Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as he knows , Beryl may not even exist , except as an excuse for Brian Everthorpe 's delinquencies . |
| 2 | DUTCH striker Marco van Basten may never fully recover from injury to play soccer again according to a doctor who operated on the star 's injured right ankle . |
| 3 | Mo may just not care what gets said about the Company — it 's all the new team now — as long as he is n't caught saying it himself And if he gas blamed for some dirty work that got started fifteen years ago — and I doubt he was directly responsible ; he was too senior then — how much does it hurt him now ? |
| 4 | Today she was here , lost in the beauty of the music of love , and Dr Rafaelo might well not have existed . |
| 5 | Sometimes the public distancing of Romania from its Warsaw Pact allies , especially Big Brother in Moscow , was done in a quite insulting fashion : Ceauşescu could even implicitly put the Kremlin in the same category as the White House : ‘ The small and medium-sized states refuse to play the role of pawn in the service of the interests of big imperialist powers any longer . ’ |
| 6 | The United States could not properly insist on " a blank check " . |
| 7 | They were clumsy , hesitant lies , yet Simon had believed them : it did not occur to him that someone as stupid as Marie could ever successfully deceive him . |
| 8 | Therese could n't possibly manage it . ’ |
| 9 | The PLO could no longer remain out of the war . |
| 10 | Whilst Necromunda could not conceivably have changed , it would nevertheless seem as alien as any of the worlds that they might visit in the interim . |
| 11 | And that meant that Downes could not possibly have killed Kemp before that time , and Downes was going to make absolutely certain — as he did — that he was never out of sight or out of touch with his group — except for the odd , brief visit to the loo — at any time that afternoon or early evening . |
| 12 | And suddenly Morse knew where the body had been launched into the river and into eternity ; knew , too , that if Lucy Downes could so quickly arouse the rather sluggish libido of a Lewis , then it was hardly difficult to guess her effect upon the lively carnality of a Kemp . |
| 13 | It is , moreover , difficult to see how Rifat Efendi could so badly misread Mecdi , whom he virtually copies . |
| 14 | She and Johnny could not simply pick up where they had left off . |
| 15 | You get the impression that Roberts could quite happily slag off most of his fellow ufologists in this way . |
| 16 | Yet Shiona could not quite drive his warning from her mind and the look of cold dislike that had accompanied it . |
| 17 | He turned and said something that Elisa could not quite catch to a young girl , unnoticed before , who had stationed herself by the door . |
| 18 | Did you know that Cecil Beaton could n't even load his own camera ? |
| 19 | The SSA would not normally condone betting , but for a good cause head office staff are positively encouraged to have a flutter by SSA chairman On February 5 around 8O people put down their stakes for four horse and four videoed greyhound races . |
| 20 | Had Immelmann 's death not intervened , the appearance of Boelcke 's ‘ Flying Circus ’ at Verdun would almost certainly have spelled disaster for the individualist French flyers . |
| 21 | A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken . |
| 22 | American officials assured Turkey during the Gulf war that the United States would not even contact the Kurdish opposition in Iraq . |
| 23 | They work incredibly long hours with no day of rest for a monthly income which in the United States would not even amount to a basic daily wage . |
| 24 | Had there been a genuine sense of Arabism during the post-war period , Aziz went on , then the Gulf States would not only have cancelled Iraq 's debts , but would also have organized a comprehensive Iraqi reconstruction plan . |
| 25 | However , what such an analysis fails to take into account is that the evidence of wrong-doing that became so public in the United States would almost certainly have never surfaced in the United Kingdom , given the laws of libel and the willingness of the British people to tolerate secrecy in government . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , continuing discontent with the ruling party led commentators to predict that , despite the party 's current gains , the LDP would almost certainly lose seats at the forthcoming election . |
| 27 | Turning to Naas Botha just as he was preparing to kick off the second half , Bishop remarked , ‘ We 're in for a hell of a 40 minutes , Naas ’ — just what sort of hell Botha would rather not have found out … |
| 28 | I 'm sorry I know Andy would n't normally say things like that . |
| 29 | Balliol would undoubtedly soon learn of their presence , however heedfully they hid . |
| 30 | During the afternoon , Mr. Penny would somewhat unsteadily make his way to the trap , get in , flop down and lightly pick up the reins ; the pony knowing what had to be done would start off , quickly breaking into a spanking trot as he made his way along Milford Street . |