Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politicians , accountants , television producers , newspaper editors and all such mandarins who have set themselves up as authorities with power to say yea or nay to us , to sift right from wrong , good from bad , lawful from criminal , and to decide what the rest of us may know and what we may not ( ‘ All the News that 's Fit to Print ’ ) exploit this wondrous paradoxical nature of language with uncanny skill to attain and retain their hegemony over others . |
| 2 | Or failing the gift of a sum in cash , I am asking you to make it a business transaction , to buy what you clearly must need and what we can no longer afford to keep . |
| 3 | The sufferer must know that what you say is the whole of what you believe and want to transmit . |
| 4 | But if you give me a blank sheet of paper and put a question , I 'm not really gon na tell you what you should include and what you should n't , yeah ? |
| 5 | We agree or disagree before we form any concrete opinions about which institutions or officials must act and what they must do in consequence of whatever rights we declare people have . |
| 6 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 7 | We should feel that what we do has value , whatever it is . |
| 8 | When I was young I co I do n't remember talking all the time about bloody health and what you should do and what you should n't do . |
| 9 | If that is the case , and if in these circumstances the [ defendant ] is guilty of theft , it must follow that anyone who obtains goods in return for a cheque which he knows will be dishonoured on presentation , or indeed by way of any other similar pretence , would be guilty of theft . |
| 10 | If that is the case , and if in these circumstances the appellant is guilty of theft , it must follow that anyone who obtains goods in return for a cheque which he knows will be dishonoured on presentation , or indeed by way of any other similar pretence , would be guilty of theft . |
| 11 | ‘ Newley must realize that someone he knows is connected with the theft . ’ |
| 12 | But modern prospectors should remember that what their forebears found , in the 1840s , was the accumulated silt of millions of years . |
| 13 | But since she had wrecked Luke 's plans for a country weekend with Lexy , and deprived him of the possibility of replacing her from the ranks of his unofficial harem , perhaps it was hardly surprising that he should demand that she herself should fill the gap . |
| 14 | This ‘ instinctive revulsion from regulation ’ is the foundation of his libertarian heritage and it gives rise to a particular vision of how broadcasting should develop and what its purposes should be . |
| 15 | Amidst all the changes which took place in Eastern Europe during 1989 , the opening of the borders between East and West Germany on Nov. 9 , 1989 ( see p. 37025 ) was perhaps the most significant event to NATO members in that it confirmed that such changes , in particular the evolving relationship between the two Germanies , demanded an assessment of how NATO should respond and what its future role would be . |
| 16 | It was with the end in sight , the last evening , as we were sorting out which of her possessions she should take and which I should try to sell for her , that I started to cry ; and cried and cried and cried . |
| 17 | That must mean that whatever we are involved in is conditioned by one overall fact : whatever we do is either to the service or dis service of Christ . |
| 18 | you 'll have to excuse me now , erm I must go and you you 'll take over . |
| 19 | By the end of June , you should realise that what you really want in your life now are love and security . |
| 20 | I must admit that we ourselves started out with a strong women 's following , but I think that 's because of society and the way men are brought up not to be so immediately emotional . |
| 21 | Blake felt it was like the muse which inspired him , and dictated from a hidden recess that he must write and what he had to write . |
| 22 | Ratting is second nature to a Jack Russell and through constant practice they learn the difference between a rabbit and vermin , knowing which they should kill and which they simply hold . |
| 23 | It explains how a woman may feel and what she and her partner can do about it ! |
| 24 | The political feasibility of dangling before Indians a prize at which they might gaze but which they would never grasp was assured , Irwin told Salisbury , by the fact that Indians in their heart of hearts knew they would always need British administrators to guide them . |
| 25 | It was quite another for Mary to spend her childhood and adolescence in the most powerful and civilized country in Europe , which was also Scotland 's traditional ally , so that she might assume that what she learned there was not the product of hostile bias . |
| 26 | ‘ If you think about it , you 'll see that what I say is true . |
| 27 | Although set up fairly soon after the coordinating committee , the Inservice Panel got off to rather a slow start , with its early meetings being characterised by fairly unstructured discussion of how it might function and what it might aim to achieve . |
| 28 | While applauding the women of anger , Miki was worried that it might mean that anyone who writes about anything less traumatic and violent is considered to be less important . |
| 29 | The terror , however , was not for herself or for the children but for Edward , who might realise that what he was saying was true . |
| 30 | 8. ‘ … are the only organizations that have been able to do what they do at all , even though it might seem that what they do is not that difficult or mysterious a thing ’ . |