Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [modal v] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I 'd be better buying mail order , I thought ! |
| 2 | And so the first memories is in the meadows of Nottingham , going to infant school about the age do n't remember starting , but perhaps I 'd be six years of age , and it was a little church school and they were all lady teachers and most of them Mrs and not the Miss which is nowadays er more common . |
| 3 | Erm so if you 're getting another job obviously , you 've got to think that you may not need as much income , er if you 're taking the early retirement well obviously you may be more income dependent , and do a personal budget , going back to that pro forma , if you spend a bit of time doing a budget , you will find it beneficial . |
| 4 | That I think is my main concern , with a request in a sense to you for supporting that over the next year or so , because I 'll be trying to perhaps get invited to the meetings , and perhaps we 'll be inviting officers from the authority to join me in looking at ways of building up that local context in planning to get that into our formal planning systems . |
| 5 | But perhaps there would be some way of persuading her ; at any rate , Emily would not give up her ideas . |
| 6 | Soon perhaps there would be another announcement . |
| 7 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 8 | PERHAPS there should be more hypocrisy in the world . |
| 9 | He said , naturally there would be some changes amongst plant and animal life , but species would adapt to suit the changes in climate and atmosphere and so on . |
| 10 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 11 | If only … if only … if only there could be some way of reaching agreement , some way of reassuring each player that the other can be trusted not to go for the selfish jackpot , some way of policing the agreement . |
| 12 | But if only they were all shorter ; if only there could be some sort of trade-union agreement to lower the recognized height of the canopy in forests , all the trees would benefit . |
| 13 | Keegan said : ‘ Obviously there may be some truth in it , but it has n't come out from this end . |
| 14 | ‘ Obviously there will be some perks . |
| 15 | Furthermore there will be other scholarship boys beside myself , and hopefully my intelligence will provoke less spite than it does at Marshside Junior . |
| 16 | If we can keep 'Lash and Bash from each others ' throats for long enough there 'll be another round-up of reader queries next issue . |
| 17 | This seems to have been the only time that the English king led his men to victory : had the negotiations which preceded his return from exile the same year included a stipulation by those who complained about his previous behaviour ( see below ) that henceforth there should be more determination in dealing with the enemy ? |
| 18 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
| 19 | If this was not so there would be large forces between various pieces of materials . |
| 20 | So there would be stray references and allusions in the feature articles to events of great consequence or intrinsic interest of which even the bird-brained wives of the garden suburbs of malai-land were cognisant but not 1 , Adolph Ng , BA ( Hons ) Toronto . |
| 21 | The chairman called on the Department to take action about those complaints because if it did not do so there would be little industry left to take action about . |
| 22 | But of course if he worked for Raleigh where they 've got a vast labour force a vast pay as you earn scheme then any income would be taxed by Raleigh as a subsidiary source so there would be another code number there , they would actually be collecting tax at two sources , but they would still need to allocate allowances , it may well be that , at Raleigh for example , they 've covered that by allowances in which case they pull back five hundred pounds there to collect . |
| 23 | So there might be two norwegians at Sheff Utd quite soon . |
| 24 | So there might be some touring in the new year ? |
| 25 | So there 'll be two sides of it c er |
| 26 | So there 'll be six people . |
| 27 | Sign it , so there should be two signatures in that little bit of number three . |
| 28 | Er an so there can be profound differences in er if you think of a subject I touched upon last time , a very er contentious issue in American politics , the abortion issue , erm before the Supreme Court dealt with the matter in the nineteen seventies , every state in America had a different law on abortion . |
| 29 | So there will be ample opportunity for every hon. Member to consider in detail what the agreements into which we have entered would commit the country to . |
| 30 | So there will be new recordings of all the French and English Suites , also the Goldberg Variations . |