Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councils may eventually cease to be major landlords ( Coleman 1989a ) and this dimension of fertility differences will have to be analysed in new ways . |
| 2 | As a consequence there are books on many library shelves which may eventually have to be withdrawn , with or without litigation , not because of their content but because of their intent . |
| 3 | It can be advantageous to put each formula on a stability test and to leave earlier formulae on storage when later different formulae are developed ; the earlier formula may eventually prove to be more stable than later formulae . |
| 4 | For Virgo , Fate takes a hand today when a delayed or missed connection may lead to a contact that may eventually prove to be very beneficial . |
| 5 | This was , is , and ever will be , Dick Hudson 's , which may justifiably claim to be the most famous pub in all Yorkshire , or indeed the world . |
| 6 | This was especially true in Scotland , and in particular , Glasgow , which may justly claim to be the deaf ‘ capital ’ during this era . |
| 7 | While cleaning staff are busy working on one floor , they may suddenly need to be directed to another room . |
| 8 | Hence , worthwhile projects may not proceed or may be unnecessarily delayed , and plans may suddenly have to be changed when constraints are tightened ( see also Likierman , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | ACT-UP is the organisation I should most like to be part of . |
| 10 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 11 | The Astropath must suddenly appear to be possessed — with lethal consequences . |
| 12 | The thing is that I should so like to be the first to know , officially … ’ |
| 13 | you know you should only need to be told once Christopher . |
| 14 | The newly-elected councillor must not expect to be elected to the more important committees unless he has special qualifications for any committee . |
| 15 | For strict conventionalism gives only the negative advice that judges must not pretend to be deciding such cases on legal grounds . |
| 16 | It contained the reading at Psalm xci.5 : ‘ So yt thou shalt not nede to be afrayd for eny bugges by night . |
| 17 | Because generations of hard working and poorly-paid working people have shown enormous resilience and good humour in coping with substandard housing , polluted air , lifeless local rivers and streams and degraded surroundings , it does n't mean that efforts to improve air quality , the quality of rivers and also , no less , the quality of the surrounding landscape should not continue to be made with all the imagination and expertise the community has at its disposal . |
| 18 | Companies should not continue to be penalised by a reference to an inherent uncertainty in the auditors ' report when the directors have given it prominent and full disclosure . |
| 19 | We who teach should not expect to be valued as ‘ professionals ’ if we can not be trusted . |
| 20 | The doctor should not expect to be able to direct and support patients and carers in all their needs . |
| 21 | In a clamp-down on crime , the Home Secretary has said that offenders cautioned by police should not expect to be given a second chance . |
| 22 | On the rates charged by the ECGD , my hon. Friend will be aware that it is necessary to strike a balance between the national interest in providing ECGD cover for capital goods exports and the interest of the taxpayer that that should not prove to be too expensive . |
| 23 | First , the voice should not need to be helped . |
| 24 | Teachers should not seek to be involved in every aspect of the school — administrative/clerical , catering and many aspects of the pastoral function should be contracted out to specialist providers . |
| 25 | They should not try to be fair to other countries . |
| 26 | He said I had probably done all I could ( little did he know ) , but that no one was omnipotent and I should not try to be for Jean-Claude what Maman had been — and still was , to some extent . |
| 27 | If that is support for an industry , I should not like to be part of an industry that the Government were against . |
| 28 | This type of linguistic material is sometimes described as ‘ performance-data ’ and may contain features such as hesitations , slips , and non-standard forms which a linguist like Chomsky ( 1965 ) believed should not have to be accounted for in the grammar of a language . |
| 29 | ( symbolic action should not have to be explained ! ) |
| 30 | At first sight it may seem surprising that if , as I am claiming , the superego is underdeveloped in welfare totalitarianisms because the means of state coercion are overdeveloped , it should nevertheless need to be dissolved in anything . |