Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who make rules should stick to them . |
| 2 | If exchange relationships were based totally on unscrupulous self-interested behaviour , the resulting distrust and the cost of legal action to enforce contracts would render market coordination much less efficient than it is in the presence of trust built up through networks and embedded social expectations that contracts will be honoured . |
| 3 | Do you think employers would take to her ? |
| 4 | Ramsey 's winning shot guarantees Giants will qualify for the semi-finals with Southern group leaders Kingston and Bracknell . |
| 5 | Telepoint phones can make only outgoing calls but Hutchison feels its £50m investment in setting up over 12,000 base stations to transmit calls will overcome earlier problems . |
| 6 | A company requiring someone with organizing skills might ask you what skills you 'll be bringing to the job . |
| 7 | The President 's letter reflects mounting concern among solicitors that the Legal Aid Board 's franchising proposals may conceal a hidden agenda on the Lord Chancellor 's part . |
| 8 | Voluntary assistance in preparing and auditing accounts could become hard to come by . |
| 9 | Those using GMOs will face a new general ‘ duty of care ’ to prevent significant harm to the environment . |
| 10 | The report concluded that ‘ all the evidence is that while a gradual change in eating patterns may yield slower results , those results are far more likely to prove permanent ’ . |
| 11 | A few carefully placed lamps will provide atmosphere and show off the surrounding plants . |
| 12 | Velvet Scoter are virtually confined to the sea or sometimes tidal waters , but oiled birds may visit fresh water near the coast ; there are two very old inland records , and single birds were seen at Weir Wood Reservoir on 1 February 1970 and Darwell Reservoir on 12 November 1972 . |
| 13 | Interest rates could soar , asset prices could fall or cash flows could dry up . |
| 14 | The doctor in the Accident and Emergency Department told them that Sally had been very lucky ; sniffing aerosols can kill at the first attempt , and some people 's hearts are affected . |
| 15 | The Royal College of Nursing has expressed its particular concern that trust employers might offer a poor deal to nurses who want to undertake training courses . |
| 16 | Remove seedlings from windowsills at night , as even centrally heated houses can become icy near the windows . |
| 17 | For detailed discussion of the distinction between an offer and an invitation to treat readers should turn to standard law textbooks and refer to such cases as Fisher v Bell ( 1961 ) and Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists ( Southern ) Ltd ( 1953 ) . |
| 18 | First of all Birmingham again colleagues , it will be very helpful and will save time if intended speakers would come down to the front |
| 19 | In other cases , especially if space is limited , handling sessions will take place in a special classroom , where there may be other related resource material available and where practical follow-up activities can be carried out . |
| 20 | Note 2 to Rule 20.2 stipulates that , in the case of a management buy-out or similar transaction , competing offerors should receive the same information as that passed by the target company or the management to external funders of the buy-out . |
| 21 | It is important that regular eye tests are given , and that any ophthalmic appointments are kept as levels of vision in the case of children using spectacles may alter . |
| 22 | A request by opposition parties to allow a transitional period during which the newly formed parties could prepare for elections was refused on the grounds that the election dates were specified in the Constitution . |
| 23 | A few earned 18s or more , and a handful , who became readers could earn even higher wages , though rarely anything like 32s in the period up to 1910 . |
| 24 | Former drug abusers fear addicts could die if a rehabilitation centre is forced to close . |
| 25 | Competitions for practical designs usually imply that prizewinning entries will find their way into the market , but in reality they often fail to find a manufacturer . |
| 26 | Because you 've got , I do n't think cars can cross it , or if it 'll lift up . |
| 27 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 28 | The Radcliffe rules , invented in 1976 following the row about Richard Crossman 's controversial diaries , say ex-ministers should launder names of , and verbatim conversations with , officials . |
| 29 | Reporters can not be everywhere and so press releases can help to ensure that newsworthy events receive the publicity they deserve . |
| 30 | If on the other hand the risk-free hedge 's return is inferior to the risk-free rate the supply of investors offering to write calls will contract thus reducing supply and , ceteris paribus , reducing the price of the call option . |