Example sentences of "[modal v] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And may that play also include their song , like the playful growls and snarls of puppies and kittens , or even of their parents ? |
2 | Holyoak believes that the council has been bamboozled into adopting LET's monolithic scheme which has had outline planning permission for the last year . |
3 | ‘ Dear God , we beseech ye , visit the reactive wrath of their own foulness upon those nasty wee buggers in the Khmer Rouge in general , and upon their torturers , and their leader Pol Pot , in particular ; may each iota of pain they have inflicted on the people of their country — heathen or not — rebound upon their central nervous system with all the agony they originally inflicted upon their victims . |
4 | Tom Robb , a teacher of over 30 years , can lend advice on may technical problems . |
5 | Tom Robb , a teacher of over 30 years , can lend advice on may technical problems . |
6 | Consequently , not only may inadvertent delay or failure to implement decisions go undetected but officers may attempt to ‘ amend ’ or ‘ shelve ’ decisions which they dislike ( see Greenwood and Wilson , 1982 ) . |
7 | Why may this patient develop bladder problems postoperatively ? |
8 | And how may this variety formation proceed to new species formation . ) |
9 | The congregation prayed that they might follow ‘ the example of his courage and constancy , his meekness and patience and great charity , and may this kingdom be freed from the vengeance of his righteous blood ’ . |
10 | And may this book be at least a small stepping-stone on your way . |
11 | Is the Secretary of State obliged to make the decision on the period which a life sentence prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence personally , or may this task be performed by a junior minister on his behalf ? |
12 | The Irish Government may some day allow non-Catholics , and Catholics too , to buy contraceptives in Eire . |
13 | Moreover , the receivers may some day want to use the imprecision and ambiguity to their advantage . |
14 | Viscount Simon and Lord Simonds reserved their opinions on this question , and Lord Porter considered that opinions expressed supporting the application of the rule to personal injuries are an undoubted extension of it , ‘ and may some day require examination . ’ |
15 | Father Heidt feels women like Gloucester Cathedral Chaplain , Vivienne Faull , are being conned by the debate into believing they may some day be ordained . |
16 | But rather than helping the development of the country , these petrodollars would spread chaos and disappointment among millions of people , while offering fabulous opportunities of corruption to the court , the Shah 's family and may foreign companies and merchants . |
17 | In the Middle Ages it was generally accepted that women 's ears turned men on to the same extent as the more obvious feminine attributes ; that is why so may medieval headdresses ensured that women 's ears were discreetly covered . |
18 | It may misrepresent English and Irish experience to draw analogies between Spenser and current perspectives , but it equally is misplaced to deny that past and present discourses about Ireland possess noticeable similarities which have larger cultural consequences . |
19 | By contrast , in a literary passage , especially when using verbatim scoring ( see Harrison , 1980 , for a discussion of different cloze scoring methods ) , a cloze score may misrepresent understanding by being artificially low . |
20 | What social services ought this generation to be constructing which the next or next but one will erect when the need for them is already yielding place to others ? |
21 | After orientation the intermediary should : Want to extend the general knowledge obtained according to objectives 1–5 , in order to carry out searches on may different databases , via different processing systems , for end-users . |
22 | The exceptional talents of CI5 are spread quite thin in the pursuit of protection for all manner of important persons , from very may different nations . ’ |
23 | Should monetary compensation be made available as a remedy in public law , and if so , on what basis ? |
24 | What form should monetary policy take ? |
25 | It clearly influenced the League of Nations Union ‘ Peace Ballot ’ , held in June 1935 and involving about eleven and a half million people , the majority of whom voted in favour of disarmament and the need for collective military action against aggressor nations should economic sanctions fail . |
26 | Should private individuals be given a remedy through the courts ; or should it , rather , be left to some public official , such as the Attorney-General , or to Parliament or an ombudsman , or to some officer or body within government itself to supervise the activities of government ? |
27 | What should each prisoner do , if motivated solely by self-interest ? |
28 | Scholars will remember the original theory of the CAP was based on what was known as ‘ the law of comparative advantage ’ — in short , countries should each farm crops and enterprises in which they had a significant economic advantage . |
29 | These components should each bear reference to the development plan . |
30 | Should each area/region be encouraged to produce a joint " dementia plan " ? |