Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the 1988 Act , such a statement may disapply or modify the application of any or all of the provisions of the National Curriculum for the pupils for whom the statement is made . |
| 2 | I agree with his conclusion that , although the power to release a life prisoner on licence is conferred by section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 on the Secretary of State , the decisions leading to that release , including the decision as to the period to be served by the prisoner for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , may properly and lawfully be made by a junior minister in the Home Department . |
| 3 | ‘ It may better if the child can get to know both parents where possible , even though many unmarried mums are happier on their own . ’ |
| 4 | When they do not work effectively , the unmitigated anger may well seep out in constant irritation over relatively trivial things or , as it seems to other people , may suddenly and unexpectedly break out with a degree of force inappropriate to the circumstances . |
| 5 | An alternative view is that the parties to the Protocol have bestowed a benefit upon the treaty parties , which the latter must expressly or impliedly accept ( and presumably have done so in advance by ratifying the treaty ) . |
| 6 | He 's desperate to score one and it was rather curious on Saturday that it was his shot , parried by , a player with an England pedigree should better than the Palace goalkeeper did on that occasion . |
| 7 | There is no a priori reasoning process which indicates that the courts ' view on the meaning of one of the ‘ if X ’ issues should necessarily and always be preferred to that of the agency . |
| 8 | They must necessarily as Christians make reference to the past . |
| 9 | But break things down we must so that we get a sense of scale . |
| 10 | The Financial Times report maintained that the deal " should all but eliminate cereal export subsidies — the real rock on which the Uruguay Round [ of trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade — GATT — was ] foundering " [ see pp. 38888-89 ] . |
| 11 | After the visit the East German government spokesperson declared that " unity must not and can not be a simple annexation " . |
| 12 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 13 | The other concurrent development was the growing and irrepressible conviction that the inhabitants of India would claim and must sooner or later obtain responsibility for their own government . |
| 14 | The itinerant ticker of classic gritstone , steeped in the lure and legend of this most elemental of climbing forms , must sooner or later come to an end of the unusual circuit of well-publicised , polished testpieces and crowded crags . |
| 15 | Hoare was concerned that his grandson , upon succeeding to Stourhead , should relinquish all connection with the bank , because of his fears that the ‘ great National Debt must sooner or later be our ruin : if any public calamity happen , Stourhead should not be threatened ’ . |
| 16 | Do n't see any reason why I should not that they 've had nothing wrong |
| 17 | She should not and can not be sexually active in her natal family and hence is regarded while she is there as both benign and pure . |
| 18 | And one officer at the crash scene yesterday said : ‘ There are people who live there who should not and the building that was hit is one of the worst . |
| 19 | The point about quality was that it should not and probably could not be confined . |
| 20 | The socialist , the feminist , or the worker who picks up a cheap print of the Memorial Sheet to Karl Liebknecht ( 1919 ) , is not prioritising the formal elements which attracted Max Lehrs as writing , ‘ It would be very regrettable if ( Kollowitz ‘ etchings ) found approval from the public merely because of their social content … = Art should not and can not serve the changing goals of parties . ’ |
| 21 | With the United States removed , at least temporarily , from the reprocessing marketplace , the possibility of the 450 spent fuel elements coming to Scotland should not and can not be dismissed . |
| 22 | We really do belong in the Second Division but this should not and need not be so . |
| 23 | I actually advised him at the meeting that he should not and could n't take that motion , and I was by Alderman in that situation , but he still deemed to go ahead and that 's p his prerogative . |
| 24 | Narrative , I always wonder whether you should not or |
| 25 | And it , till now , has been unrelentingly firm : Ukraine must formally and finally reject nuclear status , and that was that . |
| 26 | No one had thought to specify how many shirt buttons could be undone and fear was now patently manifest that some uncontrollable disorder would be let loose should more than one button be opened to reveal ‘ chest hair , or even a medallion ’ . |
| 27 | But the promotion of Gillian Shephard to the Cabinet should more than compensate for any misgivings ’ , Sangster said . |
| 28 | Profits should more than double as well , to about £75 million . |
| 29 | Traditionally Christmas and snow have always gone together — and even though Safeway ca n't guarantee the weather , it does have a delectable , fully iced Christmas cake which should more than make up for it ! |
| 30 | These should more than compensate for the natural decline in other more mature fields . |