Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think he should really be telling me all this , but he is demob happy and there is something of the anonymity of the confessional in this dimly lit train compartment , lurching slowly over the snowy plateau of the Kola Peninsula . |
| 2 | The goal of their training must however be to make them aware of their learners . |
| 3 | we 'll certainly be needing them this year , cos the garden 's bare . |
| 4 | I 'll definitely be buying SHE next month ! |
| 5 | ‘ If it was n't all so dangerous , I 'd almost be finding it interesting , you know . ’ |
| 6 | It is worth analysing your reaction to conflict situations since you may unwittingly be making them worse . |
| 7 | A firm which innocently seeks to lower costs and improve product quality may simultaneously be making it harder for entry to occur . |
| 8 | Matters get more complicated still when it becomes evident that a group of students may well be inventing them both as an assignment for a creative writing course , until the students admit that they too are ‘ a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things , an etherised unauthorised other ’ ( 155/733 ) . |
| 9 | Telling you the full story would only be telling you half . |
| 10 | Sue , no doubt , will soon be proving him wrong . |
| 11 | If you ca n't remove the stain yourself , at least you will possibly be making it easier for the professionals to get it out later . |
| 12 | We will probably be asking you some general questions about the Wild Life Park , ie. how many animals there are , how many different kinds etc. , as well as some questions about your own work and the kind of animals you like . |
| 13 | Linfield have five games left this season — all cup finals in a matter of speaking — and manager Trevor Anderson will certainly be treating them that way . |
| 14 | But thank you all , and I wish you you the members and N C V O itself , every good fortune , and I think we 've had such a good day today , and I think Sir Leonard has shown us a really very clear way forward , and I know that the relationships which already exist , and those which will be developed can only be Thank you all very much for your support and help through those years . |