Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet at a time when the rest of the industrialized world is moving towards a forty hour week , women , many of whom may work at least eighty hours per week , are encouraged to regard this as not being work . |
| 2 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 3 | Syllabuses and those who frame them may talk of ‘ all round education ’ but schools are in no doubt about their curriculum priorities . |
| 4 | High welfare benefits may attract electoral support from the recipients , but the high taxes to pay for them may lead to electoral unpopularity with the wider population ; balancing the two is a difficult political act . |
| 5 | Failure to observe them may result in the withdrawal of occupational sick pay and/or statutory sick pay . |
| 6 | While generally true this does not solve the difficulty in the case of John and Ruth since each of them may claim to be both a theoretical and a practical authority . |
| 7 | Two of them may fall to Labor . |
| 8 | The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install . |
| 9 | Again , some of these processes occur in normal adolescence and indeed even all of them may occur in some people in the absence of drug use , although this is improbable . |
| 10 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 11 | It is all so much work and nothing may come of it . |
| 12 | I mean it could be nothing may happen at all may descend on us and everybody 's and we 've run out of money . |
| 13 | Yet everyone may come into contact with the mentally handicapped at some stage in their lives ; indeed any one of us may be accidentally brain damaged . |
| 14 | Phil is an ardent Stoke City supporter and season ticket holder and colleagues joked me may need to ‘ get away from it all ’ as he is still trying to shrug off his team 's F.A . |
| 15 | She was awakened in the mornings by cocks crowing , and it was so quiet in the evenings it seemed everyone must go to bed before dark . |
| 16 | Everyone must decide for himself . |
| 17 | Everyone must worry about the group dynamics . |
| 18 | In 1856 French secretaries of embassy and legation were divided into three classes and it was ordered that no one was to reach the third and lowest class without having already served as an attaché for three years , while everyone must spend at least three more in each class before being promoted to a higher one . |
| 19 | A S EVERYONE must know by now , 1992 marks the 40th anniversary of H M The Queen 's accession to the throne . |
| 20 | This month , everyone must write about this ; next month , nobody is allowed to write about that . |
| 21 | The letter " 0 " has many lines of symmetry though all of them must pass through the centre of the letter . |
| 22 | Yet both of them must come into contact with the same assortment of germs and viruses in their daily lives . |
| 23 | The legacies of these origins have persisted and there has never been agreement on the nature of international affairs , on the proper methods for studying them , or on the range of elements which theories of them must take into account . |
| 24 | In a way , failure to come through with the right steps is deception , because most social interaction is based on expectations of behaviour and to set up expectations and then thwart them must qualify as deception . |
| 25 | On telephoning the surgery , I discovered that before a cremation can take place the death certificate has to be signed by two doctors — one of whom must come from outside the area . |
| 26 | ‘ Every day everyone should eat at least one broad-leafed vegetable . ’ |
| 27 | This is not the most Basque part of the Basque country because it is too built-up and , in the case of Biarritz , too chic ; but everyone should go at least to Saint-Jean-de-Luz , emphatically a Basque town and still in living touch with the ocean of which , as fishermen or on occasion as pirates , the Basques were for long leading citizens . |
| 28 | All political parties are agreed that everyone should pay towards council services if they can afford it . |
| 29 | It is one of Robin Child 's primary aims that everyone should learn to be visually literate , to learn to read a picture as they would a book . |
| 30 | Not everyone should wait until the standard age to retire . |