Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 2 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 3 | Yet one must also beware of the sort of patronising attitude nicely expressed in the film of The Go-Between , when the silly sprig of the Big House observes , after an exchange with the lusty Alan Bates , ‘ I think I put him at his ease , do n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | As things are , the army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and of all those for whom society has no use . ’ |
| 5 | When a puppy is settled in the home with you it will soon indicate its willingness to play even though you may not approve of the choice of toy . |
| 6 | ‘ I may not approve of the theology , ’ Laura perused a Caravaggio , which pictured Elvis as one of the three kings offering gifts to the infant Jesus ; Elvis was offering a tiny guitar , ‘ but the quality , the sheer magnificence . |
| 7 | ‘ Let's not speak of the other night , shall we ? ’ she said coolly . |
| 8 | ‘ We may thus think of the subordination of women as the result of three different kinds of victimisation. 1 . |
| 9 | He could only think of the confessional 's stock-in-trade : ‘ Did you find pleasure in it , Luke ? ’ |
| 10 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 11 | But he could not complain of the unsuitability of the friendship between his wife and Isobel , and at times it was extremely useful . |
| 12 | If there were , for instance , a conceptual link between mental state and behaviour such that we could not conceive of the behaviour being present without the ( or some ) mental state , the argument from analogy would be unnecessary . |
| 13 | Carolan could hardly approve of the Ingard empire , and of her father 's involvement in it . |
| 14 | Abraham de Wicquefort , when in 1681 he published the best-known and most widely read work on diplomacy produced anywhere in early modern Europe , could still speak of the formal witnessing of a royal oath to keep a treaty of peace or alliance as one of the obvious reasons for the sending of an extraordinary ambassador . |
| 15 | When I think of my previous existence — of all I thought I could reasonably expect of the rest of my life , an allowed place at the extreme corner of someone 's drawing-room carpet , a Servant 's garret or no better , I give thanks for every little thing , which is unspeakably dear to me . |
| 16 | Utility furniture , I could n't think of the word |
| 17 | Could n't think of the word ! |
| 18 | One could well say of the event horizon what the poet Dante said of the entrance to Hell : " All hope abandon , ye who enter here . " |
| 19 | Classification by audience age has proved an acceptable limitation to impose on a cinema audience , and may also warn of the type of experience on offer . |
| 20 | Notwithstanding the fact that Dirks was found not guilty , the tests laid down in the case are of great significance : a tipper 's liability is contingent upon the purpose of his action ; while a tippee 's liability is limited to those situations where he knows or ought reasonably to know of the insider 's breach of duty . |
| 21 | She dare n't think of the future . |
| 22 | Such exploration may even dispose of the attraction ; this is in any case to be hoped for , if one thinks on these lines , as resolution of the transference/counter transference situation of which psychoanalysis and other therapies take account . |
| 23 | — senses can not always be derived by affix-stripping , e.g. ’ conductivity ’ derives from ’ conduct ’ , but corresponds only to the electrical sense ( one would not talk of the ’ conductivity ’ of an orchestra ) ; |
| 24 | She would not think of the pitiful remains in the corner . |
| 25 | But for the moment she resolved that she would not think of the loathsome interview again until she was in Prague . |
| 26 | No one of any sense had wanted the Young Frog to be given a command in the Duke 's army , but the Old Frog would not hear of the Netherlands joining the coalition unless his son held high command , and thus the politicians in London had forced the Duke of Wellington to concede . |
| 27 | In Dawson it was held that a reasonable person robbing a petrol station would not know of the attendant 's bad heart . |
| 28 | All she could do was to keep vigilant , and to hope against hope that Matthew would soon tire of the old man , or that the old man would soon tire of deliberately using the boy in order to antagonise her . |
| 29 | Would any remains of the wretch even reach the bubbling molten magma at the bottom ? |
| 30 | Sometimes , though , the boy would now talk of the past . |