Example sentences of "who [modal v] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 2 | Books can be sold on their jackets to impulse buyers who may well not read more than a few pages once they have bought them . |
| 3 | Those with faith are those who can ‘ see ’ , and who may therefore only engage in a limited dialogue with the ‘ blind ’ . |
| 4 | Very likely there was a general cut in wages brought about by a combination of causes , not the least of which was the loss of an employer who may very well have paid premium rates in order to attract and retain labour ; in any case the living standards of the cloth workers had fallen sharply by 1524 , and with them those of the farm labourers of the other villages in the district . |
| 5 | In recent years , attention has increasingly focussed on the needs of these carers , who may very much want to care but who may need practical help and advice as well as emotional support . |
| 6 | But , instead of being able to sit back and enjoy this baby , she has also to look after the other children who may only just have left the baby stage themselves . |
| 7 | One of those who must never never know was Tina 's mother . |
| 8 | Among his colleagues there was his feoffee John Hoton of Tudhoe , who should probably also be numbered among Gloucester 's Durham associates . |
| 9 | Among his colleagues there was his feoffee John Hoton of Tudhoe , who should probably also be numbered among Gloucester 's Durham associates . |
| 10 | DRUG addicts and ‘ dossers ’ are being considered by the Government among groups who should no longer be counted as unemployed . |
| 11 | While the mentally ill remain very much part of the prison scene , the central government has recently taken action ( Juvenile Justice Act 1986 ) to exclude another group who should certainly not be incarcerated . |
| 12 | You 're the sort of girl , Thérèse pronounced : who 'll probably not have much of a career . |
| 13 | She shivered as she thought of the creature who might even now be stalking the velvet blackness outside , looking up at the lighted windows , deciding whether or not to break in . |
| 14 | Secondly , there was also the chance that the commotion of the brief struggle might have attracted other human enemies , who might even then be closing in on him . |
| 15 | Buck , the man who was possibly in danger , the man whose wife wanted him lost and gone forever , the man who might perhaps already … |
| 16 | Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting . |
| 17 | However , because the CAB door is always open , the CAB adviser is expected to cope , at least initially , with clients who might more suitably be supported by a counsellor or social worker . |
| 18 | Occasionally the public relations executive of an organisation is also that organisation 's spokesman but , except for promotional and marketing campaigns where the PRO is indeed the expert in the area , the provision of an obvious intermediary can lead to the viewer seeing him as a buffer for those who might more usefully have appeared . |
| 19 | We will maintain the Assisted Places scheme , which gives access to independent education to many families who could otherwise not afford it . |
| 20 | In a statement read to the court , Shooter described his crime as ‘ a cry for help from someone who could no longer handle the pressures of life ’ . |
| 21 | Thus subscription prices were shooting up and cutting off thousands of readers who could no longer afford them . |
| 22 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 23 | An Essex countryman who could no longer find any work ‘ drowned himself in a lake … |
| 24 | Then I was in the corridor , having an intimate talk with an old friend who could no longer stand . |
| 25 | It would have been unthinkable to have at the head of State a King and Queen who could no longer bear to be with each other . |
| 26 | The introduction of the ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ system of parole for convicts who could no longer be transported provoked waves of anxiety from 1853 onwards that dangerous criminals were being released to prowl the streets of the metropolis with no evidence of the character reformation promised by the new prison disciplines . |
| 27 | Miriam or one of the older children of the garrison who could no longer play outside since the shrinking of the perimeter sat constantly at his bedside to fan him and to defend him against the mosquitoes . |
| 28 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 29 | Also the rates had a regressive effect on some members of the public : e.g. on elderly people who sometimes occupied large , highly rated properties but who could no longer afford to pay the rates demanded since their incomes were insufficient . |
| 30 | Three years ago the Government recognised the growing problem for people on low and moderate incomes who could no longer get legal aid . |