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Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Actually seeing her physically pregnant may increase this response , and so when she has had her baby and gone back to her usual size , it is easier to relate to her as a daughter again .
2	Rather than respond defensively Labour should see this as an opportunity to break out of the strait-jacket politics of the Thatcher era .
3	MAS should inform potential purchasers selected to proceed to the next phase and arrange meetings and site visits .
4	Whilst the pure search work may be sub-contracted to other specialist departments , MAS should have principal responsibility for monitoring the progress of the search process ( particularly ensuring that time is not being spent researching targets outside the purchaser 's price range ) and drawing together all the findings .
5	MAS should provide clear advice on alternative courses of action .
6	In deciding whether MAS should attend such a meeting , it will be important to consider whether our presence may hinder the achievement of objective ( a ) .
7	It also made respectable the unfamiliar doctrine of ‘ positive discrimination ’ — going beyond weak doctrines of equality ( perceived as the removal of artificial obstacles ) , to strong doctrines ( based on the conviction that the socially disadvantaged should receive more than , not the same as , their more fortunate contemporaries ) .
8	They were not always fair in their criticism : few today would agree with the New Statesman reviewer who wrote of The Lady Vanishes that ‘ the English should leave amorous wisecracking to the nation which invented and alone understands that art . ’
9	That 's all I want to say on the principle erm of the criteria , as far as the detailed content erm er is concerned I suspect we could talk all day about whether social should replace affordable in one of the criteria , or whether the full stop is in the right place er in another one .
10	We thought this might appeal to MKM readers , who often write in with requests and anyone interested should send four first class stamps towards expenses to the Guild Librarian for more details .
11	Anyone interested should contact Norman on Belfast 640529 .
12	Nothing seemed to be moving on the road itself , though Sharpe supposed the French must have some skirmishers concealed in the fields of long rye .
13	In view of the agonizing difficulties faced by so many elderly people on very low incomes , is there any way this house , this week , can ask the minister to make a statement whether the cold weather payments could be made and all the red tape regulations removed because those payments are not made unless there are seven days of freezing weather and it does seem to me , the welfare of your old should have first priority .
14	I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll ,
15	I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll ,
16	Reasons for individual entertaining might include any of the following :
17	The English could use these at will , and looked to do so later ; the Scots could not approach them without coming into close range of archery they had learned to respect .
18	Only the crazy British could send such a lovely young woman on such a wild goose chase , and probably to her death .
19	Now you you told me er er before about this er the unemployed used to gather weekly in in in the in the public hall , what
20	The metric used to study this is simply the proportion of propositions in recall which are one-item propositions : fig. 10.6 shows the results .
21	It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court .
22	Under the terms of the truce and the modifications agreed to it on 27 June , the siege of Quimperlé would be lifted , Duke John would withdraw his army from Brittany , Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte would be handed over to papal mediators who would deliver it to the King of France when the truce expired , and the English would receive 40,000 francs in compensation .
23	It seems that problems of proof loom large here : there is a fear that the unscrupulous would manipulate any law permitting ‘ mercy killings ’ , and the argument is presumably that this would put at risk more unwilling parties than a law allowing euthanasia would benefit willing parties .
24	The British pointedly refused to endorse the two major conditions that de Gaulle placed on an armistice with the local authorities : an opportunity for Free France to administer the mandated territories and recruit soldiers and civilians from them ; and a guarantee that the British would respect all of France 's rights in the region .
25	Much more remarkable , however , were Gracey 's comments when it became obvious that his earlier hopes — ‘ If only the French would promise progressive sovereignty … say two or three years and the Annamites would be equally ready to meet them … ’ ( an almost exact parallel , so he thought , with Burma ) — stood little chance of fulfilment .
26	For Edward , the solution was to hold Aquitaine in full sovereignty ; but the French would concede this only in the face of overwhelming defeat , and no settlement based on such a concession could endure .
27	Whether old people in societies which revere the wisdom and expertise of the very old would welcome advanced age , I do not know .
28	‘ The English will have larger cannon than these merchanters carry , and could sink them before they could get within range .
29	Erm you probably all know Murphy 's law that what can go wrong will go wrong , when I looked at the Oil Service Industry in last year , I rather think that Murphy was a bit of an optimist myself .
30	Such knowledge has to be coupled with further instinctive knowledge that the perpetration of acts known to be wrong will bring some kind of retribution .