Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of writing this , we have realised that it would be helpful to ask Mbuna keepers ( past and present ) to let us have details of any females they have owned , that may have behaved in this way . |
| 2 | That may have worked in different circumstances in a different decade , but in 1992 the people of this country look for something better . |
| 3 | That should get rid of that for you . |
| 4 | That 's er here you are young William and that should get rid of that for you no bother at all . |
| 5 | Some may choose to work with vulnerable elderly people out of altruism , and a genuine desire to work with this age group . |
| 6 | Some may feel coerced into company-centred behaviour , some may accept for instrumental reasons because there is no alternative while others may see the family analogy as the ideal structure for industrial relations . |
| 7 | Some may become trapped at new sites , extravasate , and form secondary tumours . |
| 8 | By 1980 only about 5 per cent seemed to be favourably disposed towards a return of the 1948 refugees , and this may have declined to 3 per cent during the 1980s . |
| 9 | This may have led to some confusion and may explain why the condition , though acknowledged to be common , is not widely recognised . |
| 10 | The general assumption by everyone involved on the Allied side , from 5 Corps up to AFHQ , had been that , in terms of the Yalta repatriation agreement , the " Cossacks " were Soviet citizens , and on that basis the decision in Principle had been made that , however much this may have regretted by some people on humanitarian grounds , the British obligation was to hand them over . |
| 11 | In each case , the new school now contained fry of two different sizes , and so it was clear that some must have come from another family . |
| 12 | In a discussion group at the school concerned , a teacher asked the kids why this should have happened between two friends . |
| 13 | It was not the intention , of course , that all of this should come to pass at one stroke , nor is it clear that it can ever wholly come to pass . |
| 14 | This must include spending by private individuals and by the state , the latter providing for ‘ collective consumption ’ of health and welfare services . |
| 15 | But from Ferrari 's point of view , this must have seemed like grave disrespect : if one legend runs a company , it has an inbuilt interest in creating accompanying , subsidiary legends . |
| 16 | For one person to get more , another must make do with less . |
| 17 | This might have stemmed from inadequate foundations , but what evidence there is suggests otherwise . |
| 18 | This could include providing for zero quotas on all African nations — or selectively reducing quotas to help stop poached ivory slipping into legal trade . |
| 19 | Even if deterrence failed , such attacks would inflict more injury than anything that the British could hope to achieve with conventional forces . |
| 20 | No one really sensible would have got into such a mess in Other world — letting the panic take over and not even trying to think straight . |
| 21 | This would help to account for some of the extra calories expelled in the faeces of those consuming fibre-rich foods . |
| 22 | This would have plummeted to single figures but for the influx of wealthy Iraqi ‘ refugee holidaymakers ’ now fleeing Saddam Hussein 's regime . |
| 23 | This would have led to well-defined thermodynamic and cosmological arrows of time , as we observe . |
| 24 | All this would have fostered among lay people awareness of a spiritual dimension to life . |
| 25 | The latter is certainly played with great energy although even such a generally obvious piece such as this would have benefitted from heightened sensitivity : Gershwin was , after all , influenced not just by the vibrant colours of the tropics but by their warmth as well . |
| 26 | DBL would like to hear from locally-based companies able to supply the following : |
| 27 | DBL would like to hear from locally-based companies able to supply the following : |
| 28 | DBL would like to hear from locally-based companies able to supply the following : — Gold card edge connectors for the electronic industry . |
| 29 | DBL would like to hear from locally-based companies able to supply the following : |
| 30 | This will mean forging with other and different churches creative relationships which express the reality of Christian love , brotherhood , and interdependence ’ ( Pasadena Consultation 1978:4 , 5 ) . |