Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] the [noun sg] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 Excavation of sand and gravel may scar the landscape but it does increase habitats for wildlife .
2 The record of a system should describe the system as it is actually used rather than the form in which it was originally intended to be used .
3 There is a serious question as to how reasonably you should fund the deficit and it is all very well to criticise this suggestion as to how the a gap should filled without making any sensible suggestions of your own and Mr Brown , nice Mr Brown so far
4 The person who has that number must catch the plate before it stops spinning .
5 Ideally , risk and responsibility should be apportioned together because the party who is responsible for performing a task should carry the risk if it is carried out incorrectly .
6 The recruiting office should advertise the fact that it welcomes members of the public who wish to drop in .
7 The authority should advertise the fact that it is prepared to give talks and attend events which are directed at appealing to these groups .
8 The LIFESPAN Manager must stop the process if it is still active and then preserve the contents of the process log file .
9 He must unstop the sink when it is blocked by his waste .
10 Suffice it to say that , after referring to the ‘ extraordinary , and perhaps unique , jurisdiction of the Visitors to the Inns of Court , ’ he found that the judges possessed a residual jurisdiction by which , in an exceptional case , they might remit a matter to an Inn and direct it to reconsider , with the Inns ' Council and the Bar Council , what ought to be the criteria by which they should judge the question before it determined the application afresh .
11 ‘ He must tell the judiciary that it was this accountant Morris who abused the trust the firm showed in him . ’
12 But surely Michael Banks 's death must end the run before it had even started ; Apparently not , according to the show 's producer , Paul Lexington . ’
13 But Coun Susan Latter said they should support the application as it was part of the local industry .
14 He certainly felt that the culture of the state should reflect the fact that it was 93 per cent Roman catholic .
15 So the medical profession , in the future as in the past , must bear the responsibility unless it is possible to obtain a decision from the courts .
16 Where the court is satisfied that there is an administrative receiver of the company , the court must dismiss the petition unless it is also satisfied as to certain other matters which are referred to in section 9(3) .
17 And they 'll like the fact that it 's a Prince of Ireland who has been sent to talk to them . ’
18 So the only place to put such a black hole , in which one might use the energy that it emitted , would be in orbit around the earth — and the only way that one could get it to orbit the earth would be to attract it there by towing a large mass in front of it , rather like a carrot in front of a donkey .
19 ‘ I 'll miss the involvement but it 's too important for England to qualify for the World Cup finals to take any chances . ’
20 and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm .
21 And surely I 'll hear the lift if it brings my inquisitor up ?
22 But it is possible that the length of the delay in service of the order , coupled with the other circumstances of a particular case , might justify the conclusion that it would be an injustice to the contemnor to continue his incarceration .
23 Your consent is required before we can apply for a report and you may see the report before it is returned to us .
24 Your consent is required before we apply for a report and you may see the report before it is returned to us .
25 What incidental properties of the clay could influence the likelihood that it , the same variety of clay , would be propagated around the countryside ?
26 Later that same month he forwarded a copy of a declaration in favour of arbitration signed by Nonconformist ministers so that the Foreign Secretary could approve the wording before it was sent .
27 This , of course , demonstrated to tribespeople that the Russians understood their ways , and that either side could break the agreement if it were expedient to do so .
28 He could feel the blood as it pounded there .
29 Its breathing was too light to move the flanks , so I 'd go over sometimes and put the back of my hand to its nostril until I could feel the heat as it exhaled .
30 All I saw was he was tall one I never saw I could see the impression and it was like four stars .
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