Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy who has no dad , for instance , may paint dads all over the place ; the one with a new baby sister may leave her out altogether . |
| 2 | Some people may experience symptoms shortly after infection . |
| 3 | You may throw cells together at random , over and over again for a billion years , and not once will you get a conglomeration that flies or swims or burrows or runs , or does anything , even badly , that could remotely be construed as working to keep itself alive . |
| 4 | As saints may make use even of creatures of illwill for their own purposes , so surely can they with more grace employ goodwill where they find it . |
| 5 | Every nation believes that its enemies were the aggressors , and may make war again in a few years unless they are utterly defeated . |
| 6 | The High Synagogue now houses a textile museum and you may buy tickets here for all the museums in the ghetto . |
| 7 | To this extent , we may consider society today to be healthier than it was a few decades ago . |
| 8 | A man may pursue power simply as a means to employ others for his own purposes , but someone with the true passion for power will betray , by exceeding any rational design to control those useful or dangerous to his ends , that he does penetrate deep enough inside his subjects for the exhilaration of sensing their wills tense against his own and yield . |
| 9 | The GP should explain instructions clearly to the patient . |
| 10 | Patrick was right , she must build bridges now with Lizzy . |
| 11 | We should regard negotiations rather as the means by which we could establish formal agreements between our state and Israel . |
| 12 | Erm and and a point was raised in our our evidence given the existing overshoot of structure plan figures , erm the the the county county wide the figures have overshot the agreed structure plan figures , that should focus attention surely on on the need to more closely control the release of the committed land erm er that is currently without planning permission , through the development control process . |
| 13 | As well as having a good working knowledge of the subject with which you are dealing , you , as an efficient PRO , should also have at your fingertips the names and telephone numbers of people within the organisation who are competent to speak to the media on specialist subjects , and this list should include others apart from the brand managers and marketing department personnel . |
| 14 | Where the patient is incompetent , any analysis of the situation should consider children separately from adults . |
| 15 | I must pour wine also for Elijah . ’ |
| 16 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 17 | Er can I I started to comment on about the er , er bank accounts which are you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table and I think we would go further that er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names and all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of ownership of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would of er at least alerted these financial institutions , as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension fund and they still have ignored it in the case that er they did , but er er they would ha not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension funds assets . |
| 18 | So always treat those in exactly the same way as you would a normal roundabout , so that you 're coming up and always assuming that people should give way etcetera in the manner in which they should unless the roundabout directs otherwise . |
| 19 | That should keep intruders away for long enough . |
| 20 | Arguing that we should criticize literature only on ‘ literary ’ grounds rather than on political or personal grounds ignores the difficulty of making boundaries between the purely literary and the political . |
| 21 | He thought , I must keep Marcus away from this high-temperature religiosity , it will waste his time . |
| 22 | The failure of the play suggested to him that he should abandon symbolism altogether in favour of realism ; this was a fatal mistake , based , I believe , upon an accidental misreading of the situation . |
| 23 | In contrast , GR predicts that any such binary should radiate energy continuously in the form of gravitational waves . |
| 24 | The work should have relevance both to macroeconomic and microeconomic data . |
| 25 | Well we should have guarantee somewhere in the box there |
| 26 | A 1980 circular ( reproduced as an annexe to the Land for Housing circular ) stated that ‘ the bulk of future development must take place both by rebuilding within existing towns and by expanding the towns within the limits of employment of local community capacity , e.g. infrastructure and social facilities ’ . |
| 27 | They must take ferns home to their gardens — ’ |
| 28 | She must have shoes just like that , Emily decided . |
| 29 | But , Tufnell of course must have precedence there at the moment . |
| 30 | In other words , in the circumstances of the present case the wishes and feelings of W. , considered in the light of her age and understanding , are the first of the factors to which the court must have regard , but the court must have regard also to such of the other factors as may be relevant when discharging its overall responsibility for W. 's welfare . |