Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come on let's the new deputy . |
| 2 | okay right let's the meeting . |
| 3 | That 's right , right let's the brushes now , class . |
| 4 | This means that the genetic change would be passed on should the genetically engineered egg become a person who reproduces . |
| 5 | Not only may the manager have insufficient personal skills to do everything , but also far too little time . |
| 6 | Not only may the boundaries of competence vary in distribution and number , they also vary in quality . |
| 7 | Not only may the strength of the light vary , perhaps from full sunshine to overcast , but the colour of the light can also change . |
| 8 | Not only may the recogniser be able to be lexically-driven , but other levels of information ( e.g. syntax and semantics ) should also be able to direct the pattern recognition . |
| 9 | Not only may the meetings of the relevant bodies absorb time and energy , but there is a danger that the number of approaches and instruments may lead to incoherence in international and domestic law . |
| 10 | Not only may the defendant be permitted , in the discretion of the court , to change that plea at any time before sentence , but , when a plea of guilty to a lesser offence than that charged has initially been accepted by the prosecutor with the approval of the court , there can , it appears to their Lordships , be no finality in that ‘ acceptance ’ until sentence is passed . |
| 11 | Long may the scum have their day in the light . |
| 12 | Long may the overdue improvement continue . |
| 13 | Long may the spirit carry on in all all our lives . |
| 14 | So may the world your flights forget , And God forgive , and Willy pardon . |
| 15 | So may the 1990 tax act . |
| 16 | The curse is humorous but grim : as the landscape has been emptied so may the house be abandoned . |
| 17 | Just as the phonetician may wish to make a more detailed , more specific description of the [ b ] under consideration , for example mentioning delayed onset of voicing and some protrusion of the lips during the period of closure , so may the ethnographer wish to specify some of the contextual features in great detail . |
| 18 | Rather as one might almost unconsciously adjust the position of a book to get the best light from a bedside lamp without ever really thinking of angles and directions , so must the tiger get himself into the most appropriate location vis-a-vis the three-dimensional world of scents known to both himself and his normal prey . |
| 19 | Just as degrees of handicap must be seen against a continuum of need , so must the learning of individual children . |
| 20 | I argue that even if only one process were involved , the outcome would depend on conditions and , since conditions vary , so must the behavioural outcome . |
| 21 | But so must the subsidiary places of other modes and classes , despite their conflicting interests . |
| 22 | What is certain is that as the relationship between doctors and their patients becomes less paternalistic , so must the manner in which we seek to obtain their consent for treatment . |
| 23 | The direct observation must be good , and so must the inference . |
| 24 | But as the social role of technology changes , so must the genre whose task has traditionally been to keep one step ahead of science as we know it . |
| 25 | Not only must the contestants behave , but their team-mates are also obliged to conduct themselves properly , even when not fighting . |
| 26 | This is a major issue , since not only must the control information be interpreted correctly , but the printer must know when the control characters have finished and it should start interpreting the following characters as text again . |
| 27 | Not only must the cells differentiate into a wide variety of cell types such as cartilage and neurons , but they have to migrate long distances to very special sites in the embryo . |
| 28 | Not only must the users of such a system find the data relevant and credible , they must also be motivated to use it to improve the overall performance of their activities . |
| 29 | Not only must the temperature be more extreme than the Sun to be practical , but the fuel is different . |
| 30 | The erudition acquired in his Oxford years was displayed in copious references to the medieval doctors , to the Church Fathers , and to Plato and Aristotle before them , in order to show that no infallible revelation could dispossess reason from her task of pursuing truth : not only must the Scriptures be interpreted in the light of reason , but the Old Testament must be seen as leading to the New by progressive revelation . |