Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that erm if we 're talking to parents , for example , about being assertive , we know that very often the feelings behind their inability to be assertive need to be addressed first of all and then the skills that they may want to acquire will fit in with erm a different quality erm of where it 's emanating from in them as a person . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , as I understand it , the individual may be striving towards mature object relations but finds himself in situations where those in authority to whom he may want to relate may cause him to regress towards infantile dependence . |
| 3 | His blond head dipped briefly , as he refused her the possibility of completing what he must have guessed would have been a remonstrative retort . |
| 4 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I want simply to tell you that work on your notes connected with the Big Glass is at last under way and that I have remained scholarly and impartial throughout what has not been an easy task , in view of what you say about me and especially about my family , and which you must have known would give offense . |
| 5 | So perhaps we might need to do might want to until I return , which I should n't think will take too long . |
| 6 | However this was not a material irregularity ; the Court had heard the tape and had the jury done so , it would have confirmed their views , expressed in the verdict of guilty , because they would have heard the gruff , bass voice of the appellant , as described by the victim in his evidence , and any lingering hesitation they might have felt would have been dispelled . |
| 7 | Thus the animal locates itself in space by use of environmental reference points ( this is of course more or less what a psychologically untutored lay person might have guessed would happen , but it was not what psychologists brought up on a diet of Skinner would have theorized ) . |
| 8 | The other path that he might have followed would have involved a direct appeal to the French people to support his constitutional views . |
| 9 | The existence of any secrecy which might have existed will have been destroyed by the indifference of the employer ( see for example Sun Printers Ltd v Westminster Press Ltd [ 1982 ] IRLR 292 ) . |
| 10 | For one thing , there would be problems in establishing causation : showing that steps that a more energetic management might have taken would have made a difference to the company 's position would involve an assessment of complex and often imponderable factors . |
| 11 | to offer to the holders of ordinary shares of £1 each in the capital of the Company ( ‘ Ordinary Shares ’ ) the right to elect to receive an allotment of new Ordinary Shares , credited as fully paid , in lieu of all or part of the final cash dividend in respect of the financial year of the Company ended on 31st March 1993 in all respects in such manner as may be determined by the directors on the basis and subject to the conditions of the circular dated 21st June 1993 sent to the members of the Company by the Company and , in particular , such that the aggregate nominal value of the new Ordinary Shares which such holders may elect to receive may exceed the aggregate cash dividend which they would otherwise be entitled to receive ; and |
| 12 | If you have played DEFECT ( this means we have to look at the right hand column ) , the best card I could have played would have been DEFECT too . |
| 13 | Nothing John Smith as leader of the Opposition attack could have said would have been as damaging as the bitter words of Norman Lamont , speaking with all the knowledge and authority of a former key member of the Government . |
| 14 | A remedy was refused , the court holding that nothing the student could have said could have affected the decision reached . |
| 15 | Nothing he could have said could have terrified her more ; it meant he wanted to take her to bed as well as take her self-respect and her father 's company . |
| 16 | A whole stream of events issues from the decision , raising in one 's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way . |
| 17 | A whole stream of events issues from the decision , raising in one 's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way . |
| 18 | If this official Labour council gave a clear commitment to write off the debts of those on benefit and income support , then those who could afford to pay would settle their debts . |
| 19 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 20 | ‘ We have 30 men who are working from 6am to 11pm and most of the extra payments we would expect to receive may go on overtime . ’ |
| 21 | Anyone who would like to attend should contact organiser Peter Goodwin on Redcar 472249 . |
| 22 | Anyone who would like to help can contact Cleveland Aid for Romanian Children on Middlesbrough 253643 . |
| 23 | Anyone who has time to spare and would like to help can contact Moira on Darlington . |
| 24 | Anyone who would like to help can donate money to account number 2/3 8856 626/ 1 at any Halifax Building Society branch . |
| 25 | — Anyone who would like to help should telephone Mr Harper on . |
| 26 | What I really would have liked would have been to disappear with as little fuss as possible . |
| 27 | If this was the case all he would have done would have been to Hegelianize Ricardo . |
| 28 | Yeah but then the first thing he would have done would have been got up and gone off and got it done privately . |
| 29 | The sense of excitement that Ruth would have had might have changed a wee bit to almost a little bit of fear . |
| 30 | As the dance continued , some of them began to snap their limbs about with convulsive movements that Ace would have thought would have dislocated those limbs in an instant . |