Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 The number of strings which the algorithm keeps may range up to a few thousand , and each bit string may be a few hundred long .
2 The Freudian realistic view it seems to me , could n't allow you to draw either conclusion , you could n't , neither conclude , that things were better in the past and therefore we ou ought to go back to the golden age , nor , could you conclude that things will ever be any better in the future .
3 The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all .
4 I ought to go down to the police station .
5 They ought to stand up to the goons . ’
6 For some reason , this letter so unnerved her that she thought she must rush down to the sea at once , and run the thudding in her head quite out of it .
7 Every user of LIFESPAN must log on to the system via a unique user name and password , allocated in this way .
8 The initial effort concentrated on the applicability gap , where the working party recommended : ( i ) that there should be a programme of collaborative research between the IT research community and the other engineering communities supported by the Engineering Board , ( ii ) that the research projects should be jointly funded by ITAB and the Engineering Board , and , ( iii ) that funding should build up to a total of £10 million per annum over five years .
9 Again , you should log in to the VAX as the LIFESPAN Manager , and type :
10 The LIFESPAN Manager should log in to the LIFESPAN RDBI process directory ( i.e. where the 59 .
11 But by March that year the Chiefs of Staff were recording a victory for their view of the Middle East , and were arguing that this implied that Britain must hang on to the right to return to bases in Egypt , even in the absence of agreement .
12 But if a statement such as ‘ John is tall ’ is to be true , then the predicate ‘ is tall ’ must latch on to the world , just as ‘ John ’ does .
13 Since May was seventy-two when his book was published , it is clear that many of his recipes must date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth 1st .
14 According to Mr S Raisbeck of Selby Crescent ( assistant manager at the replacement Regal Cinema 1948–51 ) the whole of the north wall of the Regal is the original wall of The Theatre Royal and so must date back to the 1880s .
15 If he wants a depressing story , he should look back to the housing expenditure of the last Labour Government .
16 We were on a lonely stretch of road just outside London : it was late in the afternoon , darkness was about to fall and we were arguing about whether we should hurry on to the city or stay at some roadside tavern for the night .
17 The details of the timetable motion allow for just five days ' debate on a Bill which is 103 pages long , contains 94 clauses and nine schedules and which must report back to the House by 26 February .
18 I must work round to the subject gradually .
19 To define Rottweiler character , we must look back to the breed 's history .
20 He should face up to the need to release those much-needed funds for Scotland .
21 When approaching white water you should not have too much speed , sheeting out might be necessary , and the weight should move on to the back foot to encourage the nose to lift over the foam .
22 The invaders assembled at Stornoway were now divided by a bitter quarrel over whether or not they should move on to the mainland , only ended when one of the Earl Marischal 's supposed subordinates , William Murray , Marquis of Tullibardine , suddenly produced a commission granted to him two years before by James which appointed him Commander-in-Chief of all his forces in Scotland .
23 And for this reason I should move up to the company 's Gold Card program .
24 With the Tories moving on to more radical positions , and the Labour Party now much more centrist , logic seemed to dictate that this kind of Alliance supporter should move back to a Social Democratic outlook identical with that of old Gaitskellites .
25 ‘ Those who argue that maybe we should just once more try to delay it must face up to the responsibility that they may , by their good intentions , create much more suffering than anything we have seen so far .
26 Harris accuses Cole of ‘ stepping away from a system that must face up to the hypocrisy behind pretending to give a helping hand ’ and ignoring the way this system ‘ ( ab ) uses the South … and , in the words of Eduardo Galeano , ‘ spreads the haemorrage to cure the anaemia' ’ .
27 I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him .
28 The situation is defined as one where ‘ you ca n't tell a teacher what you 're going to do , ’ the child who resists must face up to the consequence that ‘ you 've got to accept that you 're going to get into more and more trouble . ’
29 They must face up to the limitations of the Western model — though the baby of Western expertise should not be thrown out with the bathwater of its failings .
30 We must face up to the harsh fact that the present social and economic pattern of farming in the EEC can no longer be maintained .
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