Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Might of bloody known ! |
| 32 | Over and over again , in all cultures , psychoanalytic investigations insistently reveal what Freud termed the ‘ Oedipus complex ’ but what we might with equal justice call the ‘ Gelada complex ’ . |
| 33 | to me but I d I still , I do n't get the same feeling from you as perhaps I might with medical notes , if you see what I mean ? |
| 34 | Otherwise any Zuwayi might in future quarrels assert that he was justified in aggressive action because there was blood between the Zuwaya and Zliten ( though on the whole most people present thought that improbable ) . |
| 35 | In both these there is a struggle between two opposing forces , between the mariner 's evil deed , and the need for penance , which provides the contrast between futility and lack of concern with which the mariner kills the albatross , rather evidently portraying what might in simple moralistic terms be defined as evil , and the desire to make amends for this wrongdoing . |
| 36 | You might in good time like to write a pop-psychology book under that title ? |
| 37 | So , for example , the behaviour of people who fall in love , such as kissing in public , is tolerated rather than drawing censure as it might in other circumstances . |
| 38 | Could that be for example because males with resources would want normally to acquire youthful wives , or perhaps it might in other words it could be could n't it that if males provide resources to females that they can use for primal investment , this would then have selective effects on females who will want certain things in order to get erm the investment and one of the things they might want to do is to look youthful . |
| 39 | Mrs. Proudie makes an immediate impression when introduced to Mr. Harding and Dr. Grantly because when they are shown into the new bishop 's study , they see Dr. Proudie , Mr. Slope and also , to their surprise , Mrs. Proudie ‘ an innovation for which a precedent might in vain be sought in all the annals of the Barchester bishopric ! ’ |
| 40 | it might in general |
| 41 | One question to bear in mind is whether it might in certain circumstances be a breach of fiduciary duty to include an exemption clause in a contract with a customer . |
| 42 | If 5% , let us say , of the total of first-preference votes are given to minute parties and frivolous independent candidates , there is no good reason why they should secure even the minimal representation to which they might in strict theoretical proportionality be entitled . |
| 43 | The other people in the restaurant , who might at other times have had stringent thoughts about race , or about white women publicly embracing black men ( or at least , not with such total lack of self-consciousness ) , were subdued — it could be seen from faces that showed tendencies to laugh too without reason to the demand of the occasion , which was for a total and uncritical abandon to happiness . |
| 44 | Remembering the kiss he had given her after breakfast it seemed as if their relationship might at long last have changed . |
| 45 | I suspected that the lesion might by pyogenic granuloma and referred her to the dermatology outpatient clinic . |
| 46 | After all , just about everything ICI makes might by held to come under this umbrella title . |
| 47 | And Sadler knew that he would strike a responsive note with his claim that the voluntary evening classes were ‘ wasteful of human material which might by timely care be made more serviceable to the State ’ . |
| 48 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 49 | " Perhaps they 'll by annoyed if we do n't have another cup . |
| 50 | They could for certain do |
| 51 | We hammered on the door for the gaoler and returned to the main gates of the prison where Benjamin left a coin and instructed the sadistic bastard to do what he could for poor Taplow . |
| 52 | Mrs Henry found out all she could about alternative cancer treatments and dabbled in some of them . |
| 53 | He was an exception among the British dancers in wanting to find our as much as he could about American ballet teachers . |
| 54 | I would n't of thought he 'd of worried too much about the outside . |
| 55 | It said : We Could Of Kiled You . |
| 56 | Their job was to hold on as long as they could against impossible odds , so as to give the rest of the army time to concentrate in a hammer-blow at the enemy centre . |
| 57 | The trustee could with good reason contest the beneficiary 's claim , and might stand a chance of success . |
| 58 | Kimura ( 1977b ) tabulates seven such cases reported in the literature and it is notable that in every case the lesion responsible could with reasonable confidence be localised to the left cerebral hemisphere . |
| 59 | 32 ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , where in the case of any action for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act , either — ( a ) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant ; or ( b ) any fact relevant to the plaintiff 's right of action has been deliberately concealed from him by the defendant ; or ( c ) the action is for relief from the consequences of a mistake ; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud , concealment or mistake ( as the case may be ) or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it … |
| 60 | I think if you got taught sex education in maybe , smaller groups , you know erm if they could with individual teachers |