Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These benchmarks would indicate to teachers the things which all children ought to know at a particular stage of their development . |
| 2 | Some executives may resign at a Daiwa board meeting that is due to be held on May 18th . |
| 3 | It is my considered opinion that we should stay at a safe distance and await further developments . ’ |
| 4 | Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever . |
| 5 | There are literally hundreds of these , and you should look at a catalogue of the Central Statistical Office to see what is available . |
| 6 | If you can not have a separate freezer you should look at a refrigerator with maximum freezer space and capacious food storage compartments . |
| 7 | If the money was there , I think we should look at a link . |
| 8 | ‘ If the money was there I think we should look at a link . ’ |
| 9 | But you should descend at a higher rate so as to reach 2500ft before you turn . |
| 10 | You must look at a film of him and do all you can to emulate his behaviour . ’ |
| 11 | Where the case is to be tried by a jury in the crown court , the judge should decide at a pre-trial hearing whether to admit the video as evidence . |
| 12 | There is , for example , the cultural dictum in many societies that girls should marry at a very early age , often prior to puberty . |
| 13 | I think maybe I should stop at a supermarket . |
| 14 | ‘ In about an hour and a quarter , the coach should stop at a signpost about five miles from here . |
| 15 | Mr Patten says the government must move at a pace it can afford . |
| 16 | ‘ Every estate which must expire at a period certain and prefixed , by whatever words created , is an estate for years . |
| 17 | If I should tell at a tea table in London , that I have crossed the Atlantick in an open boat , how they 'd shudder , and what a fool they 'd think me to expose myself to such danger . ’ |
| 18 | The aerial , a 0–9 metre dish , must point at a satellite hovering in space between 17° and 28° above the horizon . |
| 19 | It is rooted in his own quite complex philosophy but if we really wish to understand his argument we must start at a rather abstract level . |
| 20 | By some means or other the natural tendencies instilled by evolution , have to be brought under control , and the child must learn at a very early age that if he is to grow up and be happy , he must behave in accordance with rules and regulations . |
| 21 | Erm he erm I should say at a rough guess there would be at least eight . |
| 22 | Special considerations : the appellant was originally put on probation with a requirement that he should reside at a probation hostel which specialised in providing treatment for young men guilty of indecent assault . |
| 23 | Where we may feel at a disadvantage compared with moral absolutists with fixed standards is not in the claim to objectivity but in the sense of certainty . |
| 24 | If another competitor catches you up , they may overtake at a safe and suitable place , and you should give way . |
| 25 | The timely award of an extension of time may avoid problems which might arise at a later stage when a contractor submits a claim for taking extraordinary measures to recover lost time owing to the late issue of an instruction , for example . |
| 26 | The harm resulting from corporate discretion might lie in its impact on particular individuals or groups , or it might exist at a more abstract level , in the social disfiguration that the concentration of power in a small number of hands represents . |
| 27 | In cross-section ( Fig. 3 ) , the wound front generally has a rounded or only slightly angular profile , rather than the flattened cellular protrusions one might expect at a leading edge that was actively crawling forwards over the exposed mesenchyme . |
| 28 | The chief argument for putting the Callovian in the Upper Jurassic was that this stage was markedly transgressive Over a large part of the Soviet Union and that , therefore , this was a natural break such as one might expect at a major stratigraphical boundary . |
| 29 | The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial . |
| 30 | ‘ Declaration granted that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged , the Director of the Serious Fraud Office was required to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence he might give at a later criminal trial . |