Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sums that will pass through them ought surely to enhance their prestige , and at a symbolic time . |
| 2 | Consequently , to maintain a constant level of satisfaction — or , what is the same thing , of dissatisfaction — with the health services , expenditure upon them ought relatively to increase somewhat in real terms . |
| 3 | but for some reason some of them may well lie within the |
| 4 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |
| 5 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 6 | The status of the pupils in the activity can be raised and the value of their contributions recognised by suggesting that some of them may already possess considerable information and experience ( pp. 36–38 ) . |
| 7 | There may be yet more complicated objects than us on other planets , and some of them may already know about us . |
| 8 | All of them add to the quality of life of the residents , and many of them may also help you enjoy your work too . |
| 9 | Some of them may also have a anti-radiation coating , or an anti-static lead . |
| 10 | Some of them may also have a anti-radiation coating , or an anti-static lead . |
| 11 | Now say that the applications are completely processor-independent too — that you do n't even have to re-compile them to move them from one machine type to another , and indeed bits of them may even wander from processor type to processor type in the course of execution . |
| 12 | Now say that the applications are completely processor-independent too — that you do n't even have to re-compile them to move them from one machine type to another , and indeed bits of them may even wander from processor type to processor type in the course of execution . |
| 13 | Female cats are such powerful breeding machines that some of them may even come into heat while they are pregnant . |
| 14 | Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo . |
| 15 | Not all the decisions in a given period can be carried out , since many of them may erroneously anticipate and depend upon other decisions which are in fact not being made . |
| 16 | Even if the technological aspects are fully understood , the application of the law to them may still perplex . |
| 17 | Doctors are themselves not immune from the disease of alcoholism and some of them may therefore give inappropriate reassurance to patients . |
| 18 | ‘ I know what you 'd like to do — and it may surprise you , Kit , if I admit that part of me may even want to myself . |
| 19 | There are also two paths , d and e , in figure 13.7 which represent the other unspecified causes ; all variables in a model which have causal paths leading to them must also have arrows reminding us of the proportion unpredicted by the model . |
| 20 | As a consequence the dinosaurs that preyed on them must also have grown bigger . |
| 21 | At the front of Laura 's mind constantly was the realization that these shops bore her name and everything in them must therefore reflect what she stood for . |
| 22 | But all of them must now align against the beast … |
| 23 | The choice between them should thus rest entirely on simplicity of key — the piece as a whole with all its modulations and sectional key-changes being taken into consideration . |
| 24 | I was more of an outsider than ever , but something in me must still have wanted to belong to the family because I was still making deliberate attempts to communicate with the other members . |
| 25 | Had things gone wrong with me , I may ultimately have been sent to prison . |
| 26 | ‘ Please honour me with your next command , that I may instantly leap to do your bidding . ’ |
| 27 | Anything that I may lawfully do I may also lawfully threaten to do , whatever the motive or purpose of my threat . |
| 28 | ‘ I may even give you some more . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I may even give you a bonus if Silvia does well in her exams . ’ |
| 30 | And I believe there 's some roadworks at Stafford , I might even get on my teletext and look and see what roadworks are on the M six , I may even give the A A a ring , to say , but it 's all on teletext and this sort of thing . |