Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adv] [adj] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must be pretty great having Sir Thomas as a father . ’ |
| 2 | But it must be too late to save Daak , she thought . |
| 3 | He might be less likely to dismiss Pope John Paul II as the stooge of a defunct ideology , yet there is plenty in the conservative tradition of Vatican thinking which is just as subversive of his attempt to present consumerist liberal society as ‘ final ’ . |
| 4 | Whoever comes to Oxford 's rescue it 'll be too late to keep Paul Simpson and his goal scoring talents at the Manor Ground . |
| 5 | I guess it will all work out , but I 'd be very sad to see Wilkinson go , particularly now when his work is yet unfinished . |
| 6 | He 'd be more likely to tell Meredith Putt of our intentions . ’ |
| 7 | It may be very difficult to distinguish Crohn 's disease from recurrent pouchitis , nevertheless typical small bowel recurrence has become apparent in all three patients who have had their pouch excised and in one other case in this series . |
| 8 | It would be better to close Aston than to ruin it , ’ ) it may be less loath to advertise Aston 's kinship with the other of Ford 's British buy-ups , Jaguar . |
| 9 | These changes in emphasis are welcome but may be too late to reinstate Morrison and Boyd as the brand leader . |
| 10 | It would be as inconceivable to find Richard II speaking prose as it would be to meet Thersites in verse . |
| 11 | Mrs Harrison , who lives in Lache , Chester , said : ‘ I thought it would be quite strange to see Gwendoline again and it was . |
| 12 | Mrs Harrison , who lives in Lache , Chester , said : ‘ I thought it would be quite strange to see Gwendoline again and it was . |
| 13 | It would be quite wrong to accept Thomas Walsingham 's opinion that Gaunt had designs on the crown himself . |
| 14 | If she missed it , it might mean that she would be too late to rescue Joe . |
| 15 | ‘ It would be very sad to see Middlesbrough without first-class cricket . ’ |
| 16 | It would be very refreshing to see Luke embarrassed , for a change . |
| 17 | It would be a few hours before she could face Marguerite , and no doubt the girl , Marie , would be very quick to tell Alain 's mother that she had seen the Englishwoman wandering into the woods like a lunatic . |
| 18 | ‘ In a controlled state like Pakistan , when people land from Dubai by a plane whose number is given and the names of persons given , it would be very difficult to say Pakistan can not find them , ’ India 's foreign minister , Dinesh Singh , said . |
| 19 | Outcomes ( c ) or ( d ) would be very likely to cause McAlpine to challenge the legal validity of the Secretary of State 's power to reach these conclusions , in the High Court through a Judicial Review . |
| 20 | We would be very happy to see Mr 's paper used as a check list . |
| 21 | Loretta was about to protest at this arrangement — she had not yet recovered from her irritation with Geoffrey — but decided it would be more diplomatic to follow Bridget into the kitchen . |
| 22 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 23 | But , particularly since Tiananmen , it has been echoing the argument that people would be less concerned to leave Hong Kong before 1997 if they could be absolutely confident that other countries would accept them after that date . |
| 24 | In many ways we shall be very sad to see Muriel go . |
| 25 | AUSTRALIAN wonder wing David Campese will be fully fit to face Wales at Cardiff Arms Park , but believes the world champions wo n't be going into the game as favourites . |
| 26 | The Chancellor 's Autumn Statement will be too late to help Elizabeth Smart herself — the fencing business her father began 30 years ago is now in receivership . |
| 27 | The Chancellor 's Autumn Statement will be too late to help Elizabeth Smart herself — the fencing business her father began 30 years ago is now in receivership . |
| 28 | In her thesis she writes about it , but she also — I surmise — sees the downside ( as Letterman says ) , namely that none of these religious beliefs will be sufficiently adhesive to hold Masai society together once the other solvents get to work . |
| 29 | It will be very good to have Dame Diana preach . |