Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [that] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the gas has been cut off , which is an appalling piece of vindictiveness on the part of some public servant who ought to know that writers of talent have better things to do with their time than remember dates on bits of paper delivered in brown envelopes like a trade circular . |
| 2 | The court may direct that particulars of the alleged debt be advertised , and if no claim on the security is made within twelve months , the court can , on application , order the release of the security ( r 6.211(4) ) . |
| 3 | Secondly , because programming chiefs should recognise that topics of crucial importance for education , industry and national life bear examination in more crowded regions of space time than Sunday midnight in the south . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ There are already support groups in Barnard Castle and Shildon and I feel people should know that people of Richmondshire are able to benefit from the Darlington hospice . ’ |
| 5 | In such cases the tenant 's adviser should ensure that exercise of the option is not conditional on the performance by the tenant of his covenants . |
| 6 | Plans should ensure that sites of varying size and location are available . |
| 7 | The historian must recognize that diversity of fortune existed within towns as well as between them . |
| 8 | Given this , we must recognize that knowledge of appearances is not , in itself , such a worthless thing ; what we know on the basis of sense-experience is perfectly good for many purposes . |
| 9 | But even if this were true , it would only alter the degree of the problem , as the rocks on the west coast of Scotland are almost entirely hard and the cutting of beaches in narrow straits must indicate that waves of considerable power have operated there . |
| 10 | In the event of the named grant awarding authority refusing to pay fees , students should note that payment of fees will then become a personal responsibility . |
| 11 | The term " user-friendly " is often misused but related to software for use in schools , it should mean that pupils of different ability and reading levels should be able to understand instructions and where possible , help messages should be fitted into the program . |
| 12 | Yet we must admit that reminiscences of natural forms can not be absolutely banished , at least not yet . |
| 13 | It is extremely important that the client must learn that avoidance of difficult situations is never an appropriate solution for their anxiety . |
| 14 | Some may feel that differences of interpretation are all very well in their way ( though the present writer would maintain that they are of first-rank importance ) , but what is really wanted is a correlation or two with data that can be subjected ( in principle ) to some basic observational test , such as " Is this grammatical or not ? " |
| 15 | Therefore , although one might think that hours of work would be a matter for internal national control , it will be dealt with by the Community if it can get the subsidiarity principle interpreted in that way . |
| 16 | This might suggest that assay of α fetoprotein concentration alone is better at detecting Down 's syndrome than triple testing . |
| 17 | In which case we might wish that 50% of the footage is shot in IH or whatever ! |
| 18 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
| 19 | If you now work through an imaginary game between Remorseful Prober and Tit for Tat , you 'll find that runs of would-be mutual retaliation are promptly scotched . |
| 20 | He had worked on the optical specificity of certain enzymes ( one may remember that problems of optical activity first drew Pasteur from chemical to biological problems ) but was also devoted to music and became the music critic of a Berlin evening paper . |
| 21 | He might have had thoughts of destiny but it is unlikely that even he could conceive that troupes of girls bearing his name would still be dancing nearly a hundred years later . |
| 22 | PPC : We 'd estimate that 99% of shareware authors include their own address in the documentation somewhere , and many also include an order form , so the first point of contact is usually plain to see . |
| 23 | In the definition above , if the words ’ charged ’ , ’ property ’ , ’ interest ’ , ’ repayment ’ and ’ purchase ’ were all members of the domain wordlist , we could say that expansion of this word provides a total of 25 content words , of which 5 are directly relevant and hence useful . |
| 24 | As for happy hours , I 'd say that 50% of pubs in Leeds have a happy hour at least once a day so if you were looking for something to celebrate each and every day then this might come up ( along with the anniversary of the death of the guy who drove the stephenson steam train on it 's maiden journey , and the all too sad occasion of the 7th anniversary of the cat that lived 4 doors down that was callously knocked over by the no. 40 bus ) |
| 25 | No , I 'd say that wife of his was as unsuitable a sick-nurse as you could find . ’ |
| 26 | Let's hope that sort of spirit prevails in Britain in 1993 . |
| 27 | Whether a guillotine has been imposed or not , the Speaker has the power to select and group amendments in order to cut down the number and to confine debate to the salient points , but even with this power of Speaker 's selection , a guillotine may mean that blocks of amendments are never reached . |
| 28 | Even if I thought strict liability for accidents wrong in principle , I would prefer that manufacturers of both washing machines and automobiles be held to that standard than that only one of them be . |
| 29 | If , as I suspect , Nicaragua faces serious economic problems , I would assume that part of the blame lies with the previous Nicaraguan government and that Chamorro may be faced with tough decisions needed to ensure that the ‘ empty stomachs ’ of the people are filled . |
| 30 | This would ensure that issues of principle could be dealt with before the painstaking , line-by-line consideration of parliamentary drafting . |