Example sentences of "[modal v] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question here is what must a firm disclose to its customers in order to permit its broker/dealer department to sell or buy stock off its own book to or from a " fiduciary customer " ( ie a customer to whom fiduciary duties are owed , eg where a broker acts as agent ) ? |
| 2 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 3 | On the other hand , must a man breathe on a woman for her to be a woman ? |
| 4 | A pilgrimage to Salisbury can be as must a quest for Mrs Proudie as for that God to whom she was so imperious . |
| 5 | So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother . |
| 6 | Where must a camera be to achieve this shot ? |
| 7 | I do n't think a person told , who apologises is n't really an apology but I thought there must a reason why you did n't . |
| 8 | Convention be interpreted as meaning that there must be a connection between the actions against the various defendants ? ( b ) If question ( a ) must be answered in the affirmative , does the necessary connection between the actions against the various defendants exist if the actions are essentially the same in fact and law ( einfache Streitgenossenschaft ) , or must a connection be assumed to exist only if it is expedient to hear and determine them together to avoid the risk of irreconcilable judgments resulting from separate proceedings ( for example , in cases of ‘ notwengide Streitgenossenschaft ’ ( compulsory joinder ) ) ? |
| 9 | 1 ) Why must a business plan ahead , making use of sales and market forecasts ? |
| 10 | Only the good Lord knows why the poor bastard killed himself , but must a suicide be buried near a gibbet at the crossroads with a stake driven through his heart ? ’ |
| 11 | So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother . |
| 12 | During the surface interval , the fly time screen displays one of four sets of information : Warning/do not fly for … hrs … mins ; safe to fly/time to tissue desat … hrs … mins ; safe to fly/tissues desaturated ; and , should a decompression incident have occurred : Warning/do not fly . |
| 13 | He might visit from time to time should a story miserable enough to write about crop up , but there was no way he was going to edit the paper from there . |
| 14 | Remember to have a neighbour on call so that the unit may be switched off should a hosepipe ban be imposed by the local water authority . |
| 15 | How long should a patient use a pump ? |
| 16 | His condition creates a crisis of conscience amongst medical staff — should a patient with a terminal condition really be allowed to take up already over-subscribed resources ? |
| 17 | Should a buyer cancel , he is automatically entitled to claim back advance payments and the seller is not allowed to levy a cancellation fee . |
| 18 | This has now become a listed building and should a buyer be found for the surplus Ministry of Defence land , a pre-requisite would be the dismantling of the hangar and its re-erection on RAF Museum land . |
| 19 | So , when buying an alternative energy generator what should a buyer look for ? |
| 20 | Should a question be included about the number of children in the unemployed person 's family ? |
| 21 | Why should a customer buy any one particular company s insurance product as opposed to a similar product from another insurance company ? |
| 22 | Why should a society dedicated to an economy of profit-making competitive enterprise , to the efforts of the isolated individual , to equality of rights and opportunities and freedom , rest on an institution which so totally denied all of these ? |
| 23 | Smacking — a mother 's dilemma : How should a child be punished ? |
| 24 | Should a child die before attaining an absolutely vested interest , his interest passes on to those next entitled , that is to say , other children , a parent , brothers and sisters of the whole blood , a surviving spouse , or remoter relatives if there is no surviving spouse . |
| 25 | To prevent this from running down on-to the rest of the body and the swaddling clothes , it was immediately covered by a narrow linen band known as the ‘ chrysom ’ ; and it was the custom , should a child die before it was one month old , that this chrysom was used as the head-covering to the funerary swaddling . |
| 26 | It is easy enough to accept that a child 's first word should label its mother , until we start to think about it : why should a child connect sounds with objects at all ? |
| 27 | But why , they asked of each other , should a child like that be under the care of the rag woman ? |
| 28 | ‘ For instance , should a child who has run away from home ring and ask that their parents be contacted , then the counsellors will do that and tell the mum and dad concerned where the child is , ’ she says . |
| 29 | For instance , should a farmer require some fencing , he knew that Mr. Green would be on the edge of the pavement at the right hand corner of The Market House — a position that Green 's had occupied over generations . |
| 30 | What should a coach do if he encounters a boy who bowls with an action reminiscent of Mike Procter ? |