Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these areas may become blurred , he feels : for example , one feature of complementary medicine that patients may prefer is simply the longer consultations that its practitioners tend to give . |
| 2 | They can , what you should do is just drop the ladder in out , in the inside that 's all . |
| 3 | ‘ What you should do is simply stand on your feet and make sure you do n't commit yourself . |
| 4 | The rate of capillary movement in very fine pores is , however , so slow that the theoretical equilibrium height over which capillary rise should occur is rarely attained in such cases . |
| 5 | Therefore , the choice the Labour Party must face is either to transform its structure into a membership party of an equal democratic form , separate from ( but maintaining informal association with ) the trades unions , or to be stifled by its history , losing what may be the last opportunity to become a party of regeneration and progress . |
| 6 | Also the way in which he decides whether MD should die is very flippant . |
| 7 | The actual form that hospital provision should take is very much a controversial issue . |
| 8 | The formula for calculating how much additional pension based on your earnings you should get is fairly complicated , and the present formula will change in the future . |
| 9 | But it can be difficult to ascertain whether exchange rate pressure is temporary or permanent in nature ; consequently the decision when and to what degree the central monetary authority should intervene is largely a matter of judgement . |
| 10 | The ‘ walking/running speed ’ at which vehicles must travel is variously interpreted as up to 20 km/h , but evidence from early shared-space streets showed that this is exceeded by 85 per cent of the vehicles . |
| 11 | Thus the pressure , both inner and outer , on teachers to have a clear , articulate rationale for what they are doing is high at the same time as the exploration of the values from which such a rationale must derive is conspicuously out of style . |
| 12 | The argument over where control should reside is often based upon the criterion that an evaluation should be capable of suggesting appropriate remedies . |
| 13 | ‘ One thing they 'll think is really weird . |
| 14 | this is a structural change , what you could do or the easiest thing would be to do was just to incorporate a dummy variable , right , if you incorporated a dummy variable to a erm and to explain the and to take out the effect of structural change , right , er in that dummy inclusive model , right , all the diagnostic test statistics were okay , right , you would use , you would , therefore , use that , that particular model what we might do is just see if that is the case erm so if you come out of er diagnostics , work towards the data processing environment and generate a dummy variable right , so if you go into the erm data processing environment if it 's in the er sort of process plot option what we 'll do create a dummy variable call it D and let D pull zero press the return key and then edit D oh and if you just set erm observations for |
| 15 | Well what I might do is just put one soap in each cos it |
| 16 | Erm so erm what I 'll do is just indicate the amounts as they stand . |
| 17 | Now if you think you know what building or place is , put your hand up , but I think what we 'll do is actually let him get to the end of his description first . |
| 18 | he 's retired , but he 's , he 's been quite busy with this Festival , but I , I said to him , now what I 'll do is maybe come and you and him and Jane maybe kind of will just sort of have a quick confab sometime just talk about what he wants , and he will be kind of happy to do that with obviously we 'd have to find a drop of money to pay for the tapes , I mean that would n't be huge and expensive . |
| 19 | Okay well what we 'll do is home in on that . |
| 20 | As we have already discussed , bright light acts as a time-cue in humans and so might be helping patients not only because it fell in a critical period ( though how this might work is still not known ) , but in addition , or instead , because it adjusted the body clock and so removed a conflict of timing between the patient 's body clock and his sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 21 | But at the same time the number of available children with whom they might reside is much reduced by comparison , say , with the mid-nineteenth century , because of the reduction in the birth rate . |
| 22 | The order in which functional elements such as subject , predicator , and object may occur is more fixed in some languages than in others . |
| 23 | The other thing , which I think is a , another great misconception is er our present Prime Ministers ' policy of having a classless society , well I think the first thing is you could do is actually abolish the House of Lords and that will certainly be a start on having a classless society in this country . |
| 24 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 25 | They 're people who are pathetic , who are sad , who have had an awful lot of knocks in life and I often think that one of the things that everybody in society could do is actually talk to them a bit more . |
| 26 | I think we should therefore hold the fight until a clear pattern emerges and certainly avoid international incidents which might tempt the Red Army , either at Union level or in the Republics and finally I think perhaps one useful thing we could do is too assist initially , and I stress initially , well disposed Republics with bread and sausages . |
| 27 | What I 'd like is just a few regulars , that 'd come by appointment , like , so I could stay at home . |
| 28 | The only affect on the merger plan disgruntled stockholders , if there are any , could have is apparently to demand cash . |
| 29 | Which I 'd say is less useful in fact than the little ones . |
| 30 | He can not equate it with ‘ ought ’ since , according to him , to speak of what one ought to do is simply to speak of what will have the best consequences . |