Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , in contrast to the neo-classical school , Marxists have often emphasized that before any countervailing tendencies set in , the processes of growth in one region and decline elsewhere may for long periods become self-reinforcing .
2 Thus , even though they may for professional purposes , guarantee their subjects ' anonymity in return for access , they nevertheless stress that behind the ‘ sources in Whitehall ’ or ‘ the people of Hicktown ’ there are indeed real people ; thus establishing both their veracity and their morality .
3 The exception to this has been the work of Women 's Aid groups and the National Women 's Aid Federation , who have consistently and successfully f ought for battered women 's rights to housing in cases of domestic violence .
4 is an adult but must for bureaucratic reasons be treated as a child ;
5 The should of slow labouring footsteps could be heard moving along the first-floor landing as the boy threw himself into the kitchen and slammed the door behind him .
6 But you must up awful square with that .
7 The purchaser ( If a licensed business from the trustee of a bankrupt certificate-holder must with reasonable dispatch get the bankrupt 's certificate transferred to him .
8 Should into salty sea no less
9 Because progress in learning a language is continuous but uneven , the definition of the different levels of attainment must in certain respects be a matter of judgement .
10 The literary production of the revolutionary novelist must in other words be underwritten by the historical awareness of the political revolutionary :
11 The larger a programme 's audience or a paper 's readership , the more likely it seems that the content must in general be enjoyed , else why the large audience ?
12 A linguistic item must in general have at least the complexity of a simple sentence to show such properties .
13 Stylistics as a branch of literary studies can draw on this kind of work , but its concerns must in general be very different , because from a literary point of view the linguistic form of texts is of interest only in certain respects .
14 In a search of part , the land searched against must in general be defined by a plan unless the seller has lodged an officially approved plan of his or her development in the Registry : see official form of search ( Form 94B ) .
15 It recommended that trials of scheduled terrorist offences should be conducted without a jury ; that members of the armed services should be given power to arrest and to detain for up to four hours to establish identity ; that bail should not normally be granted ; that the onus of proof as to the possession of firearms and explosives should in certain circumstances be shifted to the accused ; and that the rules about the admissibility as evidence of confessions and signed statements should be relaxed .
16 However , Professor Williams considers that the possible existence of such fantasies , whether conscious or unconscious , should in certain circumstances be investigated in rape cases .
17 These principal chief officers should in appropriate cases be responsible for more than one department .
18 A legal duty should in civil law be the counterpart of a legal right .
19 The independent Law Commission has recommended that a commercial tenant should in general be freed from any future liability under a lease when he assigns away his interest under it .
20 This is a temptation one should in general resist , as l regard it as a cardinal rule in developmental biology not to try to infer developmental mechanisms from final forms .
21 Pupils with physical disabilities should in general have the same attainment targets and programmes of study as their peers .
22 Indeed it was the accepted orthodoxy that battles should in general be avoided as too risky and that skill in manoeuvre was the real criterion of ability in a commander .
23 Old deeds can be very useful for such a purpose , and certainly any containing plans should in general be retained .
24 A letter says authorities ‘ should in particular consider expanding the role of local GPs in family planning by supplying them with condoms for free distribution to any patient whether or not at high risk if this is thought desirable as a means of preventing HIV [ the Aids virus ] ’ .
25 The therapist should in particular look for , and assist the patient to recognize , attitudes which have prevented the achievement of tasks .
26 Oh dear , I thought , he reckons I 'm wheedling my way in , not for birthday greetings , but for contentious sexist matters — to grill him about tonight 's Lancashire cricket club annual meeting when the agenda is topped by a proposal that women should at long last be allowed full membership entitling them to mix with men in the pavilion .
27 You are strictly to forbid them to deprive us of anything which ought of right to belong to us .
28 As the Earl of Leicester is now dead , in whose keeping the King was by reason of the disturbance in the realm , and now by the favour of God the King is snatched out of his hands and raised again to his former estate , whereby with the common consent of the realm the King has caused all things attempted by the Earl for the diminution of the King 's right , honour and royal dignity to be revoked ; and whereas the forests north of Trent , which before the war in the time of the Earl were preserved whole and uninjured , have been disafforested and destroyed to the King 's disherison , the King commands the said Roger to re-afforest all the forests in his bailiwick as they were … before the war ; and if any part thereof ought of right to be disafforested , the King is prepared to do full justice .
29 With a formal ought it seems possible to move from the anormativity of crude , fact-based positivism to a position short of the material ought of natural law .
30 but er I 'd meet up in town and our house like twenty past nine , half past , get , get , get the bit of shopping done before the fucking crowds I might off wasted me time , we got in there about ten o'clock , right old day .
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