Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , we must take care to be clear in our own minds as to the accuracy we require for our research . |
| 2 | Regulators should resist pressure to be lenient |
| 3 | The first order of meaning is available to participants but the second order of signification is a ‘ hidden ’ level of meaning in that it is not readily available to participants ( who might believe striptease to be erotic ) and needs to be generated by an analyst who knows that it is there and so looks for it . |
| 4 | From the sudden change in Rune Christensen 's demeanour it seemed she might have cause to be optimistic . |
| 5 | The burdens of organising , public speaking and reacting to rapidly changing circumstances were so great that few of those responsible for the new unionism could lay claim to being efficient administrators . |
| 6 | But here 's a toast to all those who played a part in this fall of a climbing journalist : my climbing friends , the helicopter rescue team , the doctors and nurses and our superb National Health Service ( coming from Ebbw Vale I knew one day I 'd have cause to be thankful to Aneurin Bevan ) . |
| 7 | With the low volume of piston-powered traffic one would expect fuel to be expensive — and it is : 70–75 pence per litre . |
| 8 | Flat rate farmers will not be required to keep detailed records , but Customs would expect paperwork to be available if a check of transactions became necessary . |
| 9 | Whatever their basis in nefarious dealings , misunderstood intelligence , or dreams , noble things were being attempted , and if they came off the world would have cause to be grateful . |
| 10 | [ Ch 14 ] It is with a more elaborate example of this type of fanciful similitude that the impersonal " Dickens " introduces Mrs Rouncewell : She is a fine old lady , handsome , stately , wonderfully neat , and has such a back , and such a stomacher that if her stays should turn out when she dies to have been a broad old-fashioned family fire-grate , nobody who knows her would have cause to be surprised . |
| 11 | In my family you shall have reason to be merry . |
| 12 | He thinks that because you are a good master you will want Yussuf to be happy and so will pay a lot . ’ |
| 13 | In time of crisis , the West will have reason to be grateful for its defences . |
| 14 | For this , Mr Gorbachev will have cause to be grateful , for a 15-month total ban on strikes is dangerous and unworkable nonsense . |
| 15 | If in the year 2000 the EC is able to pass these tests as well as it does today , but on the altogether higher plane which 1992 implies , the rest of Europe , like the rest of the world , will have cause to be grateful . |
| 16 | If you survive the quicklime and urine , you will have chair to be proud of , that will give pleasure for years to come . |
| 17 | You can consider exercise to be any movement you make . |
| 18 | Banking can lay claim to being one of the world 's earliest multinational industries with financiers in Lombardy ( Italy ) lending money to various European royal houses in the 1300s . |
| 19 | Similarly , we can criticise wilko for being negative — but we do nt know if he s told the team to go out there and score at all costs , but the team just has nt responded . |