Example sentences of "i [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not escape me that a fair hand has already written some account of my early days ; but that account broke off too soon , for I returned from the realms of ice , to which solitudes my soul — if I may be presumed to have one — was attracted . |
| 2 | Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally it is possible that I may be mistaken . |
| 3 | Although I may be mistaken . |
| 4 | Loathsome as he now is , he becomes still more so as he hypocritically professes to Cornwall his filial embarrassment : ‘ How , my lord , I may be censured , that nature thus gives way to loyalty , something fears me to think of … . |
| 5 | I may be subdivided into three elements . |
| 6 | if I strike a child in a manner likely to cause harm it is right that if the child dies I may be charged with manslaughter . |
| 7 | Brave Oates , who was born and raised in Mellor 's Putney constituency , told Scott as he left : ‘ I may be gone for some time . ’ |
| 8 | Did you say to her , I 'm going out to re I 'm going out and I may be gone for a long time . |
| 9 | It 's , you know , it 's like what 's his Captain Oates was it , going out into the tent in the Antarctic or something , you know it 's sort of I may be gone for a while , you know , in the in the , into the wilderness and never to return so that in , in the British structure er politicians are , their loyalty is central rather than local because their political futures are determined centrally rather than locally . |
| 10 | The person undertaking , if required to sign , states : " I understand the undertaking that I have given , and that if I break any of my promises to the court I may be sent to prison for contempt of court " . |
| 11 | Working as I do for a technically based industry , I hope I may be forgiven for believing that almost anything can be achieved through technology , if we are dear enough about what is needed . |
| 12 | It is as though the Prime Minister is trying to paint a canvas in the style of Georges Seurat , if I may be forgiven for referring to a continental artist . |
| 13 | I tried to find out — I may be forgiven — who would benefit from the theft of the jewel , and I learned from Mr Brown here ’ ( heads swivelling ) ‘ that Mrs Stratton was always slightly mysterious — ambivalent , even about her own financial affairs . |
| 14 | Quite a large part of that excitement is due to you , to your designs , and , also , if I may be forgiven for mentioning something so personal , for the way you have helped and befriended Therese . |
| 15 | ‘ I am fully conscious of the fact that in so concluding I may be said not to be applying Reg. v. Morris . |
| 16 | Then again , I may be struck by lightning before I reach the church . |
| 17 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 18 | I may be tempted towards didacticism , but this is n't an advice column . |
| 19 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 20 | Of course I may be prejudiced — he called me Old Faithful . ’ |
| 21 | As as I see it er it 's and I I may be corrected on this , Professor Lock 's hypothesis is that we over-provide land and then limit release once an |
| 22 | ‘ And I hope I may be spared to repaint my own house when I am ninety-eight , Doctor ! ’ |
| 23 | I may be proved wrong , but I think they will be surprised at the change in the pace and intensity of international rugby since they 've been away . |
| 24 | If I read Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice and notice the anti-semitism which surrounds the character of Shylock , I may be bothered by it , even condemn Shakespeare for his anti-semitism . |
| 25 | I may be crippled but I have the use of my eyes and my intelligence . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps I may be permitted to quote from Morris Zapp 's lecture on ‘ Textuality as striptease ’ in my novel , Small World : |
| 27 | A most personable young man , if I may be permitted to observe . ’ |
| 28 | I believe that the new generation of " 16 bit " machines ( such as the ACT Sirius 1 ) will prove to be well capable of meeting these demands If I may be permitted one small advertisement , I do not expect it to be long before I can fulfil my objective of promoting the use of micros in personnel through the marketing of systems developed specifically for this field . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps I may be permitted to take you , ’ Lubor jumped in before she could draw another breath . |
| 30 | As he is interested in having inaccuracies corrected , perhaps I may be permitted to clear up some which appeared in his letter . |