Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | While the child is in care no-one may cause him to be known by a new surname or remove him from the United Kingdom without either the written consent of every person who has parental responsibility or the leave of the court ( s33(7) ) . |
2 | I tried telling her she was wrong , which was silly really , because no-one ought to decide such things for anyone else … ’ |
3 | ‘ Everyone ought to go home if they 've got a home to go to . |
4 | That everyone ought to live on unsurfaced streets ? |
5 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
6 | In a common curriculum , then , everyone ought to study English in this basic , practical , and user-orientated sense , whatever method is used to teach it . |
7 | In 1988 , she wrote The Book of Spells , urging that : ‘ Knowing how to cast spells is a technique everyone ought to have , along with computer technology . ’ |
8 | Merit goods ( bads ) are goods that society thinks everyone ought to have ( ought not to have ) regardless of whether they are wanted by each individual . |
9 | If The Lord of the Rings should approach too close to ‘ Gospel-truth ’ , to the Christian myth in which Tolkien himself believed , it might forfeit its status as a story and become at worst a blasphemy , an ‘ Apocryphal gospel ’ , at best a dull allegory rehearsing in admittedly novel form what everyone ought to know already . |
10 | Everyone ought to sign ! ’ |
11 | Everyone ought to get a . |
12 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
13 | It is all so much work and nothing may come of it . |
14 | Now look here , you trembling ridiculous creature , listen to me , nothing may happen and that has to be OK too . |
15 | Nothing may happen . |
16 | Ironically , at the start of a relationship it may not seem relevant to use anything as nothing may happen , so it may not seem worth all that trouble to get the Pill . |
17 | I mean it could be nothing may happen at all may descend on us and everybody 's and we 've run out of money . |
18 | Just because not everyone may spot the toy gun in this ad and attach a certain symbolic significance to it , it does not mean that it is not there nor that it has no effect . |
19 | The buttery-hatch is open from dawn to dusk for the entire week ; everyone may eat as much as he can , and take off in a basket as much as he can carry , including clothing , ‘ for a Christian gentleman of high degree was Eustace Lyle ’ . |
20 | Thus , everyone may have the same wage rate , w , per hour and the same unearned income , M , but there may be differences in the tastes for leisure leading to differences in hours worked , L. As a result , measured income may vary — even though all individuals have the same endowments and market opportunities . |
21 | Yet everyone may come into contact with the mentally handicapped at some stage in their lives ; indeed any one of us may be accidentally brain damaged . |
22 | ‘ Everyone must urge their MP to tell the Secretary of State for Wales his strategy is wrong and must be changed ’ , said Dr Caldwell . |
23 | Everyone must contribute — and want to contribute . ’ |
24 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
25 | Everyone must carry an internal passport , and we were always conscious of security everywhere . |
26 | Again such taxes discriminate against the poor because everyone must pay the same regardless of their actual wealth . |
27 | In a society where everyone must supplement their income in whatever way they can , you have to be very noble to renounce , even for love , a comfortable , clandestine source of income . |
28 | Whenever an instruction starts with the words ‘ Let's all ’ everyone MUST do it . |
29 | On arrival I surveyed ( as everyone must do ) the chimneys . |
30 | She was awakened in the mornings by cocks crowing , and it was so quiet in the evenings it seemed everyone must go to bed before dark . |