Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he puts it , with a certain dispassionate irony , in a letter of early 1870 : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 2 | That last , familiar , word was used by Nietzsche himself precisely in this context and at this time : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 3 | Susannah Lopez should perhaps have the last word : |
| 4 | Manager Howard Kendall said : ‘ It 's better Paul has this done now and he should only miss the first two weeks of pre-season training . ’ |
| 5 | It had happened before , she must just plot the next square like painting by numbers . |
| 6 | For consistency , we must also neglect the second term above , which is anti-resonant : this is termed the rotating-wave approximation . |
| 7 | If Mr Major , having presided over an economic recovery , should also win the next election , the Tories would come within striking distance of Sir Robert Walpole 's record of 21 unbroken years in office , set between 1721 and 1742 . |
| 8 | Wrangham comments : ‘ We may thus find the first evidence that so-called abnormal sexual behaviour may have a biological function ’ ; but he points out that a number of issues need to be resolved . |
| 9 | I 'll perhaps remember the third one as I talk . |
| 10 | I 'll just watch the last few laps . |
| 11 | Well I 'll just see the first part of Eastenders if I can cos I 've seen the second part . |
| 12 | The act of writing can be difficult at times , but he predicts that he 'll soon become the first Parkinson 's Disease patient to abandon drugs altogether as he slowly leaves a life of disability behind him . |
| 13 | You know she 'll always 'ave the last word , so please come back and tell 'er yer sorry fer yer 'arsh words . ’ |
| 14 | I 'll probably miss the last shuttle , but I 'll be on the breakfast plane . |
| 15 | When those hybrids overran the guards they might simply tear the last survivors apart . |
| 16 | It would n't last , because it never did , and the end of October might even bring the first tentative snows of winter — but until then people would continue to be caught out , and to shiver and sweat as a penance for their gullibility . |
| 17 | If I could just discover one , and come up with a catchy marketing phrase like ‘ Turn on , Tune in , Drop out ’ , I might well become the next Timothy Leary . |
| 18 | Engine and airframe modifications have reached a possible zenith , the airscrew might well constitute the last trip to the warbird racing well . |
| 19 | We 'll then drive the last few metres to the Colombi . |
| 20 | I 'll maybe share the next one with you . ’ |
| 21 | So it has dawned on the financial markets that the enemy might actually win the next election . |
| 22 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 23 | I 'll never forget the last putt as long as I live . |
| 24 | If anyone from the hospital sees me I 'll never hear the last of it . ’ |
| 25 | Stan has a love of children and his fossils may possibly encourage the next generation to study the subject and continue the search . |
| 26 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 27 | Yes , I do enjoy living here , but it 's very different from England and , I must admit , there are times when I miss things back home so much I could literally grab the first plane out of here . ’ |
| 28 | She could only see the first few rows beyond the footlights , but knowing they were there was enough . |
| 29 | So you 'd just You 'd just put the sixth if you know that there 's two twelfth you just like that and then the twelve and then you could count round like that |
| 30 | He 'd just become the first Briton to win two world titles on foreign soil and added : ‘ I want to be the first British fighter to win three world titles at different weights . ’ |