Example sentences of "is [conj] you [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the thing is once you 'd fit you could stay there . |
| 2 | The reason for writing in pencil is that you may change the order . |
| 3 | The general answer is that you may copy a sound cassette or a video tape or disc for private use , but if it is copied again and again for commercial gain it is a clear breach of copyright and could lead to legal action . |
| 4 | The promise of the Weaving Mother is that you may cast off your threads when the pattern is complete , and begin again . |
| 5 | One reason for confusion is that you may have tackled something too difficult , like skipping a step . |
| 6 | Another point to bear in mind when you are taking a camcorder away with you on holiday is that you may wish to do check replays of your recordings on a colour set as you go along . |
| 7 | Another reason for dubbing new audio is that you may wish to edit out jump-cuts in the sound at some of the picture-edits . |
| 8 | Part of the mutual learning process is that you may find that apparently sensible objectives need altering in the light of critical questioning by alert subordinates . |
| 9 | The danger is that you may become so overworked that these stopgaps become a permanent feature of your farm , causing you even more work and worry . |
| 10 | However , the longer you are infected and the weaker your immune system becomes , the more likely it is that you may become ill . |
| 11 | The fact is that you may need something to help you cope , sleep and carry on with your life . |
| 12 | MORRIS L.J. : It seems to me , therefore , that the father was saying , in effect : Irrespective of what may be the strict legal position , what I am asking is that you shall prove that the child will be well looked after and happy , and also that you must agree that the child is to be allowed to decide for herself whether or not she wishes to come and live with you . |
| 13 | One fear about saying ‘ No ’ is that you might hurt the other person . |
| 14 | Er , what I would like to propose the erm a a that resolution two of course , was put down at the time it had to be put down er , and is clearly going to be affected by , that it happened at the th the financial services in March and what I have suggested is that you might prefer this be a a a second resolution it is or and turn to the to add on the end of that resolution thus urging local churches to through their consultations with district treasurers and finance committee to increase their contributions to the Ministry of Mission Fund in nineteen ninety three in such a way that provincial commi , commitment may be increased by at least five percent over the nineteen ninety two . |
| 15 | Their Inasia Shampoo Bars cost £2.25 and the only snag is that you might get muddled on the side of the bath and mix them up with the soap . |
| 16 | Erm , the idea is that letters are uniquely sep specified by different combinations of features , but certain letters would share more features than others So the idea is that you might consider that the letter X is made up of two features line going that way , whoops , yeah , and a line going that way , which when they 're viewed together make the letter X. The letter Y is made up of a line going that way and a line going that way . |
| 17 | A drawback is that you might find many different professionals gradually becoming involved with you and your family , which can be confusing . |
| 18 | The likelihood is that you 'll go back to your old ways so you 'll have achieved nothing . |
| 19 | Right One of the things that er we try to pass on is that you 'll pick up a lot of information which may not be relevant to you but may be relevant to members of your family or friends . |
| 20 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 21 | What will happen in fact is that you 'll have a start date for your system , which was basically when N1 was , and what they will be looking for is that everything from that date forward is complying right so that a job that started before then , they wo n't look for the initial part of that job to comply right as of that date onwards they will look for it to comply . |
| 22 | Now the important thing about this document is that you 'll receive it on the day the first day of your assignment . |
| 23 | The more features that 're fired , the more likely it is that you 'll get an out or the higher the activity level of the cognitive demon and then the more likely that the decision demon will decide that that 's the appropriate character . |
| 24 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 25 | My guess is that you would draw a comparable , but equally misleading , conclusion from similar analysis of the human game of chess where cheating is not possible . |
| 26 | For example , if you read the contents of a bar code on a can of baked beans , the common belief is that you would get something along the lines of ‘ Heinz Baked Beans , 225g , 38p ’ . |
| 27 | The answer is that you would have to slog it out all the way from London to Baghdad . |
| 28 | One of the conventions of research — which we discuss in more detail below , in Chapter 5 — is that you must enable your reader to find again what you have read ( and in any case , it is useful for you to be able to find again what you have read ) . |
| 29 | If there is one moral in the interlacements of the latter it is that you must do your duty regardless of what you think is going to happen . |
| 30 | In most cases the only disadvantage of such divisions is that you must pass through one room to reach the other . |