Example sentences of "think it [modal v] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it may be even more important that he should meet me . |
| 2 | I will race out to buy the video , because I think it may be more digestible chopped into bite-size pieces and perused in terminally sleazy surroundings when one is tanked up on Sol and takeaway Chinese . |
| 3 | But I think it may be more appropriate if I actually met with say the management committee as opposed to myself yes I 'm quite happy to do that to meet any individual or group who feel they have some concerns they wish to discuss and I give that I give that assurance this evening . |
| 4 | ‘ But I think it may be too icy , ’ I added , as a let-out clause . |
| 5 | ‘ I think it may be too late for words . ’ |
| 6 | I think it may be twice a week . |
| 7 | The date is not certain , but we think it would be somewhere around 1925 . |
| 8 | I think it would be most appropriate for the local representatives of the Church of Scotland , since the areas are presbyteries , to take the initiative or to give that encouragement without which these local teams will not find a place . |
| 9 | I think it would be well worth involving , who has just started a year at Selly Oak — his letter attached . |
| 10 | I think it would be best if I went somewhere else . ’ |
| 11 | I think it would be best now to tell you what happened this afternoon . |
| 12 | Now , if you 're not going to order another drink quietly then I think it would be best if you went on your way . ’ |
| 13 | I think it would be best if you came across as nobly resigned : ‘ How could she stoop to do this to me ’ — something along those lines — without going into too much detail . |
| 14 | ‘ If you come across Amy , I think it would be best if you put her in touch with me rather than trying anything on your own . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think it would be best if we remained on formal terms . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I think it would be physically impossible to drink all that every night on a tour . |
| 17 | I think it would be probably worthwhile erm talking to the residents down there , and actually explaining that th what 's happening to them . |
| 18 | ‘ I think it would be rather difficult not to be fond of the young lady . |
| 19 | I think we 'd find Mr Churchill that it it 's rather more complex than that and and the requirements for delivering a nuclear weapon and you refer to the possibility of C A S O M being nuclear capable , one has to be fairly careful quite a , there 's a degree of difference between a missile needed to do the two jobs and I think it would be rather more than wiring which would be er at issue here , there 's the payload and all the rest of it which I suspect would cause very severe problems with that . |
| 20 | So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury . |
| 21 | I think it would be dead interesting . |
| 22 | I think it would be extremely prudent of you to keep a very low profile indeed for the next few days . ’ |
| 23 | The Labour leadership was sceptical about workers ' control , indeed Cripps is reported as having said ‘ I think it would be almost impossible to have worker-controlled industry in Britain even if it were on the whole desirable ’ ( Coates & Topham , 1975 , p. 60 ) . |
| 24 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 25 | I think it would be far more helpful if we had an amendment . |
| 26 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 27 | Erm I mean I was just finding myself expressing the views that er given the dramatic change in the composition of the County Council since the election , I would have thought something as major as the East Grinstead by-pass would need to be considered by the new council anyway and er I think it would be perhaps er assuming too much er to believe that the present council would follow the line of the previous council that 's only er a personal expression . |
| 28 | There are also sexual impulses which they can not incorporate in relationships with their wives , because they and their wives think it would be too animal-like and demeaning to perform them . |
| 29 | I think it would be more difficult to gain access and get co-operation [ from a British Force ] . |
| 30 | The reason HP is rated ‘ difficult to arrange ’ by more people than other credit types is not that people think it would be more difficult to arrange , but that people generally were quicker to apply any comments to it presumably because it has a more prominent image for them . |