Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The absence of cases in west Thurso above age 4 among children born locally may at least partly reflect the immunity conferred by their recent exposure at earlier ages . |
| 2 | In these , positions , the glazing must be ‘ safe ’ , and this can be achieved in may of the following ways : |
| 3 | But he sees this foundationalist as a weak-kneed sceptic , who ought in consistency to go further ; who ought , in fact , to doubt whether he understands the proposition that other minds exist , and so ought to be a solipsist . |
| 4 | I mean they all ought to be geared up for all this for Christ 's sake . |
| 5 | But operations uniformly repeated , motions which succeed one another without interruption , are the causes which alone ought to be the foundation of our reasoning " . |
| 6 | It perhaps ought to be pointed out here that an odd sentence is not necessarily meaningless , or incapable of conveying a message ; nor is it the case that such sentences never occur naturally . |
| 7 | Well that makes a kind of convenient break actually , because what I wanted to start on er then was things which really perhaps ought to be postponed till , till next . |
| 8 | I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions . |
| 9 | Not only is it ably led by the shrewd Gordon Taylor ( who perhaps ought to be running the FA ) , the players ' union also has a record which other unions would be proud of . |
| 10 | That this is so may at first appear disappointing . |
| 11 | Indeed one of the great worries that I have about life in general is the lack of growth which so may of our admirable people , particularly those who have not achieved educational qualifications , actually manage during their working lives . |
| 12 | That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ . |
| 13 | erm to this oh yes so I wanted a fiver out of it , who ever handed it in must of taken a fiver and gone off with it |
| 14 | This does not perhaps leave the section totally without point , in that by directing the board to consider the employees it might expand the cognitive basis of decision making and so might on occasion lead to a superior accommodation of employee interests within the traditional framework of shareholder supremacy . |
| 15 | You obviously could of got . |
| 16 | He alone could at once restore the unity of England and Normandy , which was important for many great families . |
| 17 | The figure I think that we , yes I wonder if Mrs Long could re to that particular question ? |
| 18 | I was still off the chain so could at least go to the little bathroom and fill the others ' water-bottles and empty their pee-bottles . |
| 19 | Twelve o'clock used to be a great well as far as I can remember . |
| 20 | I am so used to leaping from the sensation , the flat circle , to the judgement , a globe , and do it so quickly , that I do not notice I have done it . |
| 21 | And er well you go further through and you can go to the erm And the the Narrowmarsh it was narrow and all , you could shake hands with one another o off the but it now is all council houses is built down there now where they only used to be ordinary little houses . |
| 22 | It only used to be a penny . |
| 23 | They only used to ever lock the door from the outside and er I er had to make er fifty and as I say , number them one up to fifty and er then they 'd perhaps on a odd occasion they sent me an order for one , the number the number |
| 24 | Course i e , it 's very expensive now but it it only used to be about one and six a pound right up to the end of the war and it 's now two pounds a pound and |
| 25 | I mean it only , it only used to be like the The Plough and and The Bath and er New Inn and |
| 26 | I only used to a little bit of |
| 27 | Well apparently used to be trained . |
| 28 | We all used to be at the desk — four of us , plus Roy Thomas-Baker and Mike Stone — all six of us with fingers on the faders and sometimes we 'd work thirty-hour mixes ! |
| 29 | You know , it all used to be so simple . |
| 30 | We all used to be together on New Year 's Eve , did n't we , Dad ? ’ |