Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sports heroes and pop stars provide images for teenagers , who may imitate them and style themselves upon them . |
| 2 | He may regard them as curious examples of another civilization or occasionally view with incredulity the ways of city people and industrial workers , but he will only regard them with envy when television reinforces the evaluations already implanted personally by friends and kin with whom he identifies . |
| 3 | Any gynaecological illness , even a Caesarian operation , and he may regard her as unfit for sex and therefore useless : and he will go back to Bangladesh and marry again . |
| 4 | We may regard it as sharing with positivism the view that the significant features of a legal system ( that is , its aims and components ) can be adequately understood without reference to the political or economic realities in which the legal systems operates . |
| 5 | It follows that co-operative R&D is likely to raise total R&D spending if participants produce complementary products , and it may lower it if they produce substitute products . |
| 6 | That may be so ; but on the other hand , if the plaintiff 's contention is correct , the solicitor may abstain from delivering his bill for 20 years , and then at the end of that time he may deliver it and sue after the expiration of a month from its delivery . |
| 7 | From the beginning he had dexterity and deadly accuracy , but he is being prepared for prey that also has dexterity and that may damage him if his approach is clumsy . |
| 8 | Captures may damage it and the beads of glue exposed to the air may lose some of their stickiness . |
| 9 | yeah ten for the left and ninety for the right and the reason we talked about this and the way that 's involved in communication is that we said well if there 's a lot more power or a lot more contribution to the design of what we 're doing of a spatial nature and that is how the the audience 's brain work more powerfully in the spatial nature let's present what we have let's design it and then deliver it as close to a spatial nature as we can okay . |
| 10 | The universities may treat them as advisory and act upon them only if they so wish . |
| 11 | A duvet is more practical than sheets , blankets and eiderdown , although the patient may prefer them if they are what he is used to . |
| 12 | But provoking discussion among the trainees of some straightforward opening questions may reassure them that they could cope themselves , at least initially , with Sheila . |
| 13 | Let's unpack it and all have a drink . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What I 'm gon na do is … ’ ( he raises one finger then looks at it suspiciously , as though it may attack him or at worst disagree with him ) ‘ What I 'm gon na — what I 'm planning — ; all things being — ( thirty-second meaningful pause ) ‘ I mean , anything could happen , right ? |
| 15 | If we may further generalize on these projects , we may describe them as setting up models of teaching methods and materials , thus tending to extend and develop user education methods , rather than analysing and criticizing existing methodologies and materials . |
| 16 | I need his counsel , as he may need yours and mine both . |
| 17 | I do n't think we ought to provide it because that just means it gives the wrong impression to the officers I have to say . |
| 18 | In response to this request he gave them the Lord 's Prayer , in which we pray first of all for God Himself , that all may know him and revere Him , that his mile may be extended over all , and that his will , so right and good and loving , may be done on earth , as it is by angels , prophets and saints in heaven . |
| 19 | The rest of this book will not produce more than a flawed account of some of the arguments that have been advanced both concerning the physical and moral nature of God ( because even if a God existed , there is still the question of whether we should worship Him or rebel against Him ) . |
| 20 | Oh I should make it if I were you . |
| 21 | Yer should 'ear 'er when me farvver comes 'ome pissed — sorry , I mean drunk , ’ he corrected himself . |
| 22 | So individualism must regard them as being in some way free from the determining influence of society , and it is this which makes the properties of individuals into a suitable stopping point for explanations . |
| 23 | For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied . |
| 24 | Incidentally I always do this and yet I must reassure you that I 'm not a Saga representative in anyway , I 'm just keen on , on Saga and their facilities . |
| 25 | In the fieldwork situation the anthropologist 's aim must be that his informants should treat him as their pupil and that they should be prepared to teach him their way of life by accepting him as a kinsman , so that , as near as may be , he becomes " one of us " . |
| 26 | There are arguments here , as there are in relation to mistake , that the law should impose a duty on men to consider consent , and therefore should treat them as reckless if they have failed to give any thought to the matter . |
| 27 | Thus the real question seems not to be whether we should detect the disease but how best we should treat it if it is detected . |
| 28 | You should research them as you write up your notes and prepare precise definitions which can be referred to later . |
| 29 | The second question , therefore , is whether we can accept them as history , or whether we must treat them as myth and " demythologize " them , that is , assume that the miracle did not actually occur as a miraculous event , but that some spiritual truth is enshrined in the story in symbolic form . |
| 30 | Such planets can not really be thought of as having a surface , in the sense that the Earth has ; rather , we should regard them as being ‘ all atmosphere ’ . |