Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it should do is to stop issuing patents for plants and animals and await the outcome of proper international debate . |
| 2 | What Brussels should do is to provide direct support for research students and equipment in the less advantaged areas provided they interact with major European collaborators . |
| 3 | What a delight it must have been to watch express trains thundering up the bank at Arkwright bridge . |
| 4 | What I thought we might do is to explore this phenomenon a little further , just the two of us together , but making sure we take things very carefully all the time . ’ |
| 5 | You know one of the things that we could do is to do another directory . |
| 6 | All that the King could do was to provide some sort of legal foundation of government for Englishmen going to unsettled and thinly populated areas , which he did by linking the legitimacy of their governments to the legitimacy of his government . |
| 7 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 8 | This clearly might have been proceeded against as an affray , and counsel 's argument before the Court of Appeal appears to have been that once violence had actually been used , the proper course would have been to charge that offence . |
| 9 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 10 | One obvious alternative to the appointment of the Commissioner would have been to give further jurisdiction to the Industrial Tribunals , instead of the High Court , to enforce such rights which now fall within the scope of the Commissioner 's work . |
| 11 | For Freud , this would have been to replace one set of dogmatic assertions with another set , held by the believers to be for ever true , and providing a sense of false security for them . |
| 12 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 13 | To have insisted would have been to demand more details about Montaine , and more explanations about their love , than I was entitled to . |
| 14 | The effect of such a drastic change of ownership , especially of tribal lands , would have been to bring new capital into the area with development programmes to exploit the land for profit . |
| 15 | You may have already decided what sort of walking boots to buy , but the shop assistant will , with barely disguised contempt , correct you , telling you how foolish you would have been to buy such footwear , how lucky it was you came here first , and convincing you that for only an extra £65 you can have the boot you really need . |
| 16 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 17 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 18 | What it will do is to identify those kinds of misspelling that most pupils are likely to make : appropriate teaching at this stage helps to avoid remedial teaching later . |
| 19 | Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia . |
| 20 | I am sorry I ca n't be any more help with that at this stage what I can do is to take that question away and circulate the information after I 've done some sums . |
| 21 | It is something I , I think inherent in the nature of philosophical questions , that probably the very best a philosopher can do is to test some way of seeking to formulate the nature of human knowledge and the relation of the thinking man to the world , erm test some way in which one seeks to render that explicit and self-conscious , to destruction . |
| 22 | All that formational analysis can do is to put sociological questions to that general history and , at times , from these questions , suggest new areas for detailed research . |
| 23 | What a book can do is to present current thinking on the subject in a logical pattern in language familiar to the reader , so that the concepts of project management are no longer foreign . |
| 24 | The final part of the procedure before analysis can begin is to see these categories of deixis within a particular discourse , operating at a point along a cline of activity . |