Example sentences of "the [det] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , and well , well , one can be abrupt at times and the that could lead |
| 2 | Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so |
| 3 | They might also accept that some , if only few , among the many would grow ; and that when it had become operationally necessary or desirable a growing business could divide itself and in such a way that the divisions were suitable ‘ constituencies ’ for the democratic purposes of the co-operative . |
| 4 | I do n't see why , why the , the many should suffer because of the few idiots . |
| 5 | If he accompanied Buhler and Spear to the Colony Room , the latter would upseat Mike Mackenzie at the piano in order to play , for Minton , ‘ It Had to Be You ’ . |
| 6 | We choose to consider a system programmer 's view rather than that of an application programmer ( even at the assembler language level ) , because the latter would expect to use facilities provided by supervisory software to mask the hardware treatment of such things as transput control . |
| 7 | The latter would arrive by taxi or office car , and proximity to the time of departure of the train would be a sign of status . |
| 8 | Following their usual custom the accused kept the medal until the victim collected it later in the day when the latter would pay for it . |
| 9 | In 1614 the Prince of Wales himself had to be excluded from a dinner at which the Russian ambassador was to be present , since it was feared that the latter would refuse to accept a place on the king 's left if the prince were seated on his right . |
| 10 | The latter would regard it as their natural right . ) |
| 11 | This is feasible because the panels were prepared from radial sections of the timber rather than tangential ones , since the latter would warp . |
| 12 | Since it was frequently predicted that the pressures of the latter would lead to an increase in whole-class teaching , it is useful to supplement our comments by reference to more recent data , gathered as part of another project based at Leeds University , the SEAC-funded evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment directed by Diane Shorrocks and Robin Alexander . |
| 13 | He explained that he was definitely persona non grata with Rhee and that the latter would bring in his ‘ carpetbaggers ’ if he won the election , meaning Rhee 's supporters in the United States , Hawaii and China . |
| 14 | Ultimately the latter would choose a head of state and a government would be formed , which would be admitted to the UN . |
| 15 | The problem is , however , that it is of little help in producing a list of user needs : the temptation would be to say either that everyone requires the same information or that everyone requires different information ; the former would make the exercise redundant and the latter would make it impossible to handle . |
| 16 | Here the consequentialist differs from the non-consequentialist in that some of the latter would stress the importance of people keeping their promises and would consider it better if they did . |
| 17 | An expansion of the latter would enable a given stock of money to be used more intensively and would therefore tend to raise velocity . |
| 18 | The latter would appear to be the better view , since those who are ‘ likely to deal ’ would be the general public . |
| 19 | The latter would take place at much higher temperatures than those corresponding to 3% Rm . |
| 20 | The latter would seem to be closer to the truth . |
| 21 | Although the latter would seem to be essential , they could contain a large proportion of practical exercises , as is common in papers in mathematics . |
| 22 | At first sight , the latter would seem to come under the framework of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 ( RTP ) . |
| 23 | The reviewer summed up : ‘ For those who will not hear a word spoken against Churchill in 1940 this will be an infuriating book , as the watch the sharp , black-white chiaroscuro of Chamberlain v Churchill watered down to what the latter would call ‘ a sludgy amalgam ’ . |
| 24 | McKinsey said it was dealing directly with Information Consulting on the transaction but the latter would have to be relieved of an option owned by Saatchi before any definitive pact . |
| 25 | The latter would have overall administrative control and would be responsible to MEHQ for advising on technical and operational matters . |
| 26 | The former query , until recently , would have been classified in the ‘ Housing , property and land ’ section while the latter would have been classified as a ‘ Social security ’ enquiry . |
| 27 | The latter would have raised the cost considerably . |
| 28 | When the Allied Socialists met later in February 1918 MacDonald 's fears were fully realized — the keynote speeches insisted that the War Aims were not a basis for negotiation with German socialists : the latter would have to accept them wholesale before any ‘ Stockholm'-style conference of all belligerent socialist parties could be considered . |
| 29 | For instance , if the working class parties of pre-fascist Germany had really represented the class itself , the latter would have been more easily aroused than it in fact was , and the rise of fascism would at least have been a greater struggle . |
| 30 | If another hundred of Caraher 's non-transferable votes had been transferable first to Hendron and then to Magee the latter would have been elected in place of Burns . |