Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , chances are you have a serious drinking problem , or may have one in the future . |
| 2 | So appraisal has , or should have nothing to do with what the tabloid press likes to call ‘ weeding out ’ . |
| 3 | The objection in one audacious form is that science has or should have nothing to do with causation . |
| 4 | Or , like the note from a sick friend sent to the about-to-be-murdered Mrs Abby Borden of Fall River , it might mean something or might mean nothing at all . |
| 5 | What will or would cause something is not a cause , but only a possible cause or potential cause , until or unless the effect actually occurs . |
| 6 | Whether she 'd be alone , or would have someone waiting . |
| 7 | I do n't know if umm Jeff or , would know anybody or can do anything with this . |
| 8 | Hand-cutting of hay by scythe is almost a thing of the past , as people either have their own tractor-driven machines or can hire someone to do the job . |
| 9 | If you run a dog-friendly establishment — or can recommend one — please write to us with full details . |
| 10 | Short-term gains by cheating are likely to be offset by long-term losses that may affect one 's offspring and those of relatives . |
| 11 | For those not familiar with the effects of earth energy lines , Mr Heye sent further documentation with his letter that listed some of the tell tale signs that may show someone is suffering from bad earth vibes . |
| 12 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 13 | erm To what extent do you rely on measurements , as it were , and to what erm extent do you rely on actual observations , because it seems to me that there 's a , at least a possibility that you may have a whole sort of set of measurements that may indicate something 's going to happen , but if you actually stuck your head out of the window and looked up you could see it was actually raining instead of sunny ? |
| 14 | School photographs of Rainbow in every age from perky to petulant , pictures of her with Naomi , Mary-Catherine and various unknowns , and-I 'll bet anything — at least one of Rainbow with the unsound sound woman , yesterday 's love . |
| 15 | We do not distinguish experiences from non-experiences as we might distinguish oranges from apples , viz. by indicating certain characteristics that might enable anyone , including those who have never tasted either fruit , to tell one from the other . |
| 16 | ‘ We do n't like anything that might give someone the idea to stick a poor fish in beer . |
| 17 | Checking that the straps on her equipment were tight enough to prevent anything moving and making a noise that might alert anyone nearby , Ace slipped through a stand of bushes to get a better view of the road . |
| 18 | There 's not many men who are n't even relations that 'd give someone a record player for a wedding present . ’ |
| 19 | None of the combinations of possible future events meant anything at all , nor could mean anything until somebody caught up with Vecchi . |
| 20 | Some 35% of us weigh over 10% more than we should — for a woman of average height and build that could mean anything from 12lb to 3 or more stone . |
| 21 | RCA , in particular , using a non-laser disc system , found that linear movies on disc were simply not sufficiently attractive to consumers to encourage them to buy hardware systems that could do nothing else than playback such movies . |
| 22 | Peter had grown afraid of emotion ; he considered it messy stuff that could lead one into a fatal labyrinth of self-forgetfulness . |
| 23 | and anything that could identify anyone is taken out . |
| 24 | Anything , anything would make death tolerable , she thought , anything that could admit something of the grand somewhere , and not this small cramped sitting room , this domestic duplicity , this pouring of cups of tea , these harshly unaltered faces . |
| 25 | See the roller smooth tyres wheels that could pull nothing up there . |
| 26 | Masters of their art , Stock , Aitken and Waterman realised that day they had unearthed a talent that could outshine anything , even in their empire . |
| 27 | They merely assumed that inhibition generates the incest taboo without pointing to any behavioural mechanism that could translate one into the other . |
| 28 | It 's an injury that could disable somebody for life . |
| 29 | More expensive labour , the reasoning ran , would force the shutdown of sweat-shops , leaving only those businesses that could add plenty of value . |
| 30 | The only thing that could get one down — as it eventually did his American television followers — was his high-pitched , breathless , Scots delivery . |