Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Executive Committee shall meet not less than twice a year in every calendar year : decide its own procedure : elect its own Chairman and Vice-Chairman , each of whom may hold the office for a maximum period of four consecutive years . |
| 2 | This is obviously far more satisfactory than leaving it to a widely dispersed class of persons each of whom may lack the skill , interest and financial resources required if he is to take action on his own . |
| 3 | Together or separately , the two of them may hold the key to power after the election . |
| 4 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 5 | Topsel warns that playing with them may destroy the lungs and corrupt the air : ‘ There was a certain company of Monks much given to nourish and play with Cats , whereby they were so infected , that within a short space none of them were able to say , read , pray , or sing , in all the Monastery . |
| 6 | Just because not everyone may spot the toy gun in this ad and attach a certain symbolic significance to it , it does not mean that it is not there nor that it has no effect . |
| 7 | She says I think everyone should have the freedom to be able to travel as and when they choose , not just the people lucky enough to be able to afford a car . |
| 8 | I think everyone should have the freedom to be able to travel as and when they choose — not just the people who are lucky enough to be able to afford a car |
| 9 | County council chairman Ted Wood said everyone should have the right to vote . |
| 10 | But then , to my mind , the person that who , who threatens to punch the lights out and gets whatever they want , everyone should get the degree of service . |
| 11 | God 's intention is that everyone should enjoy the birthright of assurance . |
| 12 | We broadly support the notion that everyone should enjoy the right of access to the countryside , although we also believe that with rights come responsibilities . |
| 13 | No-one should begrudge the win because , as holder of the cup , Western have not had the benefit of actually holding it ! |
| 14 | It seems that , while she was married to Earl Spencer , she regularly had her lunch and her tea in one of her silk and antique negligees , gave orders that because the noise might disturb her , no-one should flush the loo before noon when she got up , and was forever tracing her finger around the furniture to make sure the servants had dusted properly . |
| 15 | There are a number of University Scholarships as well and those interested in applying for them should inform the Faculty and write to the Secretary to the University . |
| 16 | Consequently capital owners or allied groups directly tied to them should control the state in industrial society and run it in their own interests . |
| 17 | As the four-man squad loped , half-crouching , along the space station 's strangely-twisting corridors , Ace and Daak were squabbling about which of them should guard the other 's back . |
| 18 | Anyone wanting to find if there is a judgment against them should contact the Registry at 173-175 Cleveland Street , London W1P 5PE . |
| 19 | Nothing must damage the relationship between us and the West . ’ |
| 20 | When visiting a foreign country , for example , I may feel that I have reason to obey its laws on the ground that if I do not I may bring the reputation of my university into disrepute . |
| 21 | Finally , without taking my eyes off the flowers , I may move the vase closer , or walk around the table and look at the flowers from different angles . |
| 22 | How often have those lines been my prayer : ‘ Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed . |
| 23 | If I may remind the house of the background to this . |
| 24 | That I may soar the sky , |
| 25 | Do you say , madam , that I may rent the room ? ’ |
| 26 | That much is made clear by Shakespeare , early on in the sequence , as if to forestall suspicion or criticism , in Sonnet 20 , which his protagonist addresses to the deuteragonist ( if I may borrow the terminology of the historians of drama to stress the fictive , dramatic status of the personae in these poems ) : That is as clear a statement of the non-sexual relationship between the two personae as could be wished for , and a wittier one than most . |
| 27 | But I may monitor the progress of this team called the ‘ Cheats ’ along with our other entries . |
| 28 | ‘ I may inspect the accommodation ? ’ |
| 29 | Foolish because I may know the answer already and just be testing you . |
| 30 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |