Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |
| 2 | I doubt whether I should ever have experienced such wealth and depth of love , from and for so many , had I not followed … my vocation . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We must also avoid offering any challenge to legitimate Soviet security interests , ’ he said . |
| 4 | They must also want to please each other and help each other to find fulfilment , as well as looking for personal satisfaction . |
| 5 | Such an inspection should also help to identify any dampness or rot which has affected the boarding . |
| 6 | On the usual definition of money , most of this measurement would involve monitoring the size of his or her bank balance over the year but we should also need to make some allowance for notes and coin . |
| 7 | Donald and I , who as schoolboys frequented the South Kensington museums during our holidays , and returned by various routes to tea in our hated home , must often have passed that way . |
| 8 | BELVILLE : I think you should now begin to make another day in the week a happy one , as for example a Monday . |
| 9 | If you do not want a baby , but want your IUD removed , this is best done during a period , and you should immediately start using another method of contraception . |
| 10 | Anna supposed that she should then have had another baby , to keep Flora company , but had found that she felt as unlike having another baby as she had once felt like it . |
| 11 | I should never have sent that valentine — forgive me — it was a thoughtless thing to do . ’ |
| 12 | It should never have reached that stage where competitors got there under such circumstances . |
| 13 | It should never have reached this stage . |
| 14 | ‘ I should never have had that brat . |
| 15 | Yeah well he should n't have he should never have left that engine running cos he was n't |
| 16 | Specialist units offering treatment must therefore strive to inform all referral centres of its availability and their eligibility criteria for patients . |
| 17 | I should certainly like to consider that suggestion . |
| 18 | In this instance there 's nothing er and er justice Bingham er did say specifically that he was n't pursuing er the matter of er audit , it was n't his responsibility er the government should certainly have repaired that omission by pursuing it themselves , by inquiring er into er what went wrong . |
| 19 | Erm they 'll just have to sort that mess out . . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll just have to leave that problem until morning as well . |
| 21 | I 'll just have to get another job now after |
| 22 | You 'll just have to buy this video to see how it 's done ! |
| 23 | ‘ I think though that I 'll soon have to open another murder investigation to add to the one on Mills — yours . ’ |
| 24 | For example , a player whose regular opponent fields High Elves might wisely decide to abandon any attempt to out-shoot his enemies in favour of a fast , hard-hitting attack force combined with long range artillery . |
| 25 | ‘ True psychologists do not recommend siblings competing directly because they could become jealous and envious , and might even come to hate each other , ’ says Polgar . |
| 26 | He might well have made some bargain with the Plantagenet — after all , this Edward owed something , for it was here , to Dunbar Castle , that his father , Edward the Second , had fled for refuge after the disaster of Bannockburn when Patrick , as a young man , had received him kindly and provided him passage by sea to England . |
| 27 | Howard might well have experienced some kind of contemporary equivalent , and therefore , have been interested in the latest turn of events in Texas . |
| 28 | Shakespeare , who admired energy , might well have applauded this writing , especially some fine pages ( pp.132–154 ) on his mature verse . |
| 29 | Individuals might then seek to prevent such government action on the basis of the agreement . |
| 30 | We have been suggesting that career structures can serve well in the explanation of social behaviour which might otherwise appear to have little rationality . |