Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [noun] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government department concerned for dishing out the dosh in these matters must presumably think croquet is a corporate hospitality device . |
| 2 | It is said that the most the justices should do if they think that contact should not take place is to say that there should be no order as to contact , leaving it to the local authority and the parent by agreement to make any other provisions they wish . |
| 3 | Similarly , an expert selling obsolete knowledge may soon find power is withdrawn . |
| 4 | I 'll just bet modellin' is thirsty work . ’ |
| 5 | Parents armed with this information , might well think Saintbridge is not a good choice for their children . |
| 6 | ‘ I would not suggest Dalton is in the Liverpool or Arsenal class , but he could fit into a mid-table side . |
| 7 | And that old theory that animals ca n't see colours is just not true because any vehicle which is black or red in colour appears to get more attention that any other . |
| 8 | I ca n't believe Wilko is happy with the board going behind his back like that . |
| 9 | I ca n't believe Mel is the player he was two years ago and he must be getting on a bit now , but we have still got Ray Wallace just incase I s'pose . |
| 10 | I think he 's done it , I think he 's across the river and safe and there 's a buzzy glow of vicarious accomplishment starting to well up within me , but then there 's a cracking noise and he falls ; I think he 's tripped and fallen forward but he is n't lying flat on the snow , he 's sunk up to his waist in it and there 's a pool of darkness spreading on the whiteness around him as he struggles , trying to lever himself out and I ca n't believe this is happening , ca n't believe Andy is n't going to jump free ; I 'm yelling in fear now , shouting his name , screaming out to him . |
| 11 | As they have chosen to stay closed , I ca n't imagine business is that bad . ’ |
| 12 | However , it will be noted that the list of qualifications under which participation in the intermediate market will not take place is extensive . |
| 13 | Arthritis sufferers will also find cycling is good for the joints . |
| 14 | In contrast , the moral universe within which the Piaroa can not inflict violence is very wide , encompassing all of Piaroaland . |
| 15 | We can not pretend GIS is a solution to the political problems of negotiation and justification but at the very least the openness of the procedures goes some way towards satisfying a worried public . |
| 16 | To ask questions to which people can not give answers is a waste of time for everyone — but one does , from time to time , come across schedules which include questions which require such feats of memory or such difficult calculations that no reasonable person can be expected to give an answer . |
| 17 | Getting a partnership is not easy , and the new partner who can not provide capital is inevitably burdened with some form of payment for his share . |
| 18 | Anyone who imagines that any regulatory system can invariably guarantee success is naive . |
| 19 | And what we can then see happening is a hardening of specific judgements into presumptions of classes , based now not only on mixed criteria ( for there are held to be cases of ‘ skilfully executed nonsense ’ or ‘ professionally brilliant hokum ’ as well as of ‘ clumsy art ’ or ‘ raw but authentic artistic power ’ ) but also , and crucially , on criteria which are incompatible with the original delimitation by the nature of the practice . |
| 20 | The Foreign Secretary stressed , however , that aid on its own can never ensure reform is successfully carried through in the two countries . |