Example sentences of "[vb mod] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The literary production of the revolutionary novelist must in other words be underwritten by the historical awareness of the political revolutionary : |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | A linguistic item must in general have at least the complexity of a simple sentence to show such properties . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , Professor Williams considers that the possible existence of such fantasies , whether conscious or unconscious , should in certain circumstances be investigated in rape cases . |
| 9 | These principal chief officers should in appropriate cases be responsible for more than one department . |
| 10 | A legal duty should in civil law be the counterpart of a legal right . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Pupils with physical disabilities should in general have the same attainment targets and programmes of study as their peers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Old deeds can be very useful for such a purpose , and certainly any containing plans should in general be retained . |
| 16 | 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 ] ’ . |
| 17 | The therapist should in particular look for , and assist the patient to recognize , attitudes which have prevented the achievement of tasks . |
| 18 | Otherwise any Zuwayi might in future quarrels assert that he was justified in aggressive action because there was blood between the Zuwaya and Zliten ( though on the whole most people present thought that improbable ) . |
| 19 | In both these there is a struggle between two opposing forces , between the mariner 's evil deed , and the need for penance , which provides the contrast between futility and lack of concern with which the mariner kills the albatross , rather evidently portraying what might in simple moralistic terms be defined as evil , and the desire to make amends for this wrongdoing . |
| 20 | You might in good time like to write a pop-psychology book under that title ? |
| 21 | So , for example , the behaviour of people who fall in love , such as kissing in public , is tolerated rather than drawing censure as it might in other circumstances . |
| 22 | Could that be for example because males with resources would want normally to acquire youthful wives , or perhaps it might in other words it could be could n't it that if males provide resources to females that they can use for primal investment , this would then have selective effects on females who will want certain things in order to get erm the investment and one of the things they might want to do is to look youthful . |
| 23 | Mrs. Proudie makes an immediate impression when introduced to Mr. Harding and Dr. Grantly because when they are shown into the new bishop 's study , they see Dr. Proudie , Mr. Slope and also , to their surprise , Mrs. Proudie ‘ an innovation for which a precedent might in vain be sought in all the annals of the Barchester bishopric ! ’ |
| 24 | it might in general |
| 25 | One question to bear in mind is whether it might in certain circumstances be a breach of fiduciary duty to include an exemption clause in a contract with a customer . |
| 26 | If 5% , let us say , of the total of first-preference votes are given to minute parties and frivolous independent candidates , there is no good reason why they should secure even the minimal representation to which they might in strict theoretical proportionality be entitled . |
| 27 | Naturally enough , this raised all sorts of questions as to how much of the estate could in good faith be consumed by him ; and ( the question here ) in what circumstances the estate could be said to have been diminished . |
| 28 | That will be a considerable relief to Mr Bond , who could in certain circumstances have seen his entire 35 per cent stake in BSB placed with the other equity participants , which include Granada , Pearson , Reed International and Chargeurs of France . |
| 29 | The second and less sweeping challenge to Hale came from Smith J. who , whilst accepting the contract and consent analysis , suggested that the consent could in certain circumstances be revoked by the wife . |
| 30 | It should be remembered that there are other provisions which could in certain circumstances prevent him from doing so ( see Chapter 5 above ) . |