Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greece and Turkey will be asked to accept that the border between them must not be changed by force , and to agree to a set of ‘ confidence-building measures ’ — pull-backs from the border , inspectors on the ground , aerial reconnaissance — to help them trust each other . |
| 2 | The fact that ECGD may have instructed them should not be taken as an endorsement of their expertise , official or otherwise . |
| 3 | G. R.Shepherd , the Labour National Agent , wrote to local Labour Parties in March 1939 , warning them against close liaison with the Club : Since groups of the Left Book Club are not entitled to affiliation with constituency parties , joint political activities with them should not be entered into , especially when these are in the direction of a so-called " Popular Front " with any other political party . |
| 4 | As the distinguished chemist , Cornford , said : ‘ The doctrine is based on the theory that nothing should ever be done for the first time . ’ |
| 5 | As a general rule , nothing should ever be put on gold leaf . |
| 6 | My meadow , which I may well be contemplating with pleasure even as you read this , is a delight . |
| 7 | Sub-text : ‘ I have to convey my message , which is more important than yours ( and I may not be listening to you ) . ’ |
| 8 | It 's just possible Mr Deputy Speaker , it 's just possible I may not be selected for all kinds of reasons but if I was selected it might at least give the people of that lovely part of the world the chance of having the referendum they never had over Maastricht because of the shameful way in which the Labour party was not willing to allow the people to have their say on that vital issue . |
| 9 | I have begun to sense that , despite the touching and the ‘ precious boy ’ , I may not be headed for the Dark where the soft , fat spiders watch and wait . |
| 10 | Someone may just be waiting for us to arrive . ’ |
| 11 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |
| 12 | Right , now I must n't be seen to be indicating in any way that er you do n't have to bother with it all , because they too put all out some excellent er booklets , brochures I 've got two thick pads of them which I 'll let you circulate . |
| 13 | ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice . |
| 14 | He added that I must not be intimidated by his and Rozanov 's fluency ; I was really quite good . |
| 15 | God , I do n't know if I should even be talking about it . ’ |
| 16 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 17 | I should n't be looking for confirmation , outside myself , I mean . ’ |
| 18 | So on one of these , I should n't be looking at that one , that 's what threw me cos first of all I did n't know you had n't got any income and then I turned that over and that was the previous policy where you were a veterinary surgeon with eighteen thousand , I thought I 'm sure that 's not right |
| 19 | then it 's a national account , but in terms of the guy not seeing anybody we went to him to sort out what was going on and she must have come away there from with all the sites and said I should n't be dealing with this , it 's a national account , it 's the national account and that 's when I said you must pass it over to then |
| 20 | And then there I was yelling at them , and it was n't anything they did , it 's not their fault what I did , and I feel so guilty towards them , I should n't be shouting at them . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I move quickly so that I should n't be trampled to death . |
| 22 | It was all of three inches long , and as she looked at it , she said , ‘ I should n't be landed with this . |
| 23 | Dr Maxwell had assured me that I should n't be troubled by any more sickness . |
| 24 | Some years later I was at dinner with Brian Huggett and he got up and said , ‘ I should n't be talking to this man because he robbed me of the British Open . |
| 25 | ‘ I should n't be talking to you like this when you 're worried about your sister and I 'm only her friend . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps because I said that even if I returned I should now be shot for desertion . |
| 27 | It was a pleasing thought , that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles . |
| 28 | I might even be sent to prison . |
| 29 | I was terrified that , while he had taken a branch off the piste towards the town , I might now be heading towards Mali , a waterless eight hundred miles away . |
| 30 | I 'll even be fighting on the way out . ’ |