Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , chances are you have a serious drinking problem , or may have one in the future . |
| 2 | Someone may grab your collar with both hands in order to head-butt you in the face , or may seize you by the hair to punch you . |
| 3 | Indeed it did , to anybody who remembered or could visual-ise it as a busy dock . |
| 4 | Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again . |
| 5 | That leaves us then with or would leave us with a substantial provision in Greater York . |
| 6 | Children can present data in simple block graphs , pictograms or sets , or can enter it into a computer , using suitable software , to compile their own database . |
| 7 | Given that over 20% of A-level papers are failed , that is reasonable : why gamble two years of lost earnings on studies that may leave you with no certificate at all ? |
| 8 | ‘ He may have some dreadful secret in his past that he wants to confess to you — something that may shake you to the core . ’ |
| 9 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 10 | In examining these conflicts and changes the particular aims of the researchers are to : elucidate the changes that occurred in the UK defence science and technology system in the 1980 's and to analyse their dynamics and interactions ; ii identify and examine the assumptions about the future being made by firms and governments to guide their current decision-making in this area ; iii consider whether clear and stable structural trends are emerging , and the factors that may influence them in the 1990's , including the transition to a single European market ; iv establish a better framework for assessing contemporary developments in defence technology policy and their consequences for other areas of science and technology policy . |
| 11 | There was not a soul in sight as Theda began resolutely to trudge down the street , looking for a lane that might lead her off the main road , which , being only of packed dirt , was already a hasty-pudding of mud which churned under her mercifully booted feet . |
| 12 | I had the radio on low , in case they interrupted the broadcast with any bulletins that might lead me to the new Night Mayor . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll trade you your ‘ binos ’ for information that might lead me to the whereabouts of Dr Charity Marlowe . ’ |
| 14 | Many people start their marriages wondering how many affairs their partner has already had , and wondering if they can compete with the possibilities that might threaten them in the future . |
| 15 | She was becoming less interested in any tittle-tattle he might purvey that might help her with the case than in himself . |
| 16 | I 'd be lucky ter get anybody that could match 'er in the kitchen . |
| 17 | Peter had grown afraid of emotion ; he considered it messy stuff that could lead one into a fatal labyrinth of self-forgetfulness . |
| 18 | Anything , anything would make death tolerable , she thought , anything that could admit something of the grand somewhere , and not this small cramped sitting room , this domestic duplicity , this pouring of cups of tea , these harshly unaltered faces . |
| 19 | They merely assumed that inhibition generates the incest taboo without pointing to any behavioural mechanism that could translate one into the other . |
| 20 | ‘ Secret people , ’ she said , ‘ who do not seem to have any business that could take them into the forest . ’ |
| 21 | The eclipses of May 21 , June 4 and November 29 set in motion changes that could put you in a new professional space by 1994 , if not before . |
| 22 | I wondered whether there was anything in the teaching of Tai-Fing that could get me through the next half an hour . |
| 23 | This could not exactly be a straight substitution : to attempt that would involve something like a category mistake . |
| 24 | Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital . |
| 25 | Luke 's features seemed to reshape themselves momentarily , his expression become one of savage anger , and he had taken the first step of the few that would bring him round the desk to her before she saw him drag control back to himself . |
| 26 | Kings led them into battle for the land ( e.g. 2 Kings 8 ) and prophets pointed them to a righteousness that would bring them to a new highway , a land where mountains would be levelled , rough places smoothed ( Is. 40.4 ) , and the Prince of Peace would establish his kingdom . |
| 27 | By virtue of Core Rule 36 , many transactions which would fall full square within Core Rule 28 are exempted because the Chinese Wall serves to negative the firm , or certain individuals within the firm , of the requisite knowledge that would bring it within the prohibition contained in Core Rule 28 . |
| 28 | It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point . |
| 29 | What norms did people learn that would blind them to the obvious ? |
| 30 | In the next chapter I will try to increase the order in our neck of the woods a little further by explaining how people are trying to fit together the partial theories I have described to form a complete unified theory that would cover everything in the universe . |