Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to examine to what extent such travel is localised or may require modelling over the conurbations as a whole . |
| 2 | That the Director of Public Prosecutions did not press for prosecution suggests that this line of defence might have been effective , or might have resulted in the prosecution net catching even larger , embarrassed fish . |
| 3 | It is unrealistic to assume that all the Palestinians currently living in the Arab states , whether still in refugee camps or integrated into their host society , could or would want to return to a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state . ’ |
| 4 | Erm , now bearing in mind that half the year has gone , or will have gone by the time anybody arrived here , erm it seemed to me that where I , my analysis of that situation was that if we were going to achieve our target times , erm , then the theory would seem to be that we ought to make , er , two appointments now , I E two appointments for half the year will be equivalent to one appointment for the year , and that will produce the number of investigative hours which roughly that the formula says we need to knock off the required number of complaints in the required number of times . |
| 5 | And let's get rid of the powder . |
| 6 | But individual speakers do have control over their own pitch , and may choose to speak with a higher than normal pitch ; this is something which is potentially of linguistic significance . |
| 7 | I am considering all the things now that I was then and may try to qualify for the US Senior Tour in November . |
| 8 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 9 | In drug addiction and in the eating disorders the processes may be even slower because the drugs or the distorted eating pattern may cause more confusion and damage to thought processes and also because the sufferers may be young and may need to live through the emotional pain of adolescence that is necessary for maturity and which they earlier avoided by recourse to mood-altering chemicals , substances or behaviour . |
| 10 | This discussion should include other professionals in the multidisciplinary team and may need to start with a recognition of their own feelings , before meeting with the old person concerned . |
| 11 | The road leading south from the crossroads seems to have followed the course of the modern road and may have led to the south-west corner of the Labyrinth 's West Court , where a part of an access road has been exposed . |
| 12 | The divisions amongst the Christians weakened their power of resistance and may have contributed to the Ottoman victories of the sixteenth century . |
| 13 | Despite these efforts , erosion losses remain excessive and may have increased during the 1970s [ and this trend ] may continue indefinitely into the future . ’ |
| 14 | They point out : ‘ During the first year or so , you will have to work long and unsociable hours and may have to go without a holiday or make other sacrifices . ’ |
| 15 | But Mr Rafsanjani is exposed to accusations that he is departing from the policies set out by the leader of Iran 's Islamic revolution , the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and may have seized on the Mujahideen attacks to demonstrate that he is not selling out the imam 's legacy . |
| 16 | This may be reflected in the faunal changes and may have brought to an end the stable conditions represented by the pure quartzites that extend all the way from the Welsh borderland to Morocco . |
| 17 | But the r and K lines were cultured at different densities , so that selection on life-history traits other than late fecundity may also have differed between them and may have accounted for the decline in late fertility of the r -line females . |
| 18 | He accepted Christianity when the missionary Poppo proved the efficacy of the Christian god by undergoing the ordeal of carrying hot iron , and may have entered into a subordinate relationship with the German emperor Otto I. However , he rebelled after Otto 's death in 973 , and the following year was defeated at the Danevirke , a Danish defensive rampart in southern Jutland connected to the east with the important town of Hedeby . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , no measures were taken against him at the Restoration , suggesting perhaps that he had not been a republican by choice and may have worked towards the return of Charles II . |
| 20 | However , NATO would remain a defensive alliance and must continue to provide for the common defence , while enhancing its political component . |
| 21 | Besides , say the Liberal Club 's supporters , Civic Forum has a responsibility to carry out its programme and must continue to function until the next general election , in less than two years ' time . |
| 22 | They conform to the same technical rules as ports de bras and must appear to pass through the centre line of the arm from shoulder to finger-tips and move within the two circles drawn by the elbows and hands . |
| 23 | The female cuckoo can mimic only one type of egg and must try to lay in a nest of this species if her offspring is to have a good chance of survival . |
| 24 | Before Morris introduced this type of maze , it had become common practice to study spatial learning in a more conventional version of the same task , in which rats are placed in various forms of radial mazes with four , six or eight arms , and must learn to run to a goal box containing food or water at the end of one of the arms . |
| 25 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 26 | Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain . |
| 27 | It read , ‘ LNWR-BOILERHOUSE-PRIVATE ’ , and must have come off the boilerhouse door . |
| 28 | Then one of her aides came along and must have thought from the name Adams that I was a nationalist . |
| 29 | The rate of disconnections fell by nearly 50% , and should continue to fall over the next six months . |
| 30 | Against Tipperary , Galway showed superb resilience and determination , quenching the fire and verve of Babs ' Keating 's side to such an extent that they could and should have won by a much greater margin . |