Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may only serve to aggravate matters further and undermine your role as a neutral . |
| 2 | Also , it can not be ignored that Marco did n't have many options , since Eddie was about to kill him , and Marco 's actions were in self-defence : I think that Marco may only have beaten Eddie up had he not drawn the knife , but not killed him . |
| 3 | Elves , like dragons , are embedded deeply in several different traditions of North-West Europe , and the inconsistencies of those traditions may only have made Tolkien itch to create a Zusammenhang . |
| 4 | Wear Valley Council may only have promised Stanley United FC two footballs ( Gadfly March 4 ) but the hidden agenda looks more promising . |
| 5 | At the stage in the growth of a scientific discovery when it is no longer just internal but has not yet become a formal paper , then the scholarly interchange would have depended on whom individuals knew or knew of , the letter writing would be unmanaged and survive by chance ( often only one side of the story ) and , due to concern that ideas should not be stolen , may only have taken place at a late stage of the discovery process . |
| 6 | My concern is why the health common services authority , with its 800 valuable jobs , should suddenly decide to change direction and head for the bay . |
| 7 | The publication by Lobachevsky in 1829 of a consistent ( non-Euclidean ) geometry , in which Euclid 's parallel postulate is denied , should perhaps have turned mathematicians ' attention back to a study of axioms , especially as it had long been appreciated that Euclid 's use of the axiomatic method was , to say the least , inconsistent ( [ 106 ] contains stronger views . ) |
| 8 | She should perhaps have brought Glyn after all . |
| 9 | William and Gladys Wilkins had paid £23,000 for the work — which experts said should only have cost £2,700 . |
| 10 | The advice offered in Chapter 8 on more effective reading was that you should only begin to take notes after a first reading — when you 've grasped the structure and got the gist of the topic being dealt with . |
| 11 | The Lord President ( Cooper ) in IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 at 230 stated that : … it is not enough that a person resident in the United Kingdom should somehow have derived benefit from the income of a foreign possession … the duty of the Court was to seek for an actual remittance to , and receipt in , the United Kingdom and not to be lead astray by an " equivalent " to a remittance or receipt , or a " constructive receipt " . |
| 12 | The Lord 's Prayer is quoted in the repeated fragment ‘ For Thine is the Kingdom ’ but the earlier uses of the word kingdom , particularly when it has a capital ‘ K ’ , must already have prompted questions about allusion to this fundamental Christian rite , and about how it relates to those ‘ prayers to broken stone ’ . |
| 13 | Before the IUD could do its work conception must already have taken place , egg and sperm having fused in a fallopian , and the multiplying cells travelled down to the womb to seek a place of anchorage , a home which the alpha-shaped loop by its very presence denied them , causing the minute beginnings of an embryo to swim in vain and ultimately be shed . |
| 14 | We should thus avoid using phrases such as " the standard molar enthalpy of oxidation of hydrogen " as they are ambiguous . |
| 15 | He says the company is n't looking for any more investors and should soon start generating cash . |
| 16 | Tivoli is n't looking for any more investors and should soon start generating cash . |
| 17 | Metaphysics — the white mythology which reassembles and reflects the culture of the West : the white man takes his own mythology , Indo-European mythology , his own logos , that is , the mythos of his idiom , for the universal form of that he must still wish to call Reason . |
| 18 | Although these roads must always have provided access to the dockyard at the Gillingham Gate they had not carried heavy goods vehicles to any extent in the past . |
| 19 | While it is not right that either partner should always have to give way to the other , each may have to concede at times , for both their sakes and for the well-being of their marriage . |
| 20 | Before expressing a qualified opinion an auditor should always try to resolve problems with the management of the organization concerned . |
| 21 | Why was Black shot when the army 's procedure explicitly states that soldiers should always try to handle situations ‘ other than by opening fire ’ ? |
| 22 | MAS should always attempt to draft heads of agreement as this thereby enables us to control the transaction . |
| 23 | If there is any doubt , the cashier should tactfully try to obtain proof of identity , e.g. passport or driving licence . |
| 24 | If you have created your own LIFESPAN_ROUTER command file ( as described in Section 2.11 , User Access to Process ) , then you must also give READ access to this file . |
| 25 | However , ultraviolet radiation must also have aided evolution . |
| 26 | It must also have provided opportunities for men to meet regularly to discuss politics , and such discussions , and the attitude of those in the shires in times of crisis , may often have centred on how far they thought the king and his officials were living up to what was expected of them . |
| 27 | The translation must also have helped proselytism , which acquired quite different dimensions as soon as the Jews began to speak Greek . |
| 28 | We must also try to direct support much more to the specialist producers of high-quality British beef . |
| 29 | It may be thought unreasonable that the legislation should both refuse to give credit for repayments and charge renewed borrowings as if they were a first-time borrowing . |
| 30 | He should also avoid drinking alcohol . |