Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prospects : A pattern which may evolve out of the failures above ; its failure , however , could produce a turning of the tables and the triumph of : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As Herman explains , ‘ [ c ] ollective action may result from structural ties between firms that integrate their interest and facilitate coordination between them — such as a common ownership interest — or it may arise out of a recognized common interest or mutual business interdependence with minimal personal contact and communications among the companies and their officials . |
| 4 | Other negative feelings may arise out of the learning situation itself , or the student 's total ignorance of the language to be learned . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , puppies in particular may rush out through the door in this situation , often ignoring the visitor , and could end up on the road . |
| 6 | Freud seems to give too much weight to the belief in Christ , and too little to the actual people in the church structures and the emotional ties that may build up between the ‘ secondary leader ’ and the believers . |
| 7 | But the brokers between the private sector and the community , such as BITC , say these sources may dry up in the recession . |
| 8 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 9 | Let's jump in at the deep end — literally . |
| 10 | In the process we may fall back on an idealized view of our own society , or take our cue from generalized impressions of ‘ Western ’ experience . |
| 11 | Hawks may swoop down from the sky and carry one off . |
| 12 | Every day the Ethiopian planes may swoop down from the sky . |
| 13 | Well let's catch up with the latest from the Manor ground , I think Nick Harris is back in the press box now . |
| 14 | About 1 in 10 has now followed this route over the country as a whole , and in the costly Southeast as many as 20 per cent may opt out of the NHS . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Every user of LIFESPAN must log on to the system via a unique user name and password , allocated in this way . |
| 17 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 18 | After Hercule died , it was suggested that Isabelle should stay on for a while — assist with the children . |
| 19 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Again , you should log in to the VAX as the LIFESPAN Manager , and type : |
| 22 | The LIFESPAN Manager should log in to the LIFESPAN RDBI process directory ( i.e. where the 59 . |
| 23 | ( c ) The causation of the public nuisance or the threat to public order must arise out of the use of the premises for the sale of alcoholic liquor . |
| 24 | If you must jump out of the loop , you should use UNTIL TRUE to " pop " the stack . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Curiously enough , it appears that there is no question at all which fits the adjective of a sentence like ( 59 ) closely , so that one must fall back on a metalinguistic one such as ( 60 ) : ( 59 ) the sharks remain dangerous ( 60 ) what did you say about the sharks ? 5.7 Since the property of the postverbal is one which the speaker deliberately chooses to clothe in the guise of an adjective rather than an adverb , it must , as we have already remarked , be one which is capable of being ascribed to the referential locus of the subject phrase . |
| 28 | It is for these reasons that Woolwich is not enabled or required to seek its remedy through the statutory framework , but must fall back on the common law . |
| 29 | However , where negotiation fails , the parties must fall back on the law , and their rights and liabilities will then be governed by the terms of their contract . |
| 30 | With patterned fabric , the design must line up across the whole width of the curtain . |