Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the dining room should bc a particularly interesting room to decorate , because , like the bathroom , it is generally used for comparatively short periods of time , and then mostly at night . |
| 2 | and we 'll just a wee gentle syringe and it 'll all come away . |
| 3 | Yeah might just a little banker ! |
| 4 | You 'll probably a twelve ! |
| 5 | The immigration of African slaves may have been a factor , as might also a degree of interaction with the aborigines that was missing further north . |
| 6 | It is not without significance that the sub-title of his autobiography is ‘ The Story of my experiments with Truth ’ , and his whole life might well a interpreted as an attempt to live in accordance with or an existential quest for Truth . |
| 7 | Without the abortion I 'd only a ten per cent chance of survival . |
| 8 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 9 | Nor did the kingship make for singleminded action on the battlefield : Sparta found ways of getting round the more obvious difficulties of dual command , but a king could always be brought to book by the oligarchic element ( the gerousia or council of elders , which was responsible for political trials ) or by the democratic — the Assembly , which could fine a king and limit his powers ( cp. p. 161 for Agis in 418 ) . |
| 10 | A chuchet storm was the time we were just in from April when the peesies were laying and there 'd just a come a flurry of snow . |
| 11 | That 's right some which m could possibly a bit wider than |
| 12 | The second event featured two local sheep shearers , and , and a New Zealand expert , showing just how fast they could part a sheep with its woolly coat . |
| 13 | Now this is the first weekend Kate we 'd really a good weekend you know I 've worked and worked and last weekend I could do nothing . |
| 14 | All I 've had today was a pastie , I thought I 'd fast a bit . |
| 15 | You 'd either a cart or a horse and cart , or a tractor and trailer , and you 'd nice peat , and all these heaps of muck and you knew that when there was n't anything else to do you 'd got to get out there and spread it . |
| 16 | He may also a number of magic weapons and other items as described below . |
| 17 | Even if the index is computed using midquotes , there will be a short lag in computing and disseminating the index , and there may also a short lag before market makers adjust their price quotations . |
| 18 | The local working class may now a an ‘ encapsulated community ’ , ‘ a village within the village , suspicious of and resistant to any intimate social contact with the commuters and the second home owners ’ ( Newby 1979 , p. 161 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps you would rather a good shafting than the whip ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Yet I would rather a resolution less wasteful . |
| 21 | Would rather a cat be out cos it wants to be out . |
| 22 | A glossary of technical terms and abbreviations would have been useful , as would also a general bibliography . |
| 23 | And given the general increase in mobility , would even a massive increase in investment in railways make much difference to road traffic ? |
| 24 | Would even a hidden master squander a whole planet simply to test one individual ? |
| 25 | DURING my time in Germany ( 1984-88 ) the British Ambassadors in Bonn and East Berlin would twice a year set off on an official tour , once in his territory and once in mine , to gather impressions about the relationship between the two parts of the divided German nation and how it might develop . |
| 26 | The overlap with the districts needs to be eradicated , it 's a black hole at the moment , every district can pass a its surplus on to another district , and indeed it would be the last district to prepare a district wide local plan that has to meet the residue of the Greater York requirement , it may maybe a good stimulus for the districts to get on with their local plans , but that 's not an planning way . |
| 27 | A free market will undersupply a public good because of the free-rider problem . |
| 28 | I will quite a lot . |
| 29 | Well I can only A four . |
| 30 | He can fine a player up to 75 per cent of his match fee or suspend him for up to three Test matches . |