Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I may want to recognize that just as well as that . |
| 2 | Put in another way the proposal is that a man should seek to know and fully understand the criteria which determine his thoughts and actions . |
| 3 | The designer , aided by the development process must try to ensure that only a small proportion of teachers fall at each fence — a forbidding challenge . |
| 4 | The poor citizen , bewildered by its ever-changing complexities , finds himself the victim of the muddled thinking and uncertain draftsmanship of the legislators who have multiplied words without knowledge , and must try to understand and then live with an Act of which he has suffered great difficulty and delay in obtaining a copy . |
| 5 | And we must continue to improve and better the information that is provided . |
| 6 | She might prefer to accept that rather than face the horror of the idea of her husband , the King of Scotland , being thrown into a pit among commoners . ’ |
| 7 | And listen — if for some reason you want to spend the night with a friend , maybe you 'll want to drink and then you wo n't be able to drive … you know … do n't worry about Lizzy because I 'll be home soon , should anything come up . ’ |
| 8 | You might like to know that apart from COED CYMRU , the summer edition will feature articles on the WTB 's Tourism 2000 review , the Shell Better Britain Campaign , development pressures on the countryside , environmental education , opencast coal , an up-date on Carmel Woods , fresh thinking on forestry , and the effects of transport on the environment . |
| 9 | Of course I 'll have to camp as well |
| 10 | If I 'm to drive you home afterwards we 'll have to leave as soon as we arrive at this rate . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I was n't listening … you 'll have to say that again … ’ |
| 12 | They were only for coaches or they could do to ride as well ? ’ |
| 13 | If Rank seriously thought that his directors could work to order and effectively fill the gap in the release schedules , notwithstanding the audience 's proven affection for US pictures , then he really did know very little about film production . |
| 14 | Knowing what you 'd like to say and actually having the courage to come right out with it are two different things . |
| 15 | Erm yeah I did mention earlier actually there was one or two ways that you could perhaps help me er one was erm I hope , I 'd like to think that obviously my service has been of value to you erm I 'd also like to think that you can perhaps recommend me to people you know er you did actually mention earlier erm was it Peter you work with , was it |
| 16 | But yes I 'm sure you can be a missionary in Harlow and I 'd like to think that maybe I could erm increase that work and maybe have an afternoon a week where I could talk to people about God , but I think there 's not really time in a ten minute surgery slot . |
| 17 | First questio , the question , and I 'd like to comment as well is , erm , what , are there plans for the future of greatly expanding Environment Department , er , and why is it er , and why is it not being put through policy , first . |
| 18 | Now , to be fair , you 'd have to say that only a few of these are going to be wacky enough to go for the fridge compilation album , but which ones ? |
| 19 | Those who could afford to lose or perhaps could not … |
| 20 | CBP100 may correspond to ICR and thereby function as a repressor of the cAMP response in UF9 cells . |
| 21 | So we we may have to pursue that further but there has been some progress after all this time and expenditure of money and and time . |
| 22 | You may wish to say that so many more children could be benefited if the resources were diverted to them instead . |
| 23 | Me mother er and me father they er me mother used to go to picture and then er when the cur and then me me dad did n't like pictures so he used to always meet me mother outside and then they 'd perhaps go and have a little drink together and a walk . |
| 24 | There was a half of the premises , and the casual wards there they , course I tell you they used to have to bath and then they used to have to do chopping wood and sort of work like , like that . |
| 25 | How Brecht would laugh to know that over 60 years after he wrote it , people were still being shocked by the words of third stanza , and like his own creator , Rosa Valleti , refusing to sing them ! |
| 26 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 27 | If the clause is the main unit of encoding then we would expect to find that almost all clauses in the speech corpus Beattie analysed should contain pauses , particularly in initial position . |
| 28 | The director of a haulage company who would like to retire as soon as is practicable and leave much of the management of the firm to his children may take advantage of retirement relief . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the public inquiry commands the attention of large and powerful organisations which would like to disregard or even try to belittle the findings of an inspector 's report if it commented unfavourably on activities for which those organisations had responsibility . |
| 30 | ‘ I would like to help but then the business is not entirely in my hands . |