Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His view , however , is implicitly gradualist — ‘ a temporal progressive sequence of changes within an evolutionary lineage ’ — and there is no indication of the extensive palaeontological literature of the past decade suggesting an alternative punctuational view , that species may evolve relatively rapidly and then remain unchanged for long periods . |
| 2 | Depending on the nature of the local vegetation , they may subsist almost entirely on grasses , or on the leafy branches of Douglas fir . |
| 3 | Not because they may relate more positively to menstruation and to their sexuality ( as some psychologists have suggested ) , but more likely , I believe , because they rarely have the opportunity to experience menstruation . |
| 4 | Other individuals may assimilate more readily to London English speech . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , ’ he said desperately , ‘ let's eat somewhere else . |
| 6 | Also , remember that many people with HIV infection may remain perfectly well for some years , and it is not possible to tell who is infected just by looking at them . |
| 7 | Also , remember that many people with HIV infection may remain perfectly well for some years , and it is not possible to tell who is infected just by looking at them . |
| 8 | The existence or otherwise of this origin is , as yet , unknown in this twentieth century , and may remain so forever . |
| 9 | This possibility may arise very simply . |
| 10 | Ideally , that should n't be important , of course , since both TrueType and Adobe fonts ought to perform equally well ( I do n't want to get into an argument about which is better here ) , but adherents of one or the other will want to know which they 're using — and when you 've got over 200 fonts on your system , as some folks do , you ca n't always remember which is which . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's stay here tonight , Angel , ’ said Tess , lying down on a flat stone which was still warm from the day 's sunshine . |
| 12 | But we 'll see , we probably ought to go somewhere else . |
| 13 | As happened on almost every occasion when he tried to preach the gospel of Hitlerian Fascism , a man in the crowd suggested that if Joyce thought Nazi Germany such a wonderful place , he ought to go there instead of trying to import its political system into England . |
| 14 | It was , it was really refreshing and su I love live theatre , of course , I really ought to go more often . |
| 15 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 16 | ‘ What he feels , you see , ’ says Caroline , ‘ is that people ought to struggle pretty well all the time against the limitations of the world and their own nature . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ Flavia said with open wretchedness , ‘ I do n't think I ought to come so often now . ’ |
| 18 | Ace is my top driver , and you ought to know perfectly well there 's a great deal riding on his shoulders at the moment . |
| 19 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 20 | Your employer may behave so foolishly or ruthlessly that a sensible settlement of your differences seems impossible . |
| 21 | The second generation may behave quite differently . |
| 22 | However , some groups may need even more . |
| 23 | Indeed , an old person living alone may need nearly as much physical care as those in shared households and this may require quite a high level of family organisation and planning , in which a woman is usually at the centre . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , let's explore more fully what is so important about iteration . |
| 25 | It should be noted that ( a ) where the accused 's behaviour falls within s.2(1) , Ghosh is irrelevant : Wootton , above ; ( b ) that the accused may act dishonestly even though he did something which the civil law allows him to do , such as retain the overpayment of a bet ( Gilks [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 1341 ) ; and ( c ) that as a result of Lawrence v DPP , above , a person may be dishonest despite the fact that the owner has consented to the appropriation . |
| 26 | People may blunder , she thought , and their actions can still have a fine echo ; or they may act all right and the echo can be bad . |
| 27 | The strength of our belief in conformity , based on this ‘ sense of justice ’ may act quite independently of considerations of immediate personal advantage . |
| 28 | This may act entirely independently or as a pre-filter to reverse-flow or trickle system , in which case the packing should include some filter floss just before the water return . |
| 29 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 30 | Snow may linger as late as mid-July . |