Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Although many patients are quite fit when admitted to the ward , they will become completely dependent when they have an anaesthetic and may only slowly return to independence after a surgical procedure .
2 In other words , Bukharin completely forgot that the extended reproduction … must not only lead to growth of c and v but also to that of α , i.e. to the growth of the individual consumption of the capitalists .
3 I have been quietly considering if we too should not likewise break with philology … as practised till now " .
4 Nevertheless , you should once again proceed with caution if you wish to make any claims on the basis that you have been dismissed .
5 Instead of returning to the dressing-room to change as she normally did , she made her way through the backstage area back into the club , determined that he should n't simply disappear without trace as he 'd done on the previous evenings .
6 While a man should never consciously prepare for violence , the latter is always preferable to cowardice or emasculation .
7 There are various types of easel , and choice should very much depend on practice .
8 There are various types of easel , and choice should very much depend on practice .
9 These might have been held to be missing links in a chain of which the links were very small in some places , and large ( so far ) in others ; but this idea conflicted with the notion that God would have created the best of all possible worlds , which should therefore not change over time since all change must be for the worse .
10 It 's not it 's not as straightforward , the conclusions in respect of one may not necessarily apply in respect of the other .
11 POU family proteins may not only function as transcription factors .
12 Marslen-Wilson , Tyler and Seidenberg ( 1978 ) take the view that this online view of language processing is not necessarily inconsistent with a weak form of the clausal hypothesis , in that once a complete information unit ( which may not always coincide with clause boundaries ) has been interpreted , other processing which results in the freeing of working memory then takes place .
13 ‘ She 'll probably still fall in love with you , ’ Jessamy said drily .
14 Indeed , by about the middle of the morning we feel surprisingly alert — we might even not bother with sleep after all — and we appear to have overcome the effects of a lost night ‘ s sleep .
15 Although they are a larger and less tightly-knit group , this might well also apply to agency secretarial workers .
16 If driven out of the exchange-rate mechanism ( ERM ) , a country might no longer qualify for EMU .
17 The thing is , he 'll likely not move till Palm Sunday , I should have thought on — we 'll take the old road over to Demontis 's farm and come back here at six this evening when Piladu will be milking .
18 But Pardy had known he was in a crowded place and that animals were involved which might very well react with panic at his action .
19 That 's er a little bit of fun in that , but er we might have a little bit of advice for you if you are preparing to receive guests you 'd rather not see over Christmas .
20 ‘ Well , if you did n't put it under my door yourself , maybe you 'd better just check with Reception downstairs . ’
21 I do n't know how long I 'll be — you 'd much better get off home . ’
22 Why bother , when we could so easily pay in cash ?
23 He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust .
24 Even if one remains within the traditional canon of the eighteenth century , it is hard to believe that a major critic could so easily dispense with Goldsmith , Crabbe , and Burns .
25 ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money .
26 ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money'
27 There was one resignation from the committee in June , Elise felt she could not longer continue as publicity officer and we asked Rosetta to step into that office .
28 He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance .
29 She wept softly , while he held her and believed in the augury that this happiness could not possibly end in death on a battlefield , for such an end would be against all that was good and sweet and lovely in the world .
30 All who have given thought to the matter agree that an apparatus as complex as the human eye could not possibly come into existence through single-step selection .
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