Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three quarks inside a proton normally do not have enough energy to change into antielectrons , but very occasionally one of them may acquire sufficient energy to make the transition because the uncertainty principle means that the energy of the quarks inside the proton can not be fixed exactly . |
| 2 | The French education system has had many of the features now introduced into the British system for more than a century and studying them may shed some light on future possibilities for schooling in this country . |
| 3 | Indeed , one of them may get more information out of it than the author realised he was putting into it . |
| 4 | Hyphenating them may overcome this problem . |
| 5 | I mean I know there 's always an argument , especially here in Oxford , that people just come , look round the colleges and they 're gone again , but having said that some of them must spend some money . |
| 6 | She 'll want at least another three watch-keepers , and preferably two of them must understand celestial navigation . |
| 7 | Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry . |
| 8 | Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry . |
| 9 | If I may make one suggestion to the South Africans that is meant to be helpful , it is this : call on Bob Burrows , the ITV producer who was in charge of the Rugby World Cup in this country , and invite him to be your consultant . |
| 10 | Someday I may meet another mammoth . |
| 11 | Please can you tell me where I may purchase some dog 's tooth violets . |
| 12 | If he stims me much more , I know that I may seek such stimming again , however unwillingly . |
| 13 | Steve and I may see each other six times a week if we 're racing . |
| 14 | I may gain more acceptance . |
| 15 | I may have the gift of inspired preaching ; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets ; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains — but if I have no love , I am nothing . |
| 16 | Hence , I may have great difficulty in answering a relatively simple question like ‘ Why do you put so much energy into your career ? ’ and I would have even more difficulty in deciding how much energy 1 should put into my career and how much into my family . |
| 17 | I may have more luck . ’ |
| 18 | I wo n't write a word more now , but go to my work , cool down , go out , and in the evening post this letter with proofs of my regret , though not recantation , and also proofs of some joy or success I may have this afternoon in fields now rejoicing in sunshine after rain , — to delight my own sweet little one , too tolerant , too childishly submissive , not by nature , which would be weak , but by love for me , which is strength . |
| 19 | But a mathematician should be taught to try to take me with him , so that I may have some appreciation of what he is doing , and why he enjoys doing it . |
| 20 | ‘ I may have another drink , I may not , ’ Newman replied , looking at Corduroy Jacket . |
| 21 | ‘ Thee I invoke , oh our Emperor , ’ he prayed , the formula glowing neon in his mind 's eye , ‘ that thou wilt infuse these cards this hour ; that thereby I may obtain true insight of things hidden , to thy glory and to the salvation of humanity — ’ |
| 22 | The Government have cut unemployment benefit 11 times since 1979 , making a cumulative ’ saving ’ — if I may use that word — at the expense of the unemployed , of £5 billion to £6 billion over the past decade . |
| 23 | In other words , these things I 've been talking about , map , if I may use that concept again from mathematics , they map to earlier feelings . |
| 24 | Is my hon. Friend — if I may use that term — sure that a solution put forward in this House would be accepted in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic ? |
| 25 | This is only a reflection of larger areas of the church above , that 's if I may use that phrase , which is happening . |
| 26 | The confusion yields when we realize that we have to do with a limited area , however large , and that the ‘ unionists ’ , if I may use this term , made the mistake of extrapolating the ambiguity and interchangeability within this limited area to the whole scope of Mozart 's staccato notation . |
| 27 | ‘ In only the broadest and I may say sloppiest usage of the term would this obsessive little undeadnik be counted as a dybbuk . |
| 28 | He is if I may take this question of the appointment of the independent members , he has certainly separated himself directly from their appointment by having this regional instrument . |
| 29 | Before the hon. Gentleman moves on from his point about the proposal to locate the health common services authority in the old BBC offices at Gabalfa , perhaps I may take some credit for that not having come to pass . |
| 30 | ‘ I must finish this letter . |