Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This hope it begins to appear , admittedly with hindsight , looks to be one that must remain unfulfilled using current methods . |
| 2 | Well , I just want to tell her that I understand her predicament and that she should feel free to call old Sam up anytime . |
| 3 | It was unacceptable , in his view , that an ally such as the US should feel free to criticize French policy in Algeria . |
| 4 | The children must feel confident to use any means they have to pass the message . |
| 5 | They must feel able to ask any questions they like . ’ |
| 6 | You must use EVAL to convert hexadecimal number strings . |
| 7 | They added : ‘ Some men might feel fortunate to experience this sort of thing . ’ |
| 8 | Preferably an ex 39 Squadron member or any ex-RAF personnel who might feel able to dedicate some time to assisting the Group 's efforts at North Weald . |
| 9 | Other new words which might sound familiar include sloane ranger , Rambo , kissogram and decaf . |
| 10 | At first sight it might seem strange to consider unconscious forces within a concept of consciousness . |
| 11 | And since I 've just sworn an oath to this effect , it might seem pointless to offer further assurances , particularly since I ca n't back them up . |
| 12 | But because some intrauterine deaths will always occur before 42 weeks it might seem sensible to deliver all babies at 42 , 41 , or even 40 weeks . |
| 13 | 18–1–1915 The Session had under consideration the question of the running of the public motor bus for pleasure on the Sabbath Day on certain occasions last summer , and the probability that such facilities may be increased this year , and instructed the Moderator to bring the matter to the notice of the Presbytery , with a View to the Presbytery taking such action as they may deem advisable to prevent such encroachment of the Lord 's Day . |
| 14 | So they went to the Kildingy Well which was s supposed to have some kind of magical properties you see and er I do n't ken if it was a a holy well or exactly but it certainly was reputed to have some kind of properties that could cure supposed to cure any disease save the black death . |
| 15 | The workings of cognitio seem to have continued much as before , so the beneficiary of a trust would remain able to obtain specific performance . |
| 16 | We may also say that the linguistic expressions ( or their meanings ) that appear in particular token constructions identify entities and properties ( and we shall feel free to extend this use of identify to the activity of the speakers and writers who use the constructions ) . |
| 17 | Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them . |
| 18 | It would sound odd to put this description into the past tense , with " described " and " constructed " , unless you were deliberately emphasising the the fact that this book was produced at a particular point in the past , for example in order to compare it explicitly with a book written more recently . |
| 19 | But it does add : ‘ The very purpose of our effort to strengthen conventional forces is to prevent a situation in which it would become necessary to use nuclear weapons to stop a conventional attack ’ . |
| 20 | If prices remained high for a number of years it would become economic to develop marginal deposits in other parts of the world , such as Indonesia , New Guinea , New Caledonia , Peru and the US . |
| 21 | But such was the resistance from management , it was feared that it would become impossible to recruit top-quality personnel from the private sector if they were going to be subject to oversight from the Comptroller . |
| 22 | I would have like to see some attempt to error-trap the data input routine , but help with record location is good and editing is easy , so reliance on the good sense of the computer operator should be a feasible proposition . |
| 23 | Professor Hugh Miller , also from Aberdeen University and who had advised on the Commission 's 1984 paper which questioned the link between acidity and fish losses , wrote that ‘ there is at present no evidence of damage ’ and ‘ When worried about the health of our trees it would seem preferable to heed qualified forest pathologists rather than respond to assorted ecologists and conservationists , no matter what their nationality . ’ |
| 24 | it would seem desirable to encourage individual police officers to come [ to the college ] to do research on their own account . |
| 25 | It would seem fair to conclude that while for the bulk of the population Hitler 's image was no doubt related in an abstract fashion to finding a ‘ solution to the Jewish Question ’ , this was an issue which people either gave little thought to or deliberately turned their minds from , and that , correspondingly , Hitler 's public attacks on the Jews were something absorbed with little deliberation , forming no central part in explaining either the high peaks of his popularity or the collapse of the ‘ Führer myth ’ in the last years of the war . |
| 26 | So it would be erm it would seem natural to think that anorexia fits into this picture somewhere . |
| 27 | This would give equal weight , one-third , to each value ; as the data has already been smoothed it would seem sensible to give more weight to the middle value . |
| 28 | It may seem strange to include this chapter , but there are two reasons . |
| 29 | None may prove able to aid 10-year-old Paul Mainwaring , of Aintree , Liverpool — but other patients could be saved by their kindness . |
| 30 | If the power is exercised , the proceeds are applicable in the same way as the proceeds of a sale ordered by the court , and the mortgagor will remain liable to pay any deficiency . |