Example sentences of "[modal v] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I first welcome you all here . |
| 2 | May I first associate myself with the words of the hon. Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) with whom I fully agree ? |
| 3 | He himself is moved to relieve his distress , but why should my imaginative simulation move me to do the same ? |
| 4 | Should my hon. Friend happen to be in the Cleveland area , I strongly urge her to go to the South Cleveland hospital to see the excellent work being undertaken there with a bone densitometer . |
| 5 | Yet Soviet diplomats had to consider that should their collective security fail to gain acceptance neutrality would be preferable to them to a series of regional alliances in which the Western powers play even a marginal role . |
| 6 | And , if they do , how should their organisational structure be incorporated into the managerial hierarchy of the hospital ? |
| 7 | Yet should their own government , run by fellow noblemen and dedicated to their security , conclude that serfdom was too dangerous to perpetuate , they would bow to the inevitable . |
| 8 | First , came the Secondary Heart which would sustain them should their original heart be destroyed in combat . |
| 9 | Why must her blonde hair , bleached now by the long summer 's light to a ravishing pallor , be chopped so harshly ? |
| 10 | As Brezhnev told the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , ‘ The sovereignty of Afghanistan must be fully protected , as must its non-aligned status ’ . |
| 11 | That 's the first equation , you must it this way , cos any other way will not be accurate . |
| 12 | At the very least , however , unpalatable though the proposals may at present be , they may prove more acceptable than the alternative already foreshadowed by Sir Adrian Cadbury should his own committee 's voluntary code fail to command compliance — the even more unpalatable prospect of governance by legislation . |
| 13 | The important question was how should our great freedom and flexibility be used ? |
| 14 | Morrison 's departure means that in extremis Adam Roxburgh would be the likely replacement should anything untoward befall captain Ian Corcoran at hooker . |
| 15 | Please be sure to offer as many alternatives ( performance , prices , dates or times ) as possible , as our booking office staff will make every effort to accommodate you should your first preference be sold out . |
| 16 | Should your prime aim be to provide a measure of self-sufficiency for your family , a different range of options opens to you . |
| 17 | Might their biggest advantage , however , lie in their most inscrutable institution of all , the Tokyo stockmarket ? |
| 18 | Could my honourable friend explain how that came about ? |
| 19 | Could my Noble Friend er not agree that in fact grant maintained schools have been very successful , not only in raising academic standards in helping parents , but in actually improving the fabric of the buildings |
| 20 | Could my night-time visitor have called in here to pick up the key he had shown me , and left the back door open at the same time ? |
| 21 | How could her young sister have behaved so inconsiderately ? |
| 22 | How long could their own obstruction permit the slave-owners to claim the slaves were unfit for freedom ? |
| 23 | But could their dramatic re-building have been done much more cheaply ? |
| 24 | Could you revised paragraph ten , Fred ? |
| 25 | Could you all sort of pass that round . |
| 26 | The expression on his face had been wary , but what more could she possible hope for ? |
| 27 | ‘ Has she told the police about it ? ’ asked Melissa , wondering if ‘ two-coat ’ could he local dialect for ‘ two-faced ’ and thinking that it might well be a suitable epithet for Rodney Shergold . |
| 28 | Could his same notion of ‘ agitational contemporaneity ’ work for Armchair Theatre as it had worked for North American TV drama ? |
| 29 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
| 30 | How could his beautiful champagne based sauce be indicted for murder ? |