Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I suppose , if somebody 's going around with an opinion pole , and they ask you about a certain , what you think about a certain thing , that , that , presume what their asking about , may affect everybody in different way |
| 2 | The seeds are all the external influences that tend to throw us out of balance and they may affect us on any level of our being ; on the physical level it may be something simple like being exposed to a cold wind , getting soaked in the rain or even some form of trauma . |
| 3 | Asthma , heart conditions , diabetes or epilepsy may expose you to special risks with watersports in the heat . |
| 4 | Finally , the information found may lend itself to various forms of presentation , ranging from fact sheets to some kind of argument for or against various issues . |
| 5 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
| 6 | If her personality tends to be an obsessive one — if she is excessively devoted to tidiness and perfect order in every part of her life and home , a great maker of ‘ lists ’ for everything and a habitual ‘ double-checker ’ in all her activities — you may find that although she is grieving deeply , she may throw herself with remarkable zeal into the business of ‘ tidying up ’ her husband 's financial affairs and concentrating even more strongly on getting everything in the house cleaned and polished ; for this is the method used by most people who are inclined to be obsessional , to control their anxiety . |
| 7 | Erm , yeah , let's make it at three . |
| 8 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) Where a lessor is proceeding , by action or otherwise , to enforce such a right of re-entry or forfeiture , the lessee may , in the lessor 's action , if any , or in any action brought by himself , apply to the court for relief , and the court may grant or refuse relief , as the court , having regard to the proceedings and conduct of the parties under the foregoing provisions of this section , and to all the other circumstances , thinks fit ; and in case of relief may grant it on such terms , if any , as to costs , expenses , damages , compensation , penalty , or otherwise , including the granting of an injunction to restrain any like breach in the future , as the court , in the circumstances of each case , thinks fit . |
| 10 | A person may buy something in good faith , but may find out afterwards that the seller had no title to it , perhaps because the seller or somebody else stole it . |
| 11 | I 've a feeling we may need them before this is over . ’ |
| 12 | You may suit yourself on that one ! |
| 13 | At present hospitals and community services often use the translation services of a relative who is bilingual , or of a kitchen porter or nurse who may know nothing of mental health problems , or of anyone in the vicinity who happens to speak the language . |
| 14 | Those journalists may know something about environmental issues , but if they understand transport issues , they were jolly well doing their best to conceal the fact . |
| 15 | PAMELA : Sir , perhaps I should answer you by another question and that would not become me . |
| 16 | JAMES EDE , chief display assistant , East Filton : ‘ We should make something of all the hype around the release of the Jurassic Park film and have dinosaur shaped foods . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We should make it in three or four days , if we 're lucky , if we leave tomorrow , ’ Travis finished , recalling her to the here and now with a start . |
| 18 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 19 | In The Cloud of Unknowing he did not present the whole complexity of the Greek mystic 's vision , but dwelt upon his central belief that God is ultimately and essentially incomprehensible to the human mind and that if we want to ‘ know ’ God in this life , we must divest ourselves of all our ideas about the reality that we call ‘ God ’ . |
| 20 | Another problem with doing these talks is working out at what level I should pitch them for different age groups . |
| 21 | You may say also that I think it well that the musters of the northern counties should prepare themselves for possible action against the Scots at the same date , and those along the south coast should be ready to resist any assault by sea from my enemies in Europe . |
| 22 | Reverting to my opening discussion of the evolution of the ego and superego , we can readily see the importance of these stages and we can understand why it is that the sexual drive should lend itself to such apparently irrelevant associations as the oral and anal zones . |
| 23 | An example of this occurred in early February when Foreign Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) , meeting in Brussels , agreed that the support given to Iraq by the PLO should disqualify it from further high-level contacts . |
| 24 | ‘ What the hell did you expect , that I should treat you as some kind of equal ? |
| 25 | However , in order for the abdominals to grow you must treat them like any other muscle group , and work them hard for 8 to 12 reps using 3 to 4 sets . |
| 26 | Examples are the splitting up of AT&T in the US , referred to above , the more stringent conditions put on the BA/BCal merger by the EC authorities , and the MMC recommendation that the major UK brewers should divest themselves of most of their public houses ( Supply of Beer , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | I think you must prefer everything in that room . |
| 28 | I do n't suffer from ex-hatred myself , assuming that my partner must prefer me to any of her previous lovers or else she would be with one of them . |
| 29 | That 's why I 'm saying to everyone that we should build it with two lanes and no more and so restricting the chance of it ever being a motorway . |
| 30 | You should acquaint yourself with any material that is provided about the authority . |