Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Fellow PFK readers may want to be aware of this , should they be fortunate enough to find themselves in , or near , the principality .
2 Although there are no perceptible weak links in this collection , the band may need to be wary of overburdening every track with intricate musical twists and turns .
3 A social worker may need to be aware of those aspects , and of the need to assess the client before forming a social care plan .
4 Second , such findings may have therapeutic implications , as optimal therapy for paritns with oesophageal alkaline exposure as well as acid exposure may need to be different from that from those with acid exposure alone .
5 The three questions in the centre concern the proper focus of RE , attending to what religious people may consider to be central to religion : the questions of definition , integrity and truth .
6 But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention .
7 ‘ When your Uncle Jim died , ’ Louise continued , ‘ and I decided to retire up here , it seemed the most natural thing in the world that cousins should want to be close in their widowhood .
8 Another criticism he makes is that it has an uneasy relationship with such values as justice which some people should consider to be important in human life .
9 The rabbi 's wife had insisted it was her role to attend to their epileptic daughter several times each night ; her husband must sleep to be strong for the community .
10 That aside , we should try to be happy with the body we have .
11 We should try to be happy in everything we do .
12 Aunt M. nags and nags , and Uncle John said outright that he did n't see why they should have to be responsible for me , when Mother was only half-sister to Aunt Millicent .
13 I must admit to being unaware of it before you wrote .
14 ( 2 ) The date , time and place of the proposed examination must prove to be convenient to our client .
15 On the whole , however , I believe that , though school assembly should cease to be compulsory as an act of worship ( largely because it has long ceased to be that anyway ) , there should be a place in the timetable for the compulsory teaching of Christianity , as long as Church and State are linked .
16 But this is where I must start to be careful in talking about ‘ our ’ love affair with the car .
17 Psychiatrists should continue to be involved in the assessment and management of these patients alongside other professionals .
18 Of course the reverse may also be possible , that hostility and resentment build up , but this is all the more reason that a social worker should continue to be available for old people in residential care and the families .
19 He advises that while the unit backs onto our store , as a self-contained unit , it should continue to be available for let on the open market .
20 Both Committees further considered whether sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 should continue to be punishable with life imprisonment or whether the age limit for this offence should be reduced to 12 .
21 Wainwright 's books must continue to be available to all who are prepared to accept his own work , as he wrote it , and as the product of his own generation ( and preferably bearing the cherished stamp of the Westmorland Gazette ) .
22 Economically it remains true that it is inordinately expensive to construct a system which must continue to be reliable without direct human intervention , for example under the sea or in space .
23 And the adults with whom they interact must continue to be interested in what they have to say , more concerned to answer questions and to sustain and extend their interests than to tell them what the adults think they ought to know and then to check that they can remember what they were told ( Wood , 1983 ) .
24 If a band can work that little bit harder to be more original , someone somewhere should start to be interested in their music .
25 In addition , why the controlled group chooses to be compliant , or why it may choose to be resistant to any process of control , is also ignored .
26 Gardens which have been carefully designed and closely planted may appear to be unsuitable for additional plantings of herbs , but a herbaceous border , for instance , which needs to be re-dug every few years , with some of its incumbents divided or discarded , can well take some herbal plants , to supply flowers and/or architectural quality .
27 Neurotics may appear to be concerned for others , but this is based on unconscious hostility towards someone , so that their concern that someone may die , or fall very ill unless some particular action of their own is done or not done , really masks an unconscious wish for their death : ‘ … the original wish that the loved person may die is replaced by a fear that he may die ’ .
28 There are two main reasons why mail messages may appear to be slow in arriving : —
29 You might want to be able to sort of get to their flat very quickly .
30 The relational perspective simply explores the social features of any knowledge process , regardless of any claims it might make to be independent of social determination .
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