Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( h ) Windows The lease should make clear whether windows are included in or excluded from the demise , especially where the responsibility for repair is divided between landlord and tenant ( Reston v Hudson [ 1990 ] 2 EGLR 51 ) . |
| 2 | Publicity material should make clear when staff will be available . |
| 3 | It was unthinkable that the BBC should do other than support its own government . |
| 4 | The Security Council has wisely ruled out the death penalty , however much it might seem justified as retribution . |
| 5 | Hopefully it 'll get noisy when premiership action draws close . |
| 6 | I have to warn the Chancellor that there is a widespread belief that he is not at all likely to take the measures that might prove necessary if intervention is insufficient to stem severe downward pressure on sterling in the coming months . |
| 7 | Quite often , they 'll sit idle if people find them too complex to use properly . |
| 8 | That may sound mercenary because Chris knows the rest of his career is limited , but it will be fun for people watching ! |
| 9 | Clearly , a company 's senior executives may become lethargic where shareholder pressure is lacking , and profitability is likely to be prejudiced where incompetent directors are effectively unremovable . |
| 10 | In the area of competition and canvassing there are three general headings under which the courts will examine the existence of reasonableness of a restraint : 4.1 Restricted activities If the employer seeks by contractual restraint to restrict the activities of a former employee by proscribing the types of business in which the employee may become engaged once employment is over then he can only do so if he can establish a close connection betwee the restriction and the work done by the employee prior to leaving . |
| 11 | The communiqué stressed the urgency of securing international commitments " to control the adverse effects of climate change " ( an issue of particular concern to those low-lying islands such as Tuvalu , Kiribati and some of the Marshall Islands which could become submerged if ocean levels rose as a result of the " greenhouse effect " ) . |
| 12 | For instance , landfill sites engineered into raised marine deposits could become waterlogged as groundwater levels rose with the rise in sea level : the resulting pollution of groundwater could be severe . |
| 13 | For instance , landfill sites engineered into raised marine deposits could become waterlogged if groundwater levels rose with the rise in sea level : the resulting pollution of groundwater could be severe . |
| 14 | The report says that the economic value of the oil and gas field could become uncertain if electricity generating companies are forced to use more British coal . |
| 15 | Anyone accidentally injecting themselves could become ill as Simon Garrett reports |
| 16 | Illness or disease could result from ignoring such strictures and cattle could become ill if stones from an ancient site were incorporated into the walls of their shelter . |
| 17 | The situation was such that even Minton could become fussed if Vaughan made first use of Ricky 's Daily Mirror . |
| 18 | Pundits of the travel scene were heard suggesting ( and exaggerating ) that as many as 200 to 300 travel firms could go bankrupt if things went badly . |
| 19 | Official results were not due until mid-July , but unofficial returns suggested that the distribution of seats in the 109-member National Parliament would be as follows : Pangu Pati ( PP ) 22 seats , People 's Democratic Movement ( PDM ) 15 , People 's Action Party ( PAP ) 13 , People 's Progress Party ( PPP ) 10 , Melanesian Alliance nine , League of National Advancement ( LNA ) five , National Party two , Melanesian United Front ( MUF ) one , others one , and independents 30 ; one seat would remain vacant because voting was delayed by the death of a candidate . |
| 20 | The notion of a lead agency with overall responsibility for developing services or for buying in the necessary services from local statutory , private or voluntary agencies would make clear where responsibility should lie . |
| 21 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 22 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 23 | The way I would possibly define active and reactive , I would see active as things that actually take your department forward a step . |
| 24 | For example , when the State Department 's Far Eastern Office was trying , unsuccessfully , to put together a compromise paper that would be agreed with the European Office , one may applaud the objective of an Indo-China that was to be fully self-governed , autonomous , and democratic : but there was a world of difference between a ‘ national ’ and a ‘ federal ’ government which would become obvious as events unfolded and the qualification , which Moffat and his colleagues seemed to accept , to full self-government which was explicit in Indo-China 's recommended partnership in the French Union , and was , by implication reserved to France as a matter of imperial concern , precisely the point , or at least the formality , which produced the irreparable break between France and Ho 's infant Republic . |
| 25 | I shall vote Tory because Robin Cook |
| 26 | I shall vote Tory because Labour would |
| 27 | And everyone expected things would get nasty once Zhdanov 's famous article * appeared . |
| 28 | The traditional rose bed , strictly excluding all other plants , may seem extravagant where space is limited . |
| 29 | Such arguments may seem trivial when bodies as thoughtful as the Church of England have taken it upon themselves to ponder the issue of the use of nuclear weapons ; but the bomb has not gone off and when it has receded into the background we will be left with the demand for electricity . |
| 30 | UEFA may get tough as Anfield plays its cards wrong |