Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High welfare benefits may attract electoral support from the recipients , but the high taxes to pay for them may lead to electoral unpopularity with the wider population ; balancing the two is a difficult political act . |
| 2 | Again , some of these processes occur in normal adolescence and indeed even all of them may occur in some people in the absence of drug use , although this is improbable . |
| 3 | After a long discussion , they decided that one of them should ask for more food after supper that evening , and Oliver was chosen . |
| 4 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 5 | Grant that by my prayers and alms , I may give to each continent what it requires : to Africa , a native clergy of black hands lifting your body ; to Asia , a rich harvest from the red blood , seed of her martyrs ; to Oceania , a necklace of islands made into a Rosary for the faith ; to Europe , already so tired , a renewal of youth at the altar of God ; to America , an exchange of the pearl of great price for material riches . |
| 6 | I look forward to hearing thoughtful and far-reaching speeches such as that made by the hon. Member for Chichester when these matters are discussed at Maastricht , and I hope that views such as his will be reflected in Maastricht — a subject to which I may return in due course . |
| 7 | I 'm afraid I may fall into some wicked trap . |
| 8 | ‘ There is no doubt as to the general rule stated in Leake on Contracts to which I have already referred , that money paid voluntarily — that is to say , without compulsion or extortion or undue influence , and , of course , I may add without any fraud on the part of the person to whom it is paid , and with knowledge of all the facts , though paid without any consideration , or in discharge of a claim not due , or a claim which might have been successfully resisted , can not be recovered back . |
| 9 | I may look for another opportunity to talk to Mrs Tate . ’ |
| 10 | I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents … |
| 11 | Shame on me for this is the first issue of SR I 've ever read ( Nov ) , but I hope it will not be the last , for may I say , I think I may have at last found a space where I can be heard — most women 's magazines shun the type of letter I submit — not cosy enough for their letters pages , I suspect . |
| 12 | ‘ I may die in five years time — hopefully someone else will be there giving the same message . ’ |
| 13 | If I may say to those on the Front Benches too , half-hour speeches would help the whole House . |
| 14 | It is , as I may say from repeated experience , a pure and unmixed pleasure to have a goodly volume lying before you , and to know that you … need not open it unless you please … |
| 15 | A DoT spokesman said : ‘ These trips of his may sound like jolly larks , but he is being very irresponsible . |
| 16 | ‘ Lucky me , ’ I ought to say at this point with whatever the typographical symbol for a wink and a leer is . |
| 17 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 18 | I ought to go round this side . |
| 19 | Christmas is coming and he thinks I ought to know about some little joints called Tiffany 's and Bloomingdale 's . |
| 20 | If , as I must assume for present purposes , the plaintiffs have a good cause of action in professional negligence against the third party , then it must be at least possible , if not indeed likely , that the damages recoverable by the plaintiffs from the third party would include damages under at least some of these heads . |
| 21 | I must apologise for this stupid oversight which is doubtless my fault — a symptom of the pressure we seem to be constantly under these days . |
| 22 | Could , could I say , I must reply to that . |
| 23 | I feel I must reply to some of the points Mr , Findlay made during the course of the conversation ( I was told that these were not just his views , ie. he had discussed the matter with you ) . |
| 24 | My Lords , that concludes my analysis of what I perceive to be the important British cases but before seeking to draw conclusions therefrom I must refer to certain Commonwealth and American cases . |
| 25 | I find all this difficult to understand , perceiving no dichotomy ; though I must confess to some predilection for the original letter or manuscript . |
| 26 | ‘ In the first place , Inez was a distant relative — some sort of cousin — but I must confess to another more direct motive . |
| 27 | Yes , I 've got yeah I know they did , but I think after a while they stopped doing that I think the latest ones you 'll find do n't , do n't do that , they gave , you know , after a while they gave that up , but I , I must check on that , I must check on . |
| 28 | There is one other book which I must mention in this survey which is in danger of becoming a self-advertising catalogue . |
| 29 | ‘ I must admit at that time I had little sympathy for the victims , having heard gruesome evidence at court , but my feelings have now changed . |
| 30 | I must admit at this stage I though I had cracked it but I should have known after so many years of breeding fish , success is not guaranteed . |