Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Neptune and Uranus may well create rather more chaos than anything else so you must be careful with your spending , and anything but trusting of other people 's interference : in fact less than trusting with anything to do with borrowing or lending . |
| 2 | However , many philosophers today would probably go along more with Hare 's original position and say that although Kant may well have answered the third sort of question ( page 98 ) well , he has not adequately answered the second ( still less , it would generally be thought , the first ) . |
| 3 | Botha will almost certainly captain South Africa rather than Jannie Breedt , though Breedt may well stay as No 8 . |
| 4 | Mr Honey may yet crack the private-car market too . |
| 5 | Looking at the patchwork nature of the results , Sir Patrick may well decide that his proposals to give new talks ‘ a sense of direction and focus ’ would be better grounded in reality than continued wishful thinking . |
| 6 | At least one writer has speculated that Carver may recently have lost a son ( by circular argument , in that selfsame Stirling plague ) , but the truth is we simply do n't know what , if any , personal reference is composed into the music . |
| 7 | If the holder 's vehicles suffer prohibitions because of unroadworthiness or overloading , if he has made false statements of intent which have not been fulfilled , if there has been a material change of circumstances relating to the licence holder or if an unnominated operating centre has been used , the LA may also revoke , suspend , curtail or prematurely terminate the licence . |
| 8 | For many political scientists involved in the study of global politics , issues of peace and war remain the principal focus of analysis , a priority with which the peoples of war-torn former Yugoslavia or the post-Soviet Caucasus may well concur . |
| 9 | This increase in TDPI may simply reflect the fact that pensioners start from a very low base . |
| 10 | Increased reliance on Moscow may now hold out much prospect of improvement in growth , productivity or living standards , but intra-bloc trade at least offers assured markets , predictable performance benchmarks , and the kind of long-term trading agreements which are the staple of central planning and of central planners . |
| 11 | Now Mr. Duggan may well have video evidence of Welsh dirty play in the past and also the statements of Will Carling , the England captain , may not be quite to his liking , but please gentlemen , come on ! |
| 12 | Brampton may still have killed my son , and Vechey 's death be totally unconnected with this . ’ |
| 13 | It is exactly this point which D. J. Enright makes in the observation that ‘ Plato may once have thought more highly of speech than of writing , but I doubt he does now ! ’ |
| 14 | In other words , Offa may never have wished this to be anything other than a wholly Mercian ceremony . |
| 15 | Although Offa may once have aspired to be ‘ king of the English ’ , Cenwulf did not , and it is arguable , for all his control of southern England apart from Wessex , that Mercian power declined in his reign . |
| 16 | I think Roger 's Roger has , we might not like it but Roger may well have a point cos he does n't ha |
| 17 | Victoria may yet have lessons for its British parent . |
| 18 | and it 's a case of er if you 're talking to somebody about pension requirement it would be a case of Mr Prospect let's just have a look , let's imagine today is the last day that you 'll be working as a carpenter . |
| 19 | Boss Alex Ferguson may now gamble on his veteran as United prepare for the second leg of this UEFA Cup tie with the scores at 0-0 . |
| 20 | With Great Britain coach Mal Reilly again likely to pick Gary Connolly and Alan Hunte for his side , St Helens may also have to switch their fixture with Sheffield Eagles at Knowsley Road with Jonathan Griffiths and Anthony Sullivan in the Welsh squad . |
| 21 | Snow may also lie later in block screes ( which also tend to be located below north-facing slopes because they were mostly formed by freeze-thaw action ) . |
| 22 | The more immediate problem , however , was which of the two Boards ( trade or education ) should have overall authority for the juvenile side of the exchanges and Churchill may well have sensed that a controversy was brewing . |
| 23 | Digital Equipment Corp says that its Alpha second source agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corp is not an exclusive pact and that it is talking with other firms that may become second sources of the chip ; ‘ We are not looking for a large number of semiconductor partners , however we are having discussions with other semiconductor companies ; those relationships could happen at various levels , ’ — DEC may still seek other firms to design versions without the marketing that Mitsubishi is providing . |
| 24 | Thus would be decided whether or not C.N.L. should ever see the documents . |
| 25 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 26 | So , that morning presented a wonderful opportunity — and just a little compensation perhaps for the huge disappointment Kemp must undoubtedly have experienced over the theft of the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 27 | Mr. Bingley must also return their visit by visiting the Bennets , if he is not to be rude . |
| 28 | The Kawasakis of Alan Irwin , Ian Simpson and Jim Moodie must also come into the equation , together with the Yamahas of Rymer , Johnny Rea and Alan Patterson , who is making the step up to Superbike for the first time . |
| 29 | She had declared that Edwin must henceforward run the Ashwell estates , as if he had already come into his inheritance . |
| 30 | Having a curve shape matched to that of Multigrade should also establish XP2 as a universal copy film . |