Example sentences of "[verb] [modal v] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is tempting to sit on your backside at the hut on a hot afternoon but an hour 's reconnoitre may repay its effort many times over . |
| 2 | It ranks high among those topics which you fear may bore your listeners , but which , secretly , you take very seriously . |
| 3 | Anyone who thinks they may have become liable to tax since they registered should tell their bank or building society to cancel the registration as soon as possible . |
| 4 | The menus listed should satisfy your appetite . |
| 5 | Many have been taught that in a relationship they have no right to make demands on a partner ; to say clearly what they want may lose his affection . |
| 6 | The Bar code of conduct requires that those who appear should use their powers as responsibly as the interests of justice may reasonably allow . |
| 7 | I dare n't sing — people who 've already booked might cancel their Access — and I do n't know which sketch would compress into the thirty-four seconds I 'll undoubtedly be granted . |
| 8 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 9 | The reset switch is a little large for my money , but , being well labelled , it is unlikely that accidental resets would dog its user . |
| 10 | In any event most ear , nose , and throat departments have a review facility whereby patients whose symptoms had spontaneously resolved would have their operations postponed . |
| 11 | We can only ask ourselves more questions , and the answers we supply will reflect our own psychology . |
| 12 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup ( Mr. Heath ) echoed Harold Macmillan 's theme when he spoke to the House on 28 October 1971 : ’ I can not over-emphasise the importance the scale and quality of the decision whether we are going to decide that Western Europe should now move along the path to real unity our decision tonight will vitally affect the sort of world in which we British people and many generations to come will live their lives ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's another legacy of £1,000 , this time to his friend Martin Burger , ‘ more than enough for that new pair of spectacles which I hope may improve his judgement and help him to see the obvious . ’ |
| 14 | A tube of Winsor blue for Alan Tate , spectacles for Burger … ‘ which I hope may improve his judgement and help him to see the obvious . ’ |
| 15 | And with the recession now biting into the music industry , one desperate insider said this week : ‘ We have a wish-list of people we hope might pop their clogs before Christmas . ’ |
| 16 | And ironically , the countries that Le Sentier 's businessmen worry might undercut their production are often the very places sans-papiers come from in their search for jobs . |
| 17 | These can be summarized as the desire to achieve mass mobilization and the disruption of feudalism through land reform which the Party believed would ensure their political stability in power as well as contributing to the eventual realization of socialism . |
| 18 | Its regime — which Prince Philip believed would turn his sons into real men — had caused Charles untold misery and damage . |
| 19 | To halt would break its perfection . |
| 20 | I hoped the service we had just attended would ensure his continued safe landfalls from ‘ out there ’ . |
| 21 | Mrs Hamilton was n't confident that the agency nurses she interviewed would respect her desire for confidentiality on the subject . |
| 22 | Doc Threadneedle had warned her that the alterations he had made would affect her mind , so she could be confused without realizing it . |
| 23 | Your offer of employment was accepted on the terms of the contract agreed that if my figures attained would reach your targets I could earn twenty five thousand per annum minimum . |
| 24 | They are entitled to legal representation on their own behalf and any solicitor they appoint will represent their interests in the proceedings . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Cray Research and AEG AG subsidiary , Modular Computer Systems Inc , Fort Lauderdale , Florida , have signed an agreement under which ModComp will license its Real/IX real-time Unix operating system technology to Cray . |
| 27 | So I 've brought something which I hope will give her good news as well . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the cleaners have a nintety day redundancy period , during which time they 'll be waiting to hear from the firms which they hope will become their new employers . |
| 29 | You must also buy a copy of Debrett and familiarize yourself with the names of those people in society we hope will become our clients . |
| 30 | The continuing debate about choosing and using ultraviolet ( UV ) pond systems has prompted me to write and highlight some points which I hope will help your readers make a more informed decision when purchasing a system . |