Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I associate my right hon. and hon. Friends with the tribute paid by the Prime Minister to Her Majesty the Queen , and may I join in the other congratulations already expressed ? |
| 2 | right , ah may I call on the first person to whom this is going to be I believe you speak on the |
| 3 | May I impress upon the hon. Gentleman that any case of official error |
| 4 | Now should I go for the yellow diamond , or … |
| 5 | That is this , should I rely on the agape love of my partner or should I strive to be the type of person that my partner could easily love even if no agape love were available ? |
| 6 | On Sunday I went to a car boot sale in Runcorn and what should I see amongst the mangy teddys and oily old spanners but a vintage 60s Leeds Subbuteo team ! |
| 7 | How many should I put in , or should I stick with the six ? |
| 8 | Why should you sit on the hard one ? |
| 9 | Which digit should you put in the hundreds column ? |
| 10 | Can you deal with inflation while bringing in the market , or should you deal with the first problem first ? |
| 11 | Should she cling to the rippling muscles of her bronzed young hunk , Dreamboy David , or turn to the more mature , devilishly witty charms of London window cleaner Barry Hunter ? |
| 12 | Must we turn to the anthropic principle for an explanation ? |
| 13 | Even if we accept , as we should , that Thucydides is right about the ‘ truest cause ’ ( and in the passage last quoted he comes near to running together true cause and alleged reasons , so we should not try to separate them too sharply ) , there is still a major problem : what weight should we give to the various instances of encroachment ? |
| 14 | Should we listen to the few objections of the few people affected ? |
| 15 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 16 | But , but should we deal with the first |
| 17 | Should he start on the idle or concentrate on the incompetent ? |
| 18 | Organisers of the German tournament have kept aside a wild card for the American , who is suffering from tendonitis of the right wrist , should he decide at the 11th hour that he is fit to play . |
| 19 | However in applications where the load is likely to fluctuate the timings must he set for the worst conditions ( i.e. largest load ) and the control scheme is then non-optimal for all other loads . |
| 20 | What gossip might he learn in the old Nell Gwyn pub down the end of the King 's Road ? |
| 21 | May you rot in the foulest mosh-pit of Neds . |
| 22 | Then , and only then , may you look for the individual volume . |
| 23 | Could you advise on the best way of obtaining a loan for three to five years at a reasonable rate ? |
| 24 | " Could you go to the Upper Thames Street branch of the London Metropolitan Bank without it seeming unusual ? " |
| 25 | Could we pass through the seven stages |
| 26 | Could we move to the new music |
| 27 | What could we know about the greater universe ? |
| 28 | Could we dispense with the human eye , and make the computer itself do the selecting , on the basis of some biologically realistic criterion ? |
| 29 | How could he explain to the old woman sitting opposite him that he wore a five thousand pound watch ? |
| 30 | But how could he come from the opposite direction ? |