Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] he [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 2 | It seems a bit unlikely that Paul would use candles which he would know he had no right to use or that he would actually be involved in magic practices . ’ |
| 3 | I was n't there trying to tell him that he was doing something wrong or that he should n't be doing it . |
| 4 | There are five specific reasons for not calling a witness given in r25 — namely , that the witness is dead or beyond the seas or unfit by reason of bodily or mental condition to attend as a witness or that , despite the exercise of reasonable diligence , it has not been possible to identify or find him or that he can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection of matters relevant to the accuracy or otherwise of the statement . |
| 5 | Nobody dared to claim that Dukakis represented anything in particular or that he could reliably arouse anything more than a snore , but that was not the point . |
| 6 | The courts will not take the incidence of future inflation into account in calculating the dependency , but if it is established that the deceased would have increased his income in the future for reasons other than inflation ( eg because he would have been promoted if he had remained in his job or because he would probably have attained higher and better paid skills or a better paid job if he had lived ) this might give grounds for increasing the multiplicand . |
| 7 | well I , whether I , I do n't know whether he would or whether he would n't . |
| 8 | Erm the other parts that I made a note of , you did n't ac well you Steve said the wife will be back in an hour and a half erm you did n't pick up Bill any , anything on that at that stage as to whether she ought to be involved although when he started talking or when he could n't remember the , the names of the or dates of birth of the children , he remembered the names , the dates of birth of the children , you mentioned the fact then that the wife would be back in a in an hour |
| 9 | Section 9 provides that where he can not or does not make the valuation , the contract is avoided . |
| 10 | He ca n't get any money se so so he ca n't get erm what do you call it ? |
| 11 | Answering , she matched my silly spite with careful , sensible remarks ; politics , she said , was the art of the possible and a good man , once in power , might find himself forced to do some things not quite in accord with his principles , but this did not mean he had forgotten them , nor that he would not act upon them the moment he practically could . |
| 12 | ‘ the rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share , except that he shall not , before being registered as the holder of the share , be entitled in respect of it to attend or vote at any general meeting of the company or at a separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the company . ’ |
| 13 | This document purports to carry out the last mortal wish of the testator , except that he will probably go to eternity without being entirely sure that the document he signed actually said what he wanted , because he was quite unable to read it . |
| 14 | Nothing was said about his next move , except that he could hardly expect his sister to take him in now , and that he was unwilling , under any circumstances , to move to Purley . |
| 15 | Limbs pliant , reason suspended , she lay in a universe where nothing mattered except that he should not stop . |
| 16 | And El-ahrairah knew then that although he would not be mocked , yet Frith was his friend . |
| 17 | At the turn of the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Norman Anonymous ( formerly known as the Anonymous of York ) wrote that ‘ the king reigns with Christ ’ , reflecting the common doctrine of the tenth and early eleventh centuries that the king was Christ 's vicar , that he was rex et sacerdos , that although he could not administer the sacraments , he ruled over the Church as well as over his temporal kingdom , that all authority was vested in him . |
| 18 | More than that he could not do . |
| 19 | After all , in the war Barry would have been told that he was fighting to uphold the rights of small nations , so what could be more logical than that he should now fight for the rights of his own country , Ireland , a small nation if ever there was one ! |
| 20 | Soft ground is essential for Yahoo and conditions should be to his liking , although if he could not beat Desert Orchid in the Cheltenham bog it is difficult to visualise him doing it at Kempton . |
| 21 | Because this is what he always felt after his father died — that if he could just speak to him now , he could really open his heart and say everything , without feeling that strange mute on his vocal chords . |
| 22 | He was still convinced that if he could somehow get rid of the tension in the neck then the other problems would automatically be resolved . |
| 23 | She resolved that if he could n't find the necessary courage , she would . |
| 24 | Steven decided that if he could n't come up with a definitive artistic statement to impress the grown-ups , then at least he could impress them with the definitive bank statement . |
| 25 | Leech , who had expected a generous-minded rival , was amazed at Burton 's blunt declaration that if he could not make the acting game pay well and soon , he would be off . |
| 26 | Cunningham had strengthened his belief that if he could only follow the clues for which Heather 's photographs were somehow emblems he would find the truth — and Heather with it . |
| 27 | He felt that if he could only solve the button problem something else would be explained . |
| 28 | Nigel says that if he could only win one more race then it would be the British Grand Prix at Silverstone |
| 29 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 30 | Does he realise that if he will not act on the problem , it will not only produce a tide of human misery , but will bring to a clattering end any hope of economic recovery ? |