Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Should you just want one large fish as a pet then provide as large an aquarium as is possible , with a 36″x15″x15″ being recommended as the smallest .
2 It was from a consultant psychiatrist from the Twickenham Area Health Authority who was fulsome in her compliments then added , ‘ Should you ever need any free psychiatric advice , please do n't hesitate to let me know . ’ )
3 That turned out to be untrue , so why should we now believe these spurious scares about NHS trusts leading to privatisation ?
4 Might it not follow that other steps would need to be taken to help curb local unacceptable populations of rats and mice ?
5 Could I just clarify one other point , erm I did incorrectly advise the panel on the ten miles .
6 Could I just raise one quick issue which I was going to mention under any other business but I 'd like to get it out of the way , and that is er the departure .
7 Could , could I just say that Homeward , I mean there the , the parking is obviously a problem , that that is something that could go by , but I mean , I went to , the last time I went to Homeward , and walked out , and it 's before we had all this rain , my shoes were under water .
8 ‘ How could I ever love that stupid girl ? ’ he asked .
9 How could she honestly make this pigheaded man see sense ?
10 Could we just read this little passage then and er can we share the reading .
11 I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment .
12 When would she ever learn that vital lesson ?
13 Would she ever understand this complex man ?
14 Would you also agree that haphazard impulse is perhaps not the sort of attribute we 're looking for ? ’
15 Will I just dump this whole lot
16 ‘ On the day when unemployment has reached the tragic total of three million , will you publicly repudiate this heartless approach ? ’
17 Can I just do this little bit look just to the end of the branch .
18 Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days .
19 Sorry , can I just make one small comment on that ?
20 Can I , before I adjourn the enquiry er for lunch , can I just raise one other matter which I would be grateful er for .
21 Now , can I just add one other comment to it ?
22 Can I , can I just put some other bit of information in front of you as well .
23 Can you not get that nice edging that 's got a bit of a pattern on it ?
24 Can you really believe this poor boy is a criminal ?
25 Can we just agree one final bit of detail before we pack in , there are a number of procedures now either which we be re- prepared as the basis of today 's discussions , we have only got two , have we , is there just two ? three three 17 18 and 21 21 , I 've got 17 18 21 is choices , it was the first one to come round .
26 Right , can we just have some general
27 Nor can we easily resolve this methodological problem by appealing to any clear theoretical definition of semantic equivalence based on formal syntactic relations between sentences , since even within generative syntax this is a highly unstable and controversial area of linguistic theory .
28 Please , please , please can we not destroy those part-time jobs ?
29 If none of the original material is left in the preparation , how can it possibly have any therapeutic effect ?
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