Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | We should like to be constructive and we shall consider with our allies how best we can respond . |
| 33 | I should like to be sure that the child Barbara is carrying is my grandchild , not your bastard . ’ |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | That aside , we should try to be happy with the body we have . |
| 40 | We should try to be happy in everything we do . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | I have decided that I should try to be objective instead , and reflect for a moment . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | I must admit to being unaware of it before you wrote . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | ( 2 ) The date , time and place of the proposed examination must prove to be convenient to our client . |
| 48 | Committees should cease to be executive or administrative bodies and should concentrate on policy determination . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | A " merger qualifying for investigation " occurs where : ( 1 ) Two or more enterprises must cease to be distinct . |
| 52 | Rather than duplicate the work carried out in the creation of these parsers , the use of existing parsers should prove to be beneficial . |
| 53 | And the final reflection which suggests itself is that if this pattern of behaviour should prove to be normal , it should be assumed — at least until the contrary is demonstrated — that it is beneficial and has been evolved by trial and error as a preservative device or mechanism . |
| 54 | Returning now to our basic theory , we see that the extension of Freud 's monotraumatic theory of human social evolution to a polytraumatic one allows us to discern in human cultural evolution a pattern which , if it should prove to be real , may perhaps represent for the human sciences something like the revolution introduced into the physical sciences by Copernicus , Kepler and Galileo . |
| 55 | ‘ You must give me your solemn assurance on three counts : that you will not seek to discover the identity of my client , that you will not ask for any further assistance if the venture should prove to be unsuccessful and finally that you will not discuss this matter with any other person ; this stipulation to include even members of your own family and your circle of personal friends and acquaintances . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ But Jamie or Gary should prove to be suitable donors . |
| 57 | She had suggested that one of them should pretend to be ill , shout for help and then , when one of their captors responded , the others should attack him . |
| 58 | The young men must resolve to be mutinous . |
| 59 | But this is where I must start to be careful in talking about ‘ our ’ love affair with the car . |
| 60 | There is every reason why it should continue to be pleasurable and satisfying for both husband and wife for the rest of their married life . |