Example sentences of "[modal v] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Rave ’ is now a dirty word , ‘ Manchester ’ is best forgotten , and as for the Mondays , how daft must it feel to be a rebel role model for spotty teenagers when you 've got kids yourself ? |
2 | Oh God , how must it feel , arriving in the fad pop capital of the world , a round year after said green and pleasant land dug early graves for your close spiritual cohorts , the Home Counties fey brigade ? |
3 | But so also must it stand to him for warmth , for … affection . |
4 | To be admitted as an aid to construction must parliamentary material ( a ) in its own terms express a clear parliamentary intention or ( b ) must it express a clear parliamentary intention which resolves an already identified ambiguity ? |
5 | I shall of course notify the company straight away , but how soon must it inform the London Stock Exchange and what details must it supply ? |
6 | " What must it consist of ? |
7 | At the close of the interview , I said forcibly that , if a press statement were to be released , on no account must it contain the usual smear phrases . |
8 | Must it follow fashion or be above it ? |
9 | Once the murder is done the hypocrisy must continue : in Marvell 's version of Machiavelli , ‘ The same Arts that did gain/A Pow'r must it maintain ’ . |
10 | I shall of course notify the company straight away , but how soon must it inform the London Stock Exchange and what details must it supply ? |
11 | ‘ How must it seem , ’ Jaq asked , ‘ to live one 's whole life down here ? ’ |
12 | Must it provide fragrance and a haven for butterflies , and a happy hunting-ground for bees ? |
13 | Not only must it have an overall structure which makes sense , but individual paragraphs and sentences must knit together in a coherent fashion that others can readily follow . |
14 | What must it take |
15 | What difference should it make ? |
16 | Who should it make fish of one and fowl of another ? |
17 | Why should it make you any happier ? |
18 | If that is so should it make any difference whether the debtor is a party to the agreement ( he is not a party to the contract ) or not ? |
19 | The Act which he had just steered through Parliament faced Emanuel with difficult choices : should it remain fully independent and operate outside the State system , or should it be incorporated within the local provision of schooling and become a voluntary-aided school ? |
20 | Or should it remain a neutral research instrument , and not become a Weltanschuung of an anti-religious kind ? |
21 | Should the harmonizing measure be confined to business transaction or should it embrace consumer transactions as well ? |
22 | In the meantime , the Board is looking for ways to fund the deficit should it continue , but has decided not to charge the deficit as an additional burden upon those residents who are able to pay their own way from their own resources , and not to move from its established principle of offering care to those most in need towards a degenerate policy of offering care only to those who are most able to pay . |
23 | That is only a part of life , and as it no longer concerns us , why should it hold us together ? |
24 | And presumably , should it start to rain , Mr Horobin intends to leave his car in the middle of the road , don some wellies and walk home . |
25 | Would In Bed With Madonna get your vote for Film of the Year or should it go to Die Hard 2 , Ghost or Robin Hood : Prince Of Thieves ? |
26 | Should it go wrong he would be expected to mend it : he was a musician , not a mechanic . |
27 | Should a government , which does n't have much in the way of financial resources and technical resources , should it go for erm a big teaching hospital in the capital , for example , or should it put its priorities rather on the rural area , on smaller scale , more preventive medicine ? |
28 | If IBM has any sense ( which is in itself a topic worthy of serious consideration ) it will offer versions of its engine for the entire ES/9000 range ; should it do so , the 9221 version might be nothing larger than a circuit board or two that fits in a standard rack . |
29 | Only if the House of Lords decides that it is appropriate that it should decide the uncertified point should it do so , perhaps in circumstances like those in Gallagher where the certified issue and the question ultimately determined by the House of Lords were not easily disentangled . |
30 | But who is to provide this training and of what should it consist ? |