Example sentences of "[modal v] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So may the world your flights forget , And God forgive , and Willy pardon . |
| 2 | So may the 1990 tax act . |
| 3 | O may the memory of Charlie 's love and his earnest desire that you shall grow up an earnest Christian lead you to … throw your whole soul into the service of Christ … ‘ |
| 4 | Chinese growers have selected what may the world 's longest and fastest growing luffa . |
| 5 | Very belatedly the Foreign Secretary was forced to admit that the frogman seen by the Russians had been Crabb and , as a result , on 1O May the subject was aired in parliament . |
| 6 | In ‘ Mira 's Will ’ , she gives the peculiar instruction : ‘ Six comick Poets may the Corse surround , / And all Free-holders , if they can be found … |
| 7 | The curse is humorous but grim : as the landscape has been emptied so may the house be abandoned . |
| 8 | The seminal vesicles can become infected and inflamed , as may the epididymis and testis . |
| 9 | When may the police arrest a suspected citizen ? |
| 10 | This power is still available to the police today and three questions arise in relation to it : first , what is the meaning of breach of the peace ? ; secondly , when may the police act ? ; and thirdly , what may they do ? |
| 11 | Under what circumstances may the doctors switch off the ventilator ? |
| 12 | Not only may the manager have insufficient personal skills to do everything , but also far too little time . |
| 13 | What jobs may the people in services do ? |
| 14 | How may the tourists boost the incomes and employment of people in remote places ? |
| 15 | What other advantages may the managers have seen for a car assembly industry near Liverpool ? |
| 16 | How may the use of land for reservoirs sometimes help and sometimes hinder the needs of townsfolk ? |
| 17 | Not only may the boundaries of competence vary in distribution and number , they also vary in quality . |
| 18 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 19 | If a defending player has a loose lace and this touches the ball , may the attacking side drop for goal ? |
| 20 | Not only may the strength of the light vary , perhaps from full sunshine to overcast , but the colour of the light can also change . |
| 21 | ‘ Brothers have been brothers ’ bane — and may the nephew be sure of the uncle ? |
| 22 | And then a bit later , her poor father , may the Lord have mercy on him , went out one evening with his wits scattered and fell over the cliff into the quarry . ’ |
| 23 | The existing copyright notice shall remain and in no circumstances may the Distributor change , add , take away or otherwise tamper with the videos unless by prior negotiation and written agreement . |
| 24 | The existing copyright notice shall remain and in no circumstances may the Distributor change , add , take away or otherwise tamper with the videos unless by prior negotiation and written agreement . |
| 25 | ‘ What task may the Douglas ask of me , Dunbar and March ? |
| 26 | Keep visualising the future , and may the power of influence be with you … |
| 27 | Not only may the recogniser be able to be lexically-driven , but other levels of information ( e.g. syntax and semantics ) should also be able to direct the pattern recognition . |
| 28 | In either case , the tail may be held very low , as may the head . |
| 29 | So , too , may the political wrangling in Spain . |
| 30 | For example , may the two schools of thought be most usefully seen as integral to broad political perspectives which propose contrasting views of the state , social work as a part of state intervention , social institutions , and the relations between socioeconomic groups ? |