Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may only have seen the property once , and for all sorts of emotive reasons , may have fallen in love with the place . |
| 2 | ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy . |
| 3 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 4 | But Mr Lawson and the Bank may only have bought a week for sterling . |
| 5 | So does his use of omens and prophecies — a feature of The Lord of the Rings which may furthermore seem to deny the idea of free will being left intact by the forces of providence . |
| 6 | The editor might also have noted the colloquial sense of roaming around which the verb shatatsya carries , for this may perhaps have encouraged the switch from Shaposhnikov to Shatov as the novel began to define itself . |
| 7 | This too may merely serve to let the situation spiral out of control . |
| 8 | It is ironic both that the new architecture of the masses should eventually have ended the dominance of great houses , and that more ordinary men and women should have become protagonists in the novel , for these were not the developments , either in life or in art , that Disraeli had in mind . |
| 9 | I should rather like to have an opportunity of putting to the Prime Minister some of the arguments in favour of handling business through Cabinet Committees . |
| 10 | You may find that you need to apply the solution several times and should obviously avoid doing the gob just before a rain storm is forecast . |
| 11 | As the car 's lights disappeared round the corner , it occurred to Charles that he should perhaps have asked the man to wait . |
| 12 | ‘ We should perhaps have asked the Trees the best path to take , ’ said Floy , presently . |
| 13 | Robert Penfold 's advocacy of pulsed controllers for model railways in the April issue should perhaps have contained a motor health warning ! |
| 14 | Arguably if you need more power later on you should only have to replace the chip , not the whole machine . |
| 15 | We should all have received a report from Roger about one or two accidents that have occurred on sites . |
| 16 | But nor do I think that you should somehow try to cosset the position of the leader of the party . |
| 17 | But the collector of modern first editions must perforce strive to anticipate the judgements of posterity , and that path is littered with blighted hopes and the debris of fickle fashion . |
| 18 | Most of them are concerned with admissibility of evidence , which is not in issue here ; and none , aside from those already mentioned , arose where in the face of clear and general language it was contended that Parliament must nevertheless have intended the words of the statute to have only a limited effect . |
| 19 | Mineral extraction and quarrying were the only other enterprises producing for more than immediate local demand , though practical considerations must generally have limited the distances stone could be transported . |
| 20 | Afterwards she thought that , of course she must already have formulated the plan somewhere at the back of her mind ; but at the time it burst upon her with all the excitement of a vision . |
| 21 | Imperial Guards must already have encountered the rebel Planetary Defence Force — or the other way about . |
| 22 | Coleridge must soon have taken the poem to read to the Wordsworths , and in the following month had an even more substantial achievement to show them . |
| 23 | But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf . |
| 24 | Gómez , who was judged seriously to have weakened the conservative constituency by breaking from the PSC to form the MSN , had also proposed that cocaine be legalized internationally in order to undermine cartel power , and that the UN narcotics commission should directly intervene to produce a peace formula which would enable the cartel chiefs to surrender themselves . |
| 25 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 26 | I was just gon na say , I I think we should possibly stop blaming the media or whatever actually happens and perhaps echo what the the lady earlier said , I think that it 's in our hands , we 're the women that could make this happen ! |
| 27 | You must always remember to shut every gate . ’ |
| 28 | This means that you should always aim to approach the mark on the inside of other boards , even if it means altering your course down the reach . |
| 29 | Rule of Life No. 77 : if you should ever have to attend an inquest or similar official/judicial function : make sure you do n't have a hangover . |
| 30 | She hates being photographed and wonders if she should ever have chosen a career in television . |