Example sentences of "[vb mod] [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 | For the Liberal Democrats , Lord Bonham Carter agreed that Britain 's response to events must not appear to threaten the security of the Soviet Union or attempt to dissolve the Warsaw Pact . |
| 18 | So the argument put forward by Machiavelli that a leader ‘ must not mind incurring the scandal of those vices without which it would be difficult to save the state ’ on the grounds ‘ that some things which seem virtues would , if followed , lead to one 's ruin and that some others which appear vices result in one 's greater security and well-being ’ , is completely contrary to Gandhi 's views . |
| 19 | Applicants must not attempt to indicate a preference for any particular institution . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Imperial Guards must already have encountered the rebel Planetary Defence Force — or the other way about . |
| 25 | If the provision is included in the lease and is exercised , the tenant should not forget to obtain a release of the original guarantor on the execution of the guarantee by the new guarantor . |
| 26 | Increasing the commitment with the treasurer and not to be rash with it but the people understand people who are mostly killed in churches and and either way should not pass to amend a resolution for the Council . |
| 27 | Nonetheless these friends will be aware that the sufferer ultimately has to make his or her own way back to recovery and that " helpful " actions should not serve to enable the sufferer to continue the recovery-threatening attitudes or behaviour without organising his or her own responsibility for the consequences . |
| 28 | Regulation should not attempt to suppress the phenomenon altogether , but ensure , with appropriate penalties for failure , that acid house parties — and whatever succeeds them — cause minimal disturbance to the non-dancing majority , and that they do not become occasions of profit for professional criminals . |
| 29 | It also implied that journalists , even experienced journalists , should not attempt to challenge the guidelines of those who edit or run newspapers . |
| 30 | It is worth recalling some of the advice given earlier about soft systems studies , ie that the analyst should not attempt to convert a problem situation to a situation without problems , but consider how to improve it in a manner and to the degree that is attainable , given the influencing factors in the situation at the time of the study . |