Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought perhaps to add that Edward Spelman was the man who said : " Good God , doth any fellow of a College know anything of Greek . " |
| 2 | ‘ You must not think that Sir Charles spoke to anyone about you , ’ I said . |
| 3 | So even if the new authorities are small in scale this must not mean that District Council staff are at any advantage in obtaining jobs in the new authorities — staff here must be able to compete on an equal basis ( 5.7 ) . |
| 4 | The main communications network should not carry or traffic engineering data indiscriminately ; this type of data should only be provided against requests that have themselves been authorized . |
| 5 | I should not think that Mr Kinnock would have the same need for such structures . ’ |
| 6 | When considering their applicability to particular organizations it is necessary to heed Clegg and Dunkerley 's warning that we should not assume that power resources will have equal utility to the members of all organizations in all situations . |
| 7 | But you should not assume that college teachers are all professionally-trained teachers . |
| 8 | There seems no good reason why the same should not apply before county court proceedings are brought . |
| 9 | This must surely mean that acid rain was natural and the acidification of lochs had nothing to do with power stations . |
| 10 | You may not think that access cards for greater access are a good idea , but what are you proposing should be done to double the age-participation rate in this country ? |
| 11 | In the realm of the print , however , it is safe to say that paper napkins and chewing gum wrappers occupy the lower depths ( though let's not forget that A. Hyatt Mayor , the legendary Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan , acquired torn-off New Yorker covers for the collection as well as Tiepolo etchings ) . |
| 12 | Anyone under 21 might not realise that Rod Stewart was not always a smug , smarmy middle of the road crooner . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll just see if Mr Flint is free , ’ Rachel said jerkily , and she put her on hold , pressing the intercom . |
| 14 | I could only hope that Father Christmas had one up his sleeve for me ! |
| 15 | The man could n't believe it and could only stare as Uncle Mick got up and marched triumphantly up towards Denis and the exit stair . |
| 16 | After the minister 's almost tender observation that ‘ the process of forming a humanistic and harmonious world outlook was now upon us ’ , one could only gape as Reesa Greenberg , from Montreal 's Concordia University , delivered an astonishing plea , entirely in earnest , that museums engage a new art audience in shopping malls . |
| 17 | But the mercury content of the sediment could soon improve if Liverpool Bay follows the pattern of the Manchester Ship canal , where there already been a significant decrease and a corresponding decline of mercury in the estuary 's surface sediment . |
| 18 | Therefore we could not confirm that airway growth is more vulnerable than peripheral lung growth in low birth-weight children as Chan et al showed . |
| 19 | An RUC spokesman said he could not confirm that police officers involved had not been suspended . |
| 20 | They could not agree if Mr Lamont had made life easier for the motorist — presently snapping up more new cars than last year — or not . |
| 21 | Still the 29-year-old could not celebrate because Anders Forsbrand closed with five straight birdies for a 65 which tied the 29-year-old Englishman on 271 . |
| 22 | Pete could hardly wait until Mr Bennet came back . |
| 23 | She could also see that Pete McCarthy and his waitress had just arrived . |
| 24 | Of course , it could simply mean that winter foetuses might not get the same diet as others . |
| 25 | There 's nothing wrong with a man living under an assumed name and besides that , I could n't prove that Mr Broadhurst and Samuel Northcliffe were one and the same , any more than I could prove that it was The Fat Controller who had killed the woman at the Theatre Royal with a spring-loaded hypodermic full of curare , rather than anyone else . |
| 26 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 27 | The men guilty of these outrages did not even have the excuse of their European counterparts , who could sometimes claim that wartime bombing had flattened the great stations which they were replacing . |
| 28 | Friction may also occur when staff managers report to a higher authority in the scalar chain of command . |
| 29 | You really need not fear that Dr. Briant will be anything other than an excellent father to this child . |
| 30 | Since bilateral speech need not imply that speech functions are distributed equally between the hemispheres this does not necessarily conflict with the finding that the proportion of subjects showing a left ear advantage was highest among the strongly left handed . |