Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the right balance is not something which partners should expect to be able to settle at the outset in such a way as will necessarily be appropriate throughout the life of the firm . |
| 32 | In the meantime , we should expect to be surprised very often . |
| 33 | However , these interests can not conflict too directly , but must appear to be consonant . |
| 34 | I love Ma , but she must expect to be unhappy because she 's reached that time of life . |
| 35 | He was trying to pick her up , of course , but any Wren new to the flotilla must expect to be fair game , she acknowledged , especially in a base so isolated , where women were outnumbered by fifty to one . |
| 36 | The other group of music papers which aspiring acts should look to are those catering to some very specific style and its devoted audience . |
| 37 | We should like to be constructive and we shall consider with our allies how best we can respond . |
| 38 | I should like to be sure that the child Barbara is carrying is my grandchild , not your bastard . ’ |
| 39 | The question we should like to be able to answer is , therefore , what suddenly created such a new , unheard of , situation in the religious life of antiquity . |
| 40 | Laocoon suffers ; but he suffers like Sophocles ' Philoctetes ; his misery pierces us to the soul ; but we should like to be able to bear anguish in the manner of this great man . |
| 41 | There is a meeting of the Parish Council on 16th July and I should like to be able to bring your reply to that meeting . |
| 42 | It is really worth saying to all who are married or who will be one day , and particularly to those who are maintaining painful relationships , you must work at being generous to your partner . |
| 43 | The Government must look to be fairer to London , with equalisation at least in the grants system — perhaps on the basis of incomes , or by taking the regional banding approach . |
| 44 | The rabbi 's wife had insisted it was her role to attend to their epileptic daughter several times each night ; her husband must sleep to be strong for the community . |
| 45 | That aside , we should try to be happy with the body we have . |
| 46 | We should try to be happy in everything we do . |
| 47 | The West German Chancellor also fell into line with his French allies by agreeing that the Community should try to be ready to implement the economic union when the single market came fully into operation on January 1 , 1993 . |
| 48 | I have decided that I should try to be objective instead , and reflect for a moment . |
| 49 | Aunt M. nags and nags , and Uncle John said outright that he did n't see why they should have to be responsible for me , when Mother was only half-sister to Aunt Millicent . |
| 50 | For we should have to be able to redescribe both the actions we currently regard as rational , and those we think of as requiring a reactive response , so as to overcome the contrast between them . |
| 51 | Erm , we have , as you would have seen , and has already been noted , erm , balances considerably higher than the seven million we 've previously set , at the , at the moment , and these will erm , be able to make provision if necessary , for police pay should happen to be higher than er , we are told than , than the one point five percent , which has something that people have raised with me , and erm , have said , that oh of course you lose grants if you do n't decide it now , but that is not in fact the case . |
| 52 | However , some of our Tour players should aim to be better ambassadors . |
| 53 | I must admit to being unaware of it before you wrote . |
| 54 | I must admit to being worried the week before my flight , as one local farmer had already started cutting great swathes through his fields with his combine , and I was afraid some of the other growers might follow suit . |
| 55 | ( 2 ) The date , time and place of the proposed examination must prove to be convenient to our client . |
| 56 | Committees should cease to be executive or administrative bodies and should concentrate on policy determination . |
| 57 | On the whole , however , I believe that , though school assembly should cease to be compulsory as an act of worship ( largely because it has long ceased to be that anyway ) , there should be a place in the timetable for the compulsory teaching of Christianity , as long as Church and State are linked . |
| 58 | These bacteria are , of course , just the kind of parasites that , I argued , should cease to be parasitic and become mutualistic , precisely because they are transmitted in the eggs of the host , together with the host 's ‘ own ’ genes . |
| 59 | A " merger qualifying for investigation " occurs where : ( 1 ) Two or more enterprises must cease to be distinct . |
| 60 | You few must seem to be many . ’ |