Hsu had twice previously attempted to return to Taiwan but had been quietly turned away by officials nervous of the publicity a trial would attract . |
| 23 | Most of the cases determined after a trial would have been begun by a writ issued in 1985 or 1986 . |
| 24 | Perhaps no society which had surmounted such a trial could consider itself as simply one power amongst many . |
| 25 | The death of a sister might involve deep grief , part of which might be for the much earlier death of a small sister . |
| 26 | No , a sister could marry at any time , and leave me . |
| 27 | A warrior will plant his spear outside one of the small huts to indicate that he is inside and should not be disturbed , but I ca n't imagine Claudia , chic Parisienne , et cetera , allowing her relationship to be semaphored in this way from outside her own hut . |
| 28 | Their mission complete the men divided into three parties to march to the coast , where it was planned that a submarine would pick them up . |
| 29 | I remember a terrific noise in the night , and thinking that a submarine must have got through after all , dashed into Pop 's cabin to be told that it was only coal being poured into the bunkers below decks ! |
| 30 | Buckets can hold ten records only , and any further records ‘ allocated ’ to a bucket will become part of a synonym chain . |