Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ' ’ This may fool it into thinking you are not afraid and therefore more powerful than it is . ’ ‘ |
| 2 | ‘ They ought to thank us for letting our Thing do their job for them , ’ said Gurder solemnly . |
| 3 | Negative attitudes are sometimes rationalised and disguised as concern , emphasising that disabled people may damage themselves by undertaking such demanding work ( Safilios-Rothschild , 1976 ; French , 1986a ) . |
| 4 | Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals . |
| 5 | Your long-term goals may make it worth sacrificing your two weeks in Turkey for a training course . |
| 6 | To inform them of who to contact if they have a problem plus benefits , discounts etcet etcetera , with particular emphasis on accrual benefits that may be lost if membership lapses , and the possible mention of loyalty benefits that may assist them in helping to recruit and retain other members . |
| 7 | In this factsheet we suggest possible sources of help for services or improvements to you home ; suggest ways of finding companions or live-in help ; and list some benefits which may assist you in paying for help . |
| 8 | Some fire brigades may bill you for coming out to help rescue an animal . |
| 9 | There were reports that senior ministers were insisting that if she failed to secure outright victory , she should consult them before deciding to carry on . |
| 10 | We should restrict ourselves to trying to understand , and then try to help them expand and develop what they want to say . |
| 11 | illustrations should be clear and attractive and , as well as being well-matched and giving helpful cues to the text , should enhance it by providing additional information , for example about the characters or setting ; |
| 12 | Prospective students , anxious for sun and romance as well as the release of their creative genius , should gird themselves by reading Swallow , Thomas 's novel about an Olympiad of storytellers which involves hours and hours of improvising in prose and verse . |
| 13 | If the complaint can not be resolved there and then , complete one of our Client Liaison Forms in resort and then you must notify us in writing within 60 days of the date you returned from holiday . |
| 14 | As a bachelor it seemed slightly shocking to Rupert that a colleague , even though an anthropologist , should think nothing of abandoning his wife when she was ill . |
| 15 | For now Great Nations must free themselves by releasing peoples they oppressed , not simply assimilate them , and that would have to include Engels ’ non-historic peoples . |
| 16 | Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations . |
| 17 | In the reply he is not allowed to introduce any new matter and must confine himself to replying to the points made in the discussion and to summarising the main arguments he put forward when moving the motion . |
| 18 | In this context it is worth recalling the long-established case law on the judicial review of a Community institution 's discretion where ‘ the evaluation of a complex economic situation ’ is involved : the Court must confine itself to examining whether the exercise of the discretion contains a manifest error , or constitutes a misuse of power or whether the institution did not ‘ clearly ’ exceed the bounds of its discretion . |
| 19 | ‘ We should confine ourselves to maintaining safety and not restrict people 's freedom of expression , ’ he said . |
| 20 | But to say ‘ well we may run into erm problems which we ca n't at the moment foresee , or problems which may make life temporarily a little difficult ’ I do n't think should prevent us from tackling the problem . |
| 21 | However , it should prevent anyone from mismanaging the waste and may include details of the business or process producing it in addition to a description of the physical ( or chemical ) nature . |
| 22 | One day we really must do something about clearing them out . |
| 23 | And they must do it without letting off any light , or the sky would be aglow with the death throes of neutrinos to this day . |
| 24 | Opposition Members should study them before going into the Committee . |
| 25 | It is the emotional and dynamic tug of a story which must prevent us from reading in too literal a spirit . |
| 26 | His verbal rockets would doubtless already be primed , but she must defuse them by getting in first and establishing that the woman he faced today was a woman of determination , a woman prepared to fight , a woman who would be a fearsome opponent in any battle . |
| 27 | But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope . |
| 28 | Right so you 're given a date on which you should claim them by do you ? |
| 29 | From the skies above , incoming missiles blaze their trail to your cities , and you must defend them by hitting them before they hit you . |
| 30 | Your heroic blue robot must defend itself by obliterating the approaching red robots . |