Example sentences of "[vb mod] soon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concessions must soon be made . ’ |
| 2 | Old feuds of race were diminishing , rivalries and prejudices were by degrees fading out.Such frequent and such intimate relations had thus been established between nations , that it seemed as if they must soon unite in one family , in one single federal state . |
| 3 | This may be smugly satisfying to those of us who sit on the sidelines , but even ardent moralists must soon start to wonder whether the Boesky boom in show trials has overplayed itself . |
| 4 | We need a man , a strong man , now ; for I am myself old and must soon die . ’ |
| 5 | In this way F must soon be interpreted as standing for ‘ Fail ’ . |
| 6 | But as he and Sara looked about their new home in a winter twilight , they must soon have recognized that the Lime Street cottage would be one major obstacle in the path to contentment of any kind . |
| 7 | Coleridge must soon have taken the poem to read to the Wordsworths , and in the following month had an even more substantial achievement to show them . |
| 8 | In contradistinction to the indolent paupers who sponged off the Poor Rate and exploited pay make-up , and the hard-working landless town dweller who also suffered , he further cited the most respectable portion of the peasantry who were prevented from rising above the nominal low price of hire , so that the wage level ‘ must soon fall too low to allow the most abstemious worker to maintain himself . |
| 9 | So Eddy 's discovery should imply that the Sun is merely in a temporary phase of contraction , which must soon be halted and reversed . |
| 10 | She was about to extend an invitation when their visitor said , ‘ I must soon be on my way . |
| 11 | I knew I must soon arrange the memorial party , and the perfect opportunity arose with a letter from one of my closest friends , Margo , now living in Australia , who was planning a trip to Europe with her husband later that summer . |
| 12 | In a study of potential nursing home residents it was observed that the old people were likely to undergo a major psychological upheaval as they realised that they must soon give up their own homes and accept institutionalisation for the rest of their lives ( Tobin and Lieberman , 1976 ) . |
| 13 | North Korea 's Kim Il Sung must soon decide whether to make a nuclear bomb . |
| 14 | An article in May 1992 in Waste Age , an American magazine , on landfill capacity in North America , opened with a quotation from a federal official in 1889 : ‘ Appropriate places for [ refuse ] are becoming scarcer year by year , and the question as to some other method of disposal … must soon confront us . ’ |
| 15 | As I see it , we are at a crossroad where far-reaching decisions must soon be made by women , by local authorities and central government . |
| 16 | One might start by repeating examples done by previous mental-art-scientists to get the feel of what it 's about , but since each brain is complexly different from the next , so its expression has to be complexly different and one must soon press on with one 's own structures — and yet there is the universal bond of molecular structure , which is another way of saying " form/art is everywhere " . |
| 17 | To date there is little evidence of this happening within the NHS but it must soon occupy our attention as a matter of urgency . |
| 18 | In January 1948 a US official told the British ambassador that Europe must soon he able to say ‘ no ’ both to America and Russia . |
| 19 | He conquered the still-surviving British kingdom of Elmet ( HB ch. 63 ) and extended over the men of Lindsey ( among whom the missionary Paulinus baptized at Lincoln and Littleborough ( HE II , 16 ) ) , a lordship which must soon have come to embrace the Mercians north of the Trent and , no doubt by slower degrees , those south of it . |
| 20 | During the past few days anxiety had shadowed his eyes like bruises ; they were brighter now and eager in their attention to the door through which his wife must soon enter . |
| 21 | Churchill in the cabinet in August 1954 expressed the fear that the United States , conscious that it must soon lose its nuclear lead over the USSR , might be tempted in the interval to try to snatch what advantages it could in the Cold War . |
| 22 | Similarly , in Jefferson v Cape Insulation Ltd ( 3 December 1981 ) Farquharson J awarded substantial damages to a woman who knew she must soon die of mesothelioma for her evident distress in being parted from her family : per Farquharson J : I have also to bear in mind … that the major misery this woman is going to sustain is not the pain , serious and terrible as that is , but the prospect which must be continually in her mind of being parted from her family , and particularly her youngest child . |
| 23 | To a French general , conscious that in the usual manner of things there must soon be a hunt after scapegoats for the Verdun disaster , Joffre 's calmly non-committal response of ‘ It 's up to you ’ can hardly have been comforting . |
| 24 | Heavily backed in what was probably a hot race , he should soon recoup the losses . |
| 25 | If the weather held and there was no attack , the build-up should soon be complete . |
| 26 | A suited smart alec , riding shotgun on rugby union 's suddenly careering shamateur bandwagon , this week told a group of British international players that they should soon be able to charge £1,500 for a solitary interview . |
| 27 | A suited smart alec , riding shotgun on rugby union 's suddenly careering shamateur bandwagon , this week told a group of British international players that they should soon be able to charge £1,500 for a solitary interview . |
| 28 | SHAREHOLDERS in Monotype , the typesetting and graphic arts equipment maker , should soon be put out of their misery as Robert Maxwell looks ready to make a bid ( writes James Morrow ) . |
| 29 | Under the prodding of the Literary Critic , the most shambolic writer should soon sort out his slipshod ramblings into a coherent story , with no unstated assumptions , contradictions , or logical gaps . |
| 30 | This was reasonable ; there was a draught , and I should soon get used to the room being a little darker and my not being able to see the sunset and the lights of the town shining in the darkness below like a handful of diamonds . |