Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her no messages had been sent and suggested that if Uncle was a businessman — I thought it better not to mention that we already knew he was a multi-millionaire businessman — he might naturally tend to be secretive and that he might also be reluctant to broadcast the fact that he had lost his yacht through what might have been his own fault . |
| 2 | Yeah , but if you took the watch off it should stop . |
| 3 | There was then the decision about what should happen to the foods division . |
| 4 | Those are important and worthwhile projects , and we must ask the Government where the money for them will come from , especially if £1.4 billion is gobbled up by the proposals for King 's Cross . |
| 5 | In 1946 a Committee at Stoke began planning a curriculum for what would become the University of Keele . |
| 6 | And I think a contest between us will come off . |
| 7 | As far as the first case is concerned , I take it that part of the process of rational reflection on a set of moral principles and courses of action for myself would involve consulting others ( the experts , if you like ) . |
| 8 | The remedy for one will exacerbate the other . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew if I was n't careful my obsession for her could destroy me . |
| 10 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 11 | Golda Meir replied that ‘ if he was ready and willing to confront us and the world with a fait accompli [ i.e. annexation of Arab Palestine ] — the traditional friendship between us would continue and we would certainly find a common language in arranging matters of interest to both sides . ’ |
| 12 | He refused to believe that physical laws should not make a definite , unambiguous prediction for what would happen . |
| 13 | A second ploy used by buyers is the ‘ sell cheap , the future looks bright ’ technique : ‘ We can not pretend that our offer meets you on price , but the real pay-off for you will come in terms of future sales . ’ |
| 14 | Explaining this popularity is not difficult : Edmund was himself killed by the Danes , and it was perhaps only natural that veneration for him should grow in the area which had formed his kingdom , and seen a great deal of the renewed conflict between Danes and English . |
| 15 | From the start , there was much confusion about who should come out on strike to support the miners . |
| 16 | The child 's greed is obstructing awareness of consequences the facing of which would cause him to refrain ; therefore to let the impulse to refrain prevail over the impulse to eat is a causally necessary condition of obeying the imperative . |
| 17 | She took to drinking more than she should , and most nights she would cry herself to sleep , thinking of what might have been . |
| 18 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he went on in a low voice , ‘ I lie awake at night thinking of what would happen to this place if you should die without issue . ’ |
| 19 | He shifted restlessly on the bed , thinking of what would happen if he should die without issue . |
| 20 | So where , if I 'm putting twelve thousand in for sort of a , a holding fund for , for individuals I might put three thousand into a local society so they can pop down to the Nottingham Building Society for any bits and pieces , and th the , the bulk of it can go into a postal account to , with a better rate . |
| 21 | Overnight the full force of what might have happened had finally come home to Elise , and she 'd spent most of the day clucking round her young sister like a hen with one chick . |
| 22 | Those who have not tried to sell — and particularly sell in a highly competitive market where there are very large contracts , the possession or loss of which can have a fatal effect on one 's whole business — do not know how testing it is of courage and nerve . |
| 23 | Charles Kingsley , writing of the final destruction of the Fens , was perhaps the first to regret the loss of what must have been one of the finest natural systems in Europe . |
| 24 | For instance , English coins of the thirteenth century were still available in the fifteenth , so the loss of one could have taken place at any time during its three centuries of circulation . |
| 25 | It undertook to pass a law by Dec. 31 ensuring that Ukrainian conscripts served only on Ukrainian soil ; called for formation of a parliamentary commission to discuss nationalizing Communist Party assets ; asserted that the Ukraine would not enter into a new union treaty before a new constitution creating a sovereign Ukraine was drafted ; and called a referendum in 1991 " on confidence in the Ukrainian President " , the result of which would determine whether to hold fresh elections by the end of the year . |
| 26 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 27 | I 'm here to tell you that if Alan is right and big Arnie ( pictured left ) did the body beautiful business behind the Co that night , anyone who happened to take a photograph of him should send it in to me pronto . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've read the programme of what will happen , and it sounds good . |
| 29 | It was a demonstration of what would happen if Franco were not there to impose order . |
| 30 | As for the first , it should be remembered that for an Epicurean the worst pain is the groundless fear of what may happen after death , and that excessive unnatural desires are painful too . |