Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Material which starts out at regional may also go on to be used on the national networks . |
| 2 | It is an extract from Act no. 18 of the parliament of 1848 and reads : ‘ Censorship having been abolished forever , freedom of the press re-established , each may freely convey and express his thoughts through the press . ’ |
| 3 | Individuals within each may well diverge from the norm . |
| 4 | Which of the four common jobs in 1980 may almost have disappeared by 1990 or at least by the year 2000 ? |
| 5 | So far , this war is more popular than were those in Korea , Suez or the Falklands at the outset — though that may simply reflect the fact that casualties have so far been so light . |
| 6 | That may well mean that waste disposal should cost more than it has done in the past . |
| 7 | And yet there is something about him , a crude glint or an unexpected flicker in a cave , that may well betray genius . |
| 8 | Well I think I understand that answer to be an affirmative , that if this aircraft is capable of replacing , if you like , the suite of aircraft we 've been discussing , then er that may well result in orders for more than two hundred fifty . |
| 9 | That may well involve the giving of ‘ hearsay evidence . ’ |
| 10 | Corals have promoted last year 's winner The Fellow to 5–4 for Kempton , although that may well change again today after the Hennessy . |
| 11 | If the buyer indicates that he will nevertheless accept delivery in spite of the breach of condition , that may well amount to waiver ( see Rickards v. Oppenheim , paragraph 7–05 above ) . |
| 12 | Yes , yeah all that all that part was okay erm but from the point of view of the script th th that we 'd asked you to learn last night y you did n't do that now that may well work for you , the way you 're actually doing it , but from a training point of view we , we 're trying to look that you 're actually following the , the script there . |
| 13 | trial of quinine and that may well help . |
| 14 | But that may well come too late for Donald Johns . |
| 15 | However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake . |
| 16 | But on the contrary , this world of ‘ it was rumoured ’ and ‘ that may well have been so ’ followed at once by ‘ it is more likely that nothing of the sort happened ’ — again in the opening paragraphs — is as exhilarating as the challenge of life 's opacities to a healthy curiosity . |
| 17 | ‘ If you mean he liked men as well as women , I think that may well have been true , ’ said Mrs Baggley robustly . |
| 18 | But there has that happened since that may well have changed all . ’ |
| 19 | As for the certificate system whereby a parish acknowledged its responsibility to relieve holders who became chargeable while working in other parishes , that may well have helped industrial employers for they received the labour while the risk of having to relieve in cases of unemployment or sickness was underwritten by the parish of settlement . |
| 20 | That may well put them at risk , but then the government does n't asses such things on the grounds of the impact on charity workers |
| 21 | That may well assist clients in that sort of case . |
| 22 | And that may well entail during the discussion on D an evaluation around York to decide which maybe the appropriate sectors of of app which is the appropriate host authority . |
| 23 | ‘ Brochures can only act as a taster , that may also turn you off , ’ said . |
| 24 | That may soon change . |
| 25 | That may even have been an underestimate since the count was made mainly in the dry , lowland areas whereas numbers of elephants may still have existed in undeveloped parts of the central mountain massif . |
| 26 | Rightly : arson attacks on mosques in Surrey and West Yorkshire suggest something like that may already have begun . |
| 27 | That may still accrue to one of the main operators already mentioned . |
| 28 | Very few readers will notice this discrepancy , but all are flicked and jabbed at and irritated — those circling insects — by contradiction , by undetermination followed by overdetermination of reasons , by the narrator 's fuss over details which do n't matter , his youthful sententiousness about women ( ‘ the depths of the female heart ’ ) and other irrelevancies , his moralizing , his way of wantonly bleeding a robust narrative with ‘ However , that may only have seemed so ’ , his ‘ I have already described ’ when he has n't , his promises to explain later which are n't kept when the reader does n't want explanation anyhow , he wants the story . |
| 29 | That philosophy requires tests that have not been done before in the US , and that may never have been done but for the consortium 's help . |
| 30 | In view of the disadvantage which being in care all too often represents , that may sometimes mean making a special effort to ensure the quality of education given to children in care . |