Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some may also say all that 's a touch pretentious , Jools , but this is Channel 4 . |
| 2 | A persistent and well-argued case has to be answered and this may eventually have some influence on a minister . |
| 3 | This may also include some ‘ fuzzy-matching ’ ( nearest matches ) of the lexicon on partial information . |
| 4 | If the social worker is clear about the level of ongoing responsibility for the situation , wanting feed back about how arrangements worked out , this may well make all the difference to the success of the planning . |
| 5 | But while this may well provide some help , it will not produce answers . |
| 6 | Even this may still leave some hidden agendas lurking beneath the surface . |
| 7 | Throwing money at the problem , however , is not the answer ; this may only create more difficulties for the environment . |
| 8 | Prosecutions for abortion doubled between 1900 and 1910 and doubled again during the next twenty years , but this may merely indicate more vigilance on the part of the authorities rather than increasing incidence . |
| 9 | This should certainly include some detailed attention to how mathematics might be used to expose the racist , sexist and class-ridden nature of the society in which we live . |
| 10 | A person claiming to have dispossessed another must similarly fulfil both these requirements . |
| 11 | Some might even like all three ! ’ |
| 12 | This view has had an influential impact on psychology , and although some might now consider such ideas outmoded , they continue to have an enduring effect on public perceptions of old age . |
| 13 | Seeking to push through this terrified and bewailing throng and their attackers , making for that rear door , he recognised that this might well ruin all . |
| 14 | This could well provide many of the solutions . |
| 15 | This could either indicate that online services are failing to be useful , which is doubtful given the significant use that planners make of them , or that the online services have not lived up to the planners ' expectations . |
| 16 | Increased public awareness of the dangers of exceeding the recommended dose of paracetamol might help , although this could paradoxically encourage more people to take an overdose . |
| 17 | This could seriously weaken several clubs — including Llanelli , who will almost certainly lose Scott Quinnell and the promising backs Boobyer and Proctor . |
| 18 | A lit little write up through through pub this would surely bring more people in if they knew what was . |
| 19 | Isabel felt a great calm , a satisfaction , for all this would surely go some way towards cancelling out the effects of her sister Faith 's thoughtlessness . |
| 20 | This would also give each Park its own authority , independent of local councils ( thereby extending a system applying presently in the Lakes and the Peak ) . |
| 21 | Answer guide : This would normally include some of the parts of the answer to question 4 above in terms of internal resources . |
| 22 | This would clearly imply some involvement by the Dublin government in the internal affairs of Northern Ireland for the very first time . |
| 23 | This would greatly assist any manual integration that may be necessary and improve the readability and accessibility of the New OED . |
| 24 | This would certainly deter many parents from proceeding with a second child . |
| 25 | It could even all be molten if Mercury possesses a powerful source of internal heating , and this would certainly remove some of the mystery surrounding the dipole field 's origin . |
| 26 | The variations are so wide that it would contravene both the principle of fair labelling ( see Chapter 3.3 ( 1 ) ) and the principle of maximum certainty ( see Chapter 3.3 ( i ) ) if there were just a single offence of non-fatal harm and a single offence of sexual assault : this would often leave little to be decided at the trial and would transfer the effective decision to the sentencing stage . |
| 27 | Even if British Rail could increase its present share of the cross-Channel freight market to 25% ( a highly unlikely prospect ) this would still leave some 60m tonnes travelling by road in 1993 , and 90m tonnes in 2003 , on the basis of Eurotunnel 's most conservative forecasts . |
| 28 | It was recognized that this would inevitably deprive many parts of Britain , especially Wales and Scotland , of passenger services altogether ( Aldcroft 1968 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ This will particularly help those chronically ill patients who have to travel out of their home districts to specialist treatment centres . ’ |
| 30 | This will immediately highlight any inadequacies in the assumptions underlying the profit and loss budget . |