Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That everyone ought to live on unsurfaced streets ? |
| 2 | She could go back to work , she supposed , only if she did that everyone would want to know why . |
| 3 | Er , of course er , Yeltsin does sometimes take own measures and that 's because the situation genuinely is very dangerous er and er , I think that everyone would agree that really . |
| 4 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
| 5 | You could n't go was er I 'm not going to recommend that everyone should go out and buy a dog . |
| 6 | So for example he 's Mill is very keen on the idea of local participation , that everyone should at some point in their lives play a role in local government in some level . |
| 7 | But what it meant is it got read , written into the constitution , it meant that everyone can buy a gun . |
| 8 | Yes that 's what I mean , I noticed that the man who did it balanced it rather nicely , he had some actors some politicians , that everyone can contribute especially in a . |
| 9 | By asking the question , ‘ How much would you like , given that everyone will be charged for the cost of providing public goods ? ’ society can come closer to providing the efficient quantities of public goods . |
| 10 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |
| 11 | And if either of these things happened to her then Odette and Liam would be separated and taken away to the work-house , Odette with her heart in pieces and her nerves in tatters , Liam retreating so far into that anxious silence of his that nothing would ever bring him out again . |
| 12 | Where a statutory authority is under a mandatory obligation to supply a service , whether with a saving or nuisance clause ( that nothing shall exonerate it from proceedings for nuisance ) or whether without such a clause , the authority is under no liability for anything expressly required by statute to be done , or reasonably incidental to that requirement , if it was done without negligence . |
| 13 | Common examples are general principles of reasoning , such as the law of non-contradiction ( that nothing can both be and not be ) , and the proposition that , if equals are taken from equals , then equals remain . |
| 14 | That nothing can stand in the way of |
| 15 | It 's not just that nothing can harm them ( that old suave illusion ) , but that nothing can harm anyone they care about either . |
| 16 | Oh yes yes we were told that nothing could be done about it . |
| 17 | And Hereford was so blocked that nothing could move . |
| 18 | Is it an affirmation of what his junior energy Minister says : that it will be acceptable for the Scottish Office to be staffed by Members from constituencies south of the border , or of what his Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Scotland have said in the past 24 hours : that nothing will happen , or is he considering the possibility of affording the Scottish people the right to determine their own future in a democratic fashion ? |
| 19 | The lasting impression of these accounts is that everyone agrees that there was a ‘ permissive age ’ , or a process of change that can be described as ‘ permissive ’ , but that no-one can actually agree what constituted ‘ permissiveness ’ . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , there is little I can do about it . |
| 21 | However , I think Steven Micklewright has summed up our concerns very ably , and there is little I can add at present . |
| 22 | ‘ Master Taplow , ’ he whispered , ‘ there is very little I can do for you except make sure the gaoler gives you your wine , pray for your speedy death and that in Purgatory Christ will have mercy on your soul . ’ |
| 23 | However , there seems to be very little I can do with it . |
| 24 | There is little I can say . |
| 25 | Until you have indicated that , there is little I can do . ’ |
| 26 | Lewis said : ‘ I was n't at Yarmouth and there is little I can say . |
| 27 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 28 | There was really very little I could do actively to refute the charge of selfishness . |
| 29 | I thought my eyes must be starting out of my head , too , but there was little I could do ; I was trying the best I could to think of something distracting to say to Eric . |
| 30 | ‘ There was little I could do to set her mind at rest except be myself , but I think they feel comfortable with me now . |