Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , so let's explain why we can help Peter . |
| 2 | However the type of relationships you have may affect how you view safer sex . |
| 3 | ‘ Let's think how they worked that one . ’ |
| 4 | So one may experience variously what may be called ‘ Radio 2–1970s-disco-feel ’ music , or heavy rock , or traditional hymnody , or 1960s jazz-band music . |
| 5 | It fears that may rule out anyone planning to stay with relatives or friends . |
| 6 | The accelerated gastric emptying of both liquids and solids in the patients with idiopathic DU may explain why their ulcer disease was more difficult to control with antisecretory agents and the use of pharmalogical agents to delay gastric emptying might be helpful . |
| 7 | A comparison with pictures may explain why it could be more effective to modify exact sound-symbol relationships with rule-based conventions in spelling . |
| 8 | In other words Africa may have remained close to the region of major sub-lithospheric heating which preceded the breakup of Pangaea and this may explain why it has a high mean elevation today in spite of lacking significant orogenic belts . |
| 9 | It may explain why he is making such a mess of the job . |
| 10 | As a result he is very fat and suffers from constant agony due to chronic indigestion , which may explain why he is so fierce . |
| 11 | While Dawkins can not be blamed for it , modern enthusiasm for the ‘ enterprise society ’ may explain why his parable of selfish genes has commonly been elided with the selfish intentions of individuals . |
| 12 | Therefore , spreads are of little importance for index futures , and this may explain why there have been only three empirical studies of the pricing of spreads in index futures . |
| 13 | His reference to faith may explain how it is that he is able to conceive of the notion of absolute Truth which he calls God . |
| 14 | That may cover almost anything , indeed F W Maitland said that ‘ there is hardly any department of law which does not , at one time or another , become of constitutional importance . ’ |
| 15 | Apart from the three subjects intensively taught , pupils may make up their timetables with scraps of non-examined , and therefore non-serious , odds and ends . |
| 16 | The point is of some importance since a number of rules of procedure are growing to be applicable to Cabinet Committees and we ought to know where there is a real , useful distinction or whether it is merely the pragmatical difference that some are serviced by the Cabinet Office and some are not . |
| 17 | I 'm saying is , is you ought to get very close to that geographical map because it 's the logistic logistics er difficulty with getting , and you ought to know where there are mountains and where there are valleys and the fact that that , in South Wales they ca n't just go across country , they have to go back down the valley after the M four and up again . |
| 18 | I 've always felt that he ought to know how I 'm feeling — to realise that I 've got problems too . |
| 19 | Obviously we can not know the outcome of a new project , so let's consider how we might have proceeded 31 years ago . |
| 20 | ‘ Come on then , let's hang up your coat and go from there , ’ Natasha proposed . |
| 21 | Where the reference was automatic ( £1,000 or less only being involved ) Ord 19 , r 6 provides that no solicitors ' charges or litigant in person costs may be awarded except the costs which were stated on the summons or which would have been stated on the summons if the claim had been for a liquidated sum , the costs of enforcing the award , and such further costs as the arbitrator may direct where there has been unreasonable conduct on the part of the opposite party in relation to the proceedings or the claim therein . |
| 22 | Quantum mechanically we may know either its position or its momentum but not both . |
| 23 | Or he may know exactly what he 's doing — and be doing it for reasons his companions know nothing of , his meaning anything but benevolent . |
| 24 | he may know when it 's likely to come |
| 25 | I would like to take you , stage by stage , through a typical case so that you may know precisely what to expect in both present-life and past-life regression . |
| 26 | " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like . |
| 27 | I was wondering if we ought to find out who 's decided to start using it again , and whether they really checked , I have been told they check on the source , but it 's like we 're slipping back gradually , and I thought if we said , if we pledged that we 're going to boycott timber , we should really keep to it unless we make a decision |
| 28 | Yeah , but I really ought to find out his surname . |
| 29 | Chantal flashed D'Arcy a reproving glance , but Roquelaure continued as though he had not heard : ‘ We must think where it leaves the French Government , Rober' . |
| 30 | They remind us that this is the very beginning of the idea of representing the world about us as it actually appears ; that we must think away our hindsight and remember that these artists could not see the way ahead . |