Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British government , for the sake of the world trading system and the welfare of its people , ought to support this vulnerable initiative . |
| 2 | But , as Archer ( 1981 ) points out , class may affect many psychological measures , like mathematical ability and childrearing practices , more strongly than gender . |
| 3 | When you are assessing a patient who is being admitted to your ward , make a list of potential risks which may affect this particular individual . |
| 4 | People who can never dare to move close because of the inevitable withdrawal afterwards may experience little sexual desire . |
| 5 | But the lessons of history would suggest that the animal protection movement , with its emphasis on the welfare of individual animals , may experience some corresponding loss of support . |
| 6 | We feel that this may skew any long-term investment planning for sport . |
| 7 | Some may think all this fresh air has gone to Mr Ward 's head but undaunted , he 's already working on his next project . |
| 8 | At a total cost to local Charge payers of around twenty thousand , some people may think such civic junketing has been terribly excessive but the truth is , Lord Mayor , that this is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 9 | ( You may think this last one rather harsh but many people go through the hourly slice of bread and jam syndrome . ) |
| 10 | there 's no question about it and I thought well let's try the other way , let's , let's throw all this C C Q and , and all the rest of it to see how it falls . |
| 11 | Tony Bottoms ( 1993 ) suggests that this analysis may explain some recent developments in penal systems , such as the rise in importance of relatively impersonal and standardized penalties such as the fine . |
| 12 | It seems to have been a religion that was in transition , which may explain some startling contradictions or apparent contradictions . |
| 13 | Several geological factors may explain this apparent discrepancy . |
| 14 | Unhindered bile flow from the liver , may explain this initial ‘ silent ’ , anicteric period . |
| 15 | The receiver may explain this harsh treatment by claiming that to go beyond meeting the minimum legal position would jeopardise his whole strategy . |
| 16 | Such efforts may eliminate some common inaccuracies , but no set of criteria can avoid distortion caused by the quantification of unlike incidents . |
| 17 | In these circumstances , a futures market may convey some more of the information possessed by the informed traders to the uninformed . |
| 18 | Erm let's change that , let's make that four , so we do n't get confused with this three that 's already in there . |
| 19 | Let's make some close-up studies of it — say a group of six children . |
| 20 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
| 21 | Let's make some quick points that need to be made . |
| 22 | Let's make this seventeen erm add minus whatever this number is . |
| 23 | ‘ Let's make this quick . ’ |
| 24 | Nevertheless , although he may evade these basic criticisms of classical liberalism , Hayek , by rooting his liberal theory in an evolutionary framework , encounters a different problem . |
| 25 | And I like the colour of your dress — you ought to wear that particular shade of red more often . ’ |
| 26 | There is a danger of treating a historical phenomenon ( the lyric poem ) as sui generis , and that may restrict any absolute definition of the kind of text I shall be examining . |
| 27 | ( An example may make this clearer : how does one dramatically improve the spoken English , reading and writing ability , and the IQ , of backward rural children ? |
| 28 | Examples may make this clearer : A : I 've heard that it 's a good school . |
| 29 | The interlocking of rights and duties within a single treaty may make this impracticable . |
| 30 | Only His standards of purity and righteousness can exalt a nation , and we pray that we may make these paramount everywhere . |