Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of these are covered in this leaflet as each may affect you personally when deciding whether to take the HIV antibody test . |
| 2 | If your timing is right , Positive ideas of this kind may well give her hope and encouragement , but they should not be introduced too early in the grieving process , or she may regard them almost as an insult to the depth of her sorrow at a time when she is not yet ready to look to the future . |
| 3 | This can be a helpful approach in discussion — someone may regard you as stubborn , whereas you see yourself as determined . |
| 4 | But if the other party does n't use this level of response themselves , they may regard you as insincere or phoney . |
| 5 | It is true that today 's speakers , not knowing the origins of generic he , may regard it as just a feature of grammar . |
| 6 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 7 | But the believer must wait for God 's time of deliverance ; he may think it long in coming — forgetting that God 's time is the best time . ’ |
| 8 | Others may think it digestively more prudent to follow the example of Badger in The Wind in the Willows , sitting down quietly in a commodious armchair for a session with — or maybe under — the newspapers . |
| 9 | Mr Wakerley told the jury : ‘ You may think he soon realised his position was hopeless . ’ |
| 10 | You may think you just nursed me . |
| 11 | I think I ought to see her again — just once , to reassure myself that all the old feelings really are as dead as I believe . |
| 12 | Klaus , is n't it ? and Klara — Oh , of course — ’ corrected — ‘ Erika , Fritz , Rosa … we really ought to see you more often , ought we not ? |
| 13 | Trampling over it may damage it so that it ca n't be used . |
| 14 | Hard thinking and research may aid us individually , and eventually as a species , to counter some of these problems . |
| 15 | Come on , let's make her as comfortable as possible . ’ |
| 16 | I mean it was like years ago I heard things about Down 's children with holes in the heart and why bother to do it , but now everything 's changing — let's make them more normal . |
| 17 | This is now established and we 're pleased with its success ; but let's make it even better . |
| 18 | At last it 's back with us in America , so let's make it fast . |
| 19 | Mm that 's a bit let's make it more awkward . |
| 20 | Certainly erm I do n't know what Norman says , but I would say on the phone to you , Let's make it absolutely clear that this is er in the main a telesales operation . |
| 21 | So let's make it quick , shall we ? ’ |
| 22 | For the hemiplegic patient , it requires extra care , because the patient is likely to be sitting still for much of the day , which in itself may make him more prone to infections , and the risk is magnified if there is any damp or dirty material next to his skin . |
| 23 | Salt concentrations near the surface may make them especially inhospitable to vegetation ; only the soils of damper areas , in which salts are distributed evenly or concentrated at depth , are likely to support plant propagules . |
| 24 | But this , it is claimed , may make them more vulnerable than most to negative emotions when they are shown to be powerless . |
| 25 | We do not deny that some characteristics of prison inmates may make them more or less likely to cause problems — if the prisons predominantly housed old people or nuns rather than young men with past records of anti-social behaviour they would doubtless experience fewer riots . |
| 26 | But , insurers point out , this may make them less able to compete against other financial institutions . |
| 27 | That learned attitude in its turn may make me uncomfortably edgy and aggressive when situations . |
| 28 | The recent liberalization of legal services which allows more people to do conveyancing may make it even more important than it has been hitherto . |
| 29 | A story of marginal interest may make it simply because it was quite easy to sub , whereas another similar story is spiked because the lines were too close together and the margins were very narrow . |
| 30 | I do not believe that a contract which clarifies hours worked or tasks to be done will prevent teachers from caring , but it may make it rather more difficult to implement school-based initiatives . |