Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of these are covered in this leaflet as each may affect you personally when deciding whether to take the HIV antibody test . |
| 2 | If your timing is right , Positive ideas of this kind may well give her hope and encouragement , but they should not be introduced too early in the grieving process , or she may regard them almost as an insult to the depth of her sorrow at a time when she is not yet ready to look to the future . |
| 3 | This can be a helpful approach in discussion — someone may regard you as stubborn , whereas you see yourself as determined . |
| 4 | But if the other party does n't use this level of response themselves , they may regard you as insincere or phoney . |
| 5 | It is true that today 's speakers , not knowing the origins of generic he , may regard it as just a feature of grammar . |
| 6 | The object may lend itself equally to the expression of difference , indicating the separate domains to which people or aspects of people belong , and to the expression of unity , connecting otherwise diverse domains . |
| 7 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 8 | But the believer must wait for God 's time of deliverance ; he may think it long in coming — forgetting that God 's time is the best time . ’ |
| 9 | Others may think it digestively more prudent to follow the example of Badger in The Wind in the Willows , sitting down quietly in a commodious armchair for a session with — or maybe under — the newspapers . |
| 10 | Mr Wakerley told the jury : ‘ You may think he soon realised his position was hopeless . ’ |
| 11 | You may think you just nursed me . |
| 12 | This may explain their slightly higher ages in unskilled manual and retail occupations . |
| 13 | Trampling over it may damage it so that it ca n't be used . |
| 14 | Hard thinking and research may aid us individually , and eventually as a species , to counter some of these problems . |
| 15 | Come on , let's make her as comfortable as possible . ’ |
| 16 | I mean it was like years ago I heard things about Down 's children with holes in the heart and why bother to do it , but now everything 's changing — let's make them more normal . |
| 17 | Can not concede that it had been possible and neither will shift in how we communicate and view the place of the Royals in our society and what the are and how those P R shifts a phrase in terms of let's make ourselves more public , let's make ourselves more accessible , have resulted in that because their very their very accessibility is the those kind of radio programmes to happen . |
| 18 | Can not concede that it had been possible and neither will shift in how we communicate and view the place of the Royals in our society and what the are and how those P R shifts a phrase in terms of let's make ourselves more public , let's make ourselves more accessible , have resulted in that because their very their very accessibility is the those kind of radio programmes to happen . |
| 19 | This is now established and we 're pleased with its success ; but let's make it even better . |
| 20 | At last it 's back with us in America , so let's make it fast . |
| 21 | Mm that 's a bit let's make it more awkward . |
| 22 | Certainly erm I do n't know what Norman says , but I would say on the phone to you , Let's make it absolutely clear that this is er in the main a telesales operation . |
| 23 | So let's make it quick , shall we ? ’ |
| 24 | Although you may think you know what you want , sub-consciously you may want something else . |
| 25 | For the hemiplegic patient , it requires extra care , because the patient is likely to be sitting still for much of the day , which in itself may make him more prone to infections , and the risk is magnified if there is any damp or dirty material next to his skin . |
| 26 | Salt concentrations near the surface may make them especially inhospitable to vegetation ; only the soils of damper areas , in which salts are distributed evenly or concentrated at depth , are likely to support plant propagules . |
| 27 | But this , it is claimed , may make them more vulnerable than most to negative emotions when they are shown to be powerless . |
| 28 | We do not deny that some characteristics of prison inmates may make them more or less likely to cause problems — if the prisons predominantly housed old people or nuns rather than young men with past records of anti-social behaviour they would doubtless experience fewer riots . |
| 29 | But , insurers point out , this may make them less able to compete against other financial institutions . |
| 30 | That learned attitude in its turn may make me uncomfortably edgy and aggressive when situations . |