Example sentences of "a [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are a countryman , you may sit by a stream and contemplate a may tree just coming into blossom , or climb up on the ramparts of an iron age hill fort and let your soul soar with the wind . |
| 2 | What about a let's have one more , A minor sixth ? |
| 3 | We have , I believe the most active Architecture Centre in Europe where it is not only a must but an honour for the world 's leading architects to lecture or exhibit . |
| 4 | is an externalist conception , because condition 4 is one which a might be entirely incapable of recognizing or pointing to when asked whether he does know that p . |
| 5 | She was short-sighted a could not see into the auditorium . |
| 6 | Perhaps a could be arbitrarily chosen for the purpose . |
| 7 | well it , it could cause the many a could n't it ? |
| 8 | It would n't be mine , but it 's better than having a could , why did n't you just get a little false tooth like the girl did ? |
| 9 | but I think that a sort of , the time we have perhaps on a could be used a lot more constructively . |
| 10 | Yes cross is a 'd be a good one to learn there . |
| 11 | I du n no it was a dare I think . |
| 12 | The amount of information you received was strictly on a need to know basis . |
| 13 | Erm or a ca n't . |
| 14 | No , it 's a ca n't be in the garden , can he . |
| 15 | and she said I do n't like to tell time , she kept going , looking at me with a ca n't believe how stupid you are |
| 16 | Or a lousy hairbrush and a ca n't even remember what the present was , it was enthralling ! |
| 17 | Just as well as a ca n't fi , throw it over my shoulder ! |
| 18 | Any sector which is less favoured or more favoured as a result of a shall I say a generalized overview on agricultural land quality ? |
| 19 | Shall I get a shall I ? |
| 20 | Just the wrong amount for a Shall we go and see what Terry and Lindsey are doing ? |
| 21 | PI : Locks Warranty : In addition to withdrawing keys from locks , the keys must now also be placed where they can not be seen by a would be thief . |
| 22 | The new measurement of a would be independent of previous techniques and potentially more accurate ( New Scientist , vol 93 , p 572 ) . |
| 23 | Figure 5 b shows how the system of Fig. 5 a would appear to an observer located at the Sun if the line-of-sight makes an angle of 16° with the major axis of the bar : this is the configuration that gives the best agreement with the data . |
| 24 | Nozick suggests that the reason why we take the justified true beliefs in those examples not to have been known is that a would have believed them even if they had been false . |
| 25 | Nozick takes it therefore that for a to know that p we require that a would not have believed that p if p had been false . |
| 26 | if p were not true , a would not believe that p . |
| 27 | The first is that if it were false , a would still believe it ; we have dealt with this already by the addition of clause 3 . |
| 28 | 4 if , in changed circumstances , p were still true , a would still believe that p . |
| 29 | The suggestion there was that we derive the account of justification from that of knowledge , thus : a is justified in believing p iff in certain circumstances a would know that p . |
| 30 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |