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learning > grammaire anglaise - niveau avancé
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The Guardian p. 1 11 January 2007
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/jan/11/
The Guardian p. 3 7 December 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/dec/07/
What Trump's Increasing Isolation Could Mean For His Presidency
August 19, 2017 7:00 AM ET NPR
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/19/
Scientists link plastic food containers with breast cancer
A chemical widely used in food packaging may be a contributing factor to women developing breast cancer, scientists have suggested.
Headline
and §1, G, 30.5.2005,
Decoded at last: the 'classical holy grail' that may rewrite the history of the world
Scientists begin to
unlock the secrets
For more than a century, it has caused
excitement and frustration in equal measure - a collection of Greek and Roman
writings so vast it could redraw the map of classical civilisation. If only it
was legible.
Headline, sub and first §§, IoS, 17.4.2005,
The true horror emerges
· Children may make up a third of dead, says UN · Disease could double toll
The death toll in the Asian tsunami disaster topped 60,000 last night, with world health chiefs warning that disease could kill as many people again if fresh water and medicine do not reach stricken areas soon.
Across the Indian Ocean rim, stories of
incredible devastation emerged as one of the largest and most complex relief
efforts ever undertaken swung into action. that at least a third of the victims across the region could be children. Carol Bellamy, executive director of Unicef, said: "We're concerned about providing safe water and preventing the spread of disease. For children, the next few days will be the most critical."
India's death toll of 11,500 included at least
7,000 on the Andamans and Nicobar archipelago. On one island, the surge of water
triggered by Sunday's undersea earthquake killed two-thirds of the population.
In Sri Lanka, the confirmed toll was 21,000 and rising, with another 2,000 in
the Tamil north. that it still had not heard from 19 inhabited islands and said there was a real danger some of its low-lying islands could be lost forever. British disaster assessment experts were on standby last night to fly there. (...) The World Health Organisation said the focus now should be on preventing the spread of disease, especially malaria and cholera. Dr David Nabarro, the WHO head of crisis operations, said: "There is certainly a chance that as many could die from communicable diseases as from the tsunami."
The true
horror emerges,
would could should may might mustépistémique / hypothétique
autres énoncés
Spiderman Stan Lee 18 September 2004 http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/spidermn/about.htm
Smoking ban 'would save 5,000 lives a year'
Banning smoking in public places could save more lives more quickly than the creation of a single new anti-cancer drug, campaigners said today.
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BNFL to continue releasing 'killer' gas
Subhead : Environment Agency accepts that Thorp reprocessing plant could be closed before it finds a way to control release of Krypton 85
BNFL
to continue releasing 'killer' gas,
Earth-like planet could harbour life
European scientists have found a planet circling a distant star that could be home to life. The planet, the first detected so far that is enough like Earth for life to develop, orbits a star called mu Arae in the southern constellation Altar. The planet - astronomers call such things exoplanets - is only 14 times the mass of Earth and, like Earth, could be composed of rock and support an atmosphere. Earth-like planet could harbour life, G, 31.8.2004, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/aug/31/ starsgalaxiesandplanets.spaceexploration
Paedophiles could be barred from net
Headline,
Prison suicide 'could have been avoided'
Headline,
Collision with comet may have hastened first plague epidemic
A collision between Earth and a passing comet in the 6th century AD may have caused the collapse of agriculture, mass famine and indirectly led to the bubonic plague in Europe, a study has suggested. Scientists have calculated that a relatively small comet, or fragment of a comet, could have caused huge amounts of dust and debris to be ejected into the atmosphere, blocking the sun for months at a time. The resulting crop failures and famine would have allowed bubonic plague to spread easily among a physically weakened population.
Headline and first
§§, I, 4.2.2004,
Britain should escape the worst of today's predicted gale force winds, but forecasters have warned that a storm tonight could be more severe than had been expected. Storms had been expected to hit southern England today, with forecasters originally predicting torrential rain and winds of up to 90mph. However, a spokesman for the Press Association said that there was now only a 40% chance that the UK would be affected by storms today. "There's a chance it might spin back up and hit the south-east of the country," he said. The storm is now expected to pass to the south, with the severe winds instead affecting the English Channel and northern France. UK set to miss worst of gales,G, 12.1.2004, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/jan/12/ weather.climatechange1
A knife-wielding murderer who targets lone women joggers in public parks could strike again, police in north London warned yesterday.
Women warned after
second park stabbing,
Al-Qa'ida may be poised to attack, US warns
Concern about aterror attack occurring in Saudi Arabia, possibly imminently, was growing yesterday as the United States issued a warning that it could happen as early as today.
Headline, §1, IoS, 26.10.2003,
Global warming could create 150 million environmental refugees - but the countries responsible are in no hurry to carry their share of the costs
Unnatural disasters,
Finally, consider the economic consequences in the US. A good war would obviously help President Bush, but maybe not as much as he expects. After a victory in Iraq, attention might quickly refocus on problems in the economy and Wall Street. Bush could still suffer the same fate as his father unless he can rapidly trigger a convincing recovery. A bad war would be almost as catastrophic for Bush as for Blair. The stock market and the economy would plunge, almost certainly triggering a double-dip recession. Fiscal policy would be unable to compensate, since Democrats would refuse to legislate tax cuts. The only recourse would be massive monetary easing, as recently suggested by the Federal reserve. The dollar would fall sharply. Meanwhile trade policy would lurch towards protectionism in response to domestic recession and Europe's perceived betrayal of the US. Export industries would be devastated around the world. Unemployment in continental Europe would rise to a level last seen in the 1930's. And who knows what "rough beast" might rise again? War could mean the end of the economic world, T, p. 27, 2 derniers §, 18.3.2003.
-> "rough beast" fait référence au poème de Yeats 'The second coming' :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Had Philippoussis nailed to serve at this juncture to take a 3-0 lead the Australian might have gone on to win the first set. Instead Federer forced him to volley long.
Federer finds steel to
galvanise his skill,
Heading for disaster ... biotechnology could bring death on a previously inconceivable scale
Caption,
Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) have been supplied with DIY pregnancy tests in case the enforced intimacy of space travel prompts mixed crews to try for the 200-mile-high club. The test sticks have been included in the station's medical pack in one of the first admissions that its astronauts might have sex in orbit.
Sex
in space:
As the crackle of anti-aircraft and machine-gun fire moved closer to the centre of Baghdad, it was clear that the battle was drawing nearer. It was also clear how it might go. The signs had been there since Saturday morning: a motorway on the southern extremities of Baghdad, dotted with the blackened carcasses of Iraqui army vehicles, gruesome souvenirs of the American army's brief jaunt through the suburbs.
'They
had cannon, rockets and faith.
'Decapitating' the regime may not end war quickly Headline, T, p. 10, 25.3.2003.
U.S. May Face Nuclear Blackmail Headline, NYT/Le Monde, p. 3, 16-7.3.2003.
Invasion May Be Al Qaeda's Best Recruiting Tool Headline, NYT/Le Monde, p. 1, 23-4.3.2003.
A meteor barrage may have led topréposition volcanic eruptions and the subsequent extinction of dinosaurs.
If the Meteors Didn't Get Dinosaurs, the Lava Did,
War could mean the end of the economic world Headline, T, p. 27, 18 March 2003.
As a social fund officer he had seen claimants by the thousand. (...) I had arranged a hypothetical interview with him to find out what the social fund would give me if I was down on my luck arriving in an empty council flat with few possessions I might be a woman fleeing a violent husband. I might be a refugee family. I might have had my home repossessed after losing my job and defaulting on my mortage. "How much can you give me to furnish my empty flat?" I begin. "Nothing at all".
The other side of the tracks,
Contexte :
la journaliste se fait passer pour une personne sans-abri, qui pourrait être une femme battue, réfugiée ou expulsée de sa maison.
Voir aussi > Anglonautes > Grammaire anglaise explicative - niveau avancé
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syntaxe > séquences hypothétiques > séquences avec auxiliaire modal, séquences avec auxiliaire non modal
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passé temporel, "passé" hypothétique
reprise de may par might / could
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