Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may reawaken memories of happier times-'my husband would have done that in five minutes ' . |
| 2 | A friend failing to turn up for a date may reawaken deep-seated fears of abandonment . |
| 3 | The boy who has no dad , for instance , may paint dads all over the place ; the one with a new baby sister may leave her out altogether . |
| 4 | One : the gifts and calling of the Holy Spirit given that we may attain unity and maturity ( 4:1–16 ) . |
| 5 | It only has the force of a recommended practice whereas I believe it should have the full force of a standard , but at least it is there and perhaps in the fullness of time it may attain higher status . |
| 6 | At maximum it may attain magnitude 5 , but at minimum it falls to below 12 . |
| 7 | Mud volcanoes are rather more impressive features which may attain elevations of up to 100 m , eruptions of mud arising from the heating of shallow ground water . |
| 8 | The figures may be better , but a sense of directionless malaise in America may hurt Mr Bush harder . |
| 9 | We are sometimes scared that , if we tell the other person what we think , we may hurt that person . |
| 10 | You may hurt yourself when you hit the ground , or your opponent may be so close that he or she can hit you immediately . |
| 11 | It may hurt to hear accusing comments like this — for highly-charged emotions are often linked to equally-highly-charged events , or a series of events , from our past . |
| 12 | Do away with the brutality of the ‘ cat ’ , but keep the birch , which may hurt , which will not injure and which will bring ridicule on the person who receives it . |
| 13 | This may hurt a little bit . |
| 14 | When she touches me , I shall be hers for all time , and when she touches me , I shall be so hungry for her , that I may hurt her . |
| 15 | Yeah , I , you may laugh but you see if you 're writing stories for a , for a young child then you 've got to be explicit , you 've got to be colourful and you 've got to talk in a basic language that that child will talk that like that at that age . |
| 16 | ‘ You may laugh , Kit , but there are renegades , you know that , among the ruffians on Oualie … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You may laugh if you like . |
| 18 | The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook may laugh . |
| 19 | Oh , you may laugh , being as you are |
| 20 | You may laugh , but she was pretty , at least in my eyes . |
| 21 | It is a case of dramatic irony when we as readers recognize and share with the fabliau author a knowledge of the " realities " of the fictitious situation denied to the merchant of Orléans and may laugh at the merchant 's misguided belief as a result . |
| 22 | You may laugh at this rvolutionary theory BUT I speak from experience . |
| 23 | of the most outs , you may laugh , at least you stayed in |
| 24 | You may laugh , but already deposits worth £30,000 have been put down for the book and at least 5,000 people have telephoned bookshops to express an interest . |
| 25 | You may laugh ! |
| 26 | There are , for instance , mnemonic devices in oral cultures which offer some resistance to this process : ‘ formalised patterns of speech , recital under ritual conditions , the use of drums and other musical instruments , the employment of professional remembrancers — all such factors may shield at least part of the content of memory from the transmuting influence of the immediate pressures of the present ’ ( 1968 , p. 31 ) . |
| 27 | We have seen , for instance , that the magnitude of transaction costs in the market for control may shield all but the most egregious cases of management failure . |
| 28 | His view , however , is implicitly gradualist — ‘ a temporal progressive sequence of changes within an evolutionary lineage ’ — and there is no indication of the extensive palaeontological literature of the past decade suggesting an alternative punctuational view , that species may evolve relatively rapidly and then remain unchanged for long periods . |
| 29 | Prospects : A pattern which may evolve out of the failures above ; its failure , however , could produce a turning of the tables and the triumph of : |
| 30 | The Prisoners ' Dilemma is an interesting metaphor for the fundamental biological problem of how cooperative behaviour may evolve and be maintained ; alternative approaches involve , for example , studies of how the patchiness that can be created by limited dispersal or population ‘ viscosity ’ might favour the evolution of altruism through the elevation of inclusive fitness within kin groups . |