Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The mayor 's office reckons that the $100m of private investment collected by Mr Ueberroth and his colleagues should translate into 5,000 new inner-city jobs — an unprecedented achievement not only for Los Angeles , but for blighted neighbourhoods anywhere . |
| 32 | Based on the above , which HDTV hype can not alter , I suggest that commercial technical research should concentrate on larger flat screens with superimposed pixels with change of standards but with some attention to the basic defects in the NTSC , Pal and Secam systems which are only mildly irritating . |
| 33 | ‘ He that ventures to look downward sees , that if his foot should slip , he must fall from this dreadful elevation upon stones on one side , or into water on the other . |
| 34 | To any of you with decent sensibilities , I must apologize for these horrific images . |
| 35 | Scattered and divided , we must act like all true liberation armies . |
| 36 | ‘ Is it important that you should know at this very moment ? ’ |
| 37 | The Institute of Trading Standards Administration , which told us that some of its members are finding follow-on credit a problem in some places , suggested to us that , by regulation , follow-on agreements should count as one single agreement . |
| 38 | Other main recommendations were that : ( i ) Congress should create the post of assistant secretary for transport in charge of security and intelligence ; ( ii ) the US government should directly manage security at domestic airports and conduct a study to assess the safety of US airports ; ( iii ) the State Department rather than the airlines should conduct negotiations with foreign governments to meet security standards at airports used by US carriers ; ( iv ) victims of terrorist attacks aimed against the US government should qualify for special financial compensation ; and ( v ) the State Department should take steps to ensure that relatives of victims were given " prompt , humane and courteous treatment and services in overseas disasters " . |
| 39 | The shares jumped 8p to 493p as investors gave the thumbs up a growth strategy which should result in another earnings-enhancing year . |
| 40 | There are social phenomena that are specific to confined areas : that is why any survey of Soviet politics and society must refer to discrete geographical localities . |
| 41 | When auditors give qualified reports , they should refer to all material matters about which they have reservations , giving their reasons in each case together with a quantification of its effect on the financial statements if this is both relevant and practicable . |
| 42 | The name ‘ Shivering Mountain ’ sounds like it should refer to some awesome peak in the Himalayas — in fact it applies to Mam Tor , standing at a modest 1,696ft but offering a first class viewpoint on this fine Derbyshire circuit . |
| 43 | If the immediate international situation is used as an excuse to get us to drop our opposition to the rearmament programme of the Government , the next phase must be that we must desist from any industrial or political action that may disturb national unity in face of fascist aggression . |
| 44 | The deeper purpose of his novels was no more than one must expect from any responsible man who draws on his experience and knowledge of the world for readers who will rightly expect both the general and the particular in the fiction . |
| 45 | Similar considerations would , it appears to me , be applicable to any claim that the third party should contribute to any exemplary damages which the third defendant may be ordered to pay to the plaintiffs , for exemplary damages would never be recoverable by the plaintiffs direct from the third party . |
| 46 | ( Gene Fowler on the book jacket of Beagle 1990 ) ( " This young poet and novelist dares do what is practically inconceivable that he should do in that social context . " ) |
| 47 | He describes as ‘ ominous ’ any ‘ suggestion that , out of ‘ respect ’ for the law we should refrain from any forthright criticism either of particular laws , or of the institutions of law enforcement or the governmental process by which the laws are made . ’ |
| 48 | For if pragmatics is to be considered an aspect of linguistic competence in Chomsky 's sense , then like other aspects it must consist of some abstract cognitive ability . |
| 49 | This does not mean , however , that one should invest in that declining industry beyond the level justified by short-run returns . |
| 50 | It was suggested that courses should consist of three main elements . |
| 51 | For example , to conciliate the BMA the government ruled that trusts must stick to central junior doctor staffing levels and pay staff at nationally negotiated rates . |
| 52 | As the ancestor spirits are such realistic replicas of living elders it is perhaps not surprising that they should work in such close and harmonious collaboration . |
| 53 | She must look at two other things , hard and solid , so that she would be strong for the battle ahead . |
| 54 | What is the use of going to open beaches when we must return to segregated residential areas and schools and suffer under the laws that make the best medical treatment the prerogative of the whites only in our country ? |
| 55 | I must apologise for this stupid oversight which is doubtless my fault — a symptom of the pressure we seem to be constantly under these days . |
| 56 | The question must for the moment remain open as to whether it is inevitable that the economy should move in this cyclical way as it copes with the new microelectronics technology . |
| 57 | ‘ I do not accept that David Trippier is supporting the action of the trade unions , or is asking me to go to arbitration , or expects that the management , having made a final offer , should move from that final offer . ’ |
| 58 | They began following its twisting route , keeping close to the cover of the trees in case they should meet with any oncoming sect vehicle going to relieve or check up on their outside patrol . |
| 59 | The support she may win in the crisis , where minor disagreements are sunk in the face of a much disliked enemy , can evaporate in everyday disputes , where the Prime Minister 's views must compete with many other acceptable views . |
| 60 | If they are filled with progressive rubbish , they should demand from the headmaster and governors that they should return to traditional structured learning so that their children will have a fair chance . |