Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councils may eventually cease to be major landlords ( Coleman 1989a ) and this dimension of fertility differences will have to be analysed in new ways . |
| 2 | Faith is something which is merely believed , so it must always expect to be open to doubt . |
| 3 | When the Bingham Report recommended a statutory duty for auditors ‘ to report to the Bank any information or opinion which the auditor knows or should reasonably know to be relevant to a bank 's fulfilment of the criteria in Sch 3 of the 1987 [ Banking ] Act ’ ( ie the criteria for being licensed as a bank ) , auditors ' reactions varied from the totally relaxed to the slightly concerned , but no one positively opposed the change . |
| 4 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 5 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 6 | She should now aim to be 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) below her starting weight on most days ; she should reduce sugar on cereal to just one teaspoon ; she should use less meat when making up meat meals like stews , using more vegetables instead ( this is as well , of course , as maintaining the goal for fat reduction from Week 1 ) ; she should have salted meat or salted fish only three times a week in total ( you will remember that salt goals last for two weeks each ) ; she should have one or two pieces of fresh fruit each day ( this is as well as the goal for Week 1 , having pulses with one meal each day ) ; she should have a brisk twenty-minute walk each day . |
| 7 | Inter area and inter authority variation may thus prove to be great . |
| 8 | I told her no messages had been sent and suggested that if Uncle was a businessman — I thought it better not to mention that we already knew he was a multi-millionaire businessman — he might naturally tend to be secretive and that he might also be reluctant to broadcast the fact that he had lost his yacht through what might have been his own fault . |
| 9 | You 'll just have to be content with the JB instead . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll just have to be firm with her she says . |
| 11 | So compared with the commercial clout of the continental magnums , they 'll just have to be satisfied to remain as miniatures . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's frustrating but I 'll just have to be patient . ’ |
| 13 | You could pull that loose too , so you 'll just have to be patient and lie still for now . |
| 14 | I do n't know who you belong to , Leonora , but no one 's anxious about you yet , obviously , so you 'll just have to be patient . ’ |
| 15 | He 'll just have to be careful he does n't melt his records ! |
| 16 | It might get to be a bit of a bastard , the next few days , and then it might just get to be amusing . |
| 17 | In Leeds , local councillors have been sheepish about releasing plans to local people for what might just prove to be one of the most inspired and humane post-war city centre redevelopments masterminded by the architects Terry Farrell and Rob Krier for the Dutch developer MAB . |
| 18 | So I mean , I 'm not gon na point the questions at anyone in particular , I 'm just like have them answered , but I might just say to is this normal for her to be late . |
| 19 | I think we 'll really have to be cautious and that one |
| 20 | The qualifying condition , however , in this particular instance , was that Mrs Beattie and Mrs Friar could hardly be classed as neighbours and even the most cock-eyed optimist would never even hope that they might even begin to be pleasant to each other . |
| 21 | One might even have to be careful about possible re-use of materials which would produce a radiocarbon result older than the true age of manufacture of the artefact . |
| 22 | In that case , the electorate might well prefer to be Red and live to fight another day rather than be consigned to a nuclear crematorium . |
| 23 | It continues to change , and probably very rapidly , so any gains might well prove to be short-lived . |
| 24 | This might well come to be true in secondary schools in England and Wales through the formulation of a national curriculum and the defining of national criteria for GCSE and the so-called benchmarks . |
| 25 | The teaching methods in the full-time courses were centred upon projects which sought to provide a simulated work situation , to integrate what might otherwise appear to be disparate subject areas and to engender in the student independence and originality of thought . |
| 26 | In addition to their other responsibilities local authorities may still continue to be direct care providers if they so wish . |
| 27 | Jesus was describing a fulfilled life which could only grow to be better and better . |
| 28 | But I could only attain to be thrilled and enchanted , as by the sound of a strain of music dying away . |
| 29 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 30 | Baldersdale was largely unaffected by contact with outside influences — to travel further than Barnard Castle , a prim and pretty little market town which could scarcely claim to be cosmopolitan , was virtually unheard of and such visitors as there were never stayed long enough to impart revolutionary new ways and ideas . |