Example sentences of "you [modal v] [be] forgive for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His self-deprecating prose — ‘ You may be forgiven for thinking I only like the architecture of the past ’ — is reinforced by videos broadcasting extracts from the television film . |
| 2 | You might be forgiven for thinking that the absorption of a stimulant would make you better able to function mentally — but in fact this is far from the truth . |
| 3 | Given all of the above , you might be forgiven for thinking that tennis and fitness are somewhat secondary to the social aspects of the club . |
| 4 | At the moment the opening screen looks a little blank and you might be forgiven for wondering what comes next . |
| 5 | You might be forgiven for thinking that I see an ideal speaker-hearer as someone who relies on everyone else to complete his conversational turns , never finishes a sentence , speaks very quickly and often with his mouth full , never answers questions , always repeats himself , says nothing without hedging , and invariably forgets what he wants to say — but who survives , if only by ending his utterance with a triumphant whatchamacallit . |
| 6 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Meany 's camera equipment probably went ‘ crunch ’ on this one . |
| 7 | When the 15 men from no fewer than eight countries run out in front of a packed house for the 111th Bowring Varsity match at Twickenham today ( tues ) you 'd be forgiven for thinking you were watching some sort of world invitation XV taking on Cambridge . |
| 8 | You 'd be forgiven for doing a double take . |
| 9 | YOU 'D be forgiven for thinking that LES AMANTS DU PONT NEUF ( Cert 18 ; W.E. ) — translated it means ‘ Lovers on the Pont Neuf ’ — would be all hearts and flowers . |
| 10 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Windows 3.1 is the biggest selling application of all time , with unit sales of around a million a month . |
| 11 | He wrote : ‘ To judge by a lot of the stuff written about bands like U2 , you 'd be forgiven for thinking that rock starts are the new Messiahs . |
| 12 | IME happens to be the Estonian word for ‘ miracle ’ — exactly what is required , you could be forgiven for feeling , if today 's designs are to become reality . |
| 13 | Wander around the centre , and you could be forgiven for thinking that the whole of Leeds was built in Victorian days . |
| 14 | You could be forgiven for remembering John Gould as a brilliant painter of birds — that 's exactly what he would have wanted . |
| 15 | For readers already familiar with the transmogrification of Sheffield from the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire to something altogether more ‘ pragmatic ’ , you could be forgiven for believing that the drama unfolding around the boardroom table was just one more step along this route , with committed socialists playing the stock market with the best of them . |
| 16 | You could be forgiven for thinking that a book entitled The Mind of God was a work of theology , but you would be wrong . |
| 17 | Menaggio is a super lakeside resort that feels so untouristy that you could be forgiven for thinking it was just a typical Italian village . |
| 18 | When you wheel your trolley around the supermarket , you could be forgiven for thinking that our basic foods have n't changed for years . |
| 19 | In their farm kitchens and workshops you could be forgiven for thinking that time has stood still for 150 years . |
| 20 | YOU COULD be forgiven for not having heard of the Treaty of TIatelolco . |
| 21 | Boogie 's descriptions of the sounds are very accurate , too ; the ‘ British ’ settings really are very good indeed , and on occasion you could be forgiven for thinking you were indeed playing through a Bletchley-built stack . |
| 22 | If you believe in cycle theories , you could be forgiven for thinking a big one is due about now : the last big quakes have occurred in 1633 , 1703 , 1782 , 1853 and 1923 . |
| 23 | ‘ From the outside , you could be forgiven for thinking this whole episode will become very messy . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ From the outside , you could be forgiven for thinking this whole episode will become very messy . ’ |
| 25 | Ten years later , and you could be forgiven for thinking you 'd stumbled into Liberace 's Grotto . |
| 26 | He was just non compos mentis most of the time and there were times when you could be forgiven for forgetting that he was a woefully sick man . |
| 27 | Donard is the highest mountain in all of Ulster , and you could be forgiven for believing it to be the highest in the world when viewed from Newcastle . |
| 28 | YOU could be forgiven for thinking that pop star Yazz is off to study . |
| 29 | So when politicians and farmers tell us there 's absolutely no risk , you could be forgiven for wanting to make up your own mind — especially if you 've got children . |
| 30 | You could be forgiven for thinking this might present Olivetti with a conflict of interest but the company sees it differently . |