Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the child is in care no-one may cause him to be known by a new surname or remove him from the United Kingdom without either the written consent of every person who has parental responsibility or the leave of the court ( s33(7) ) . |
| 2 | I tried telling her she was wrong , which was silly really , because no-one ought to decide such things for anyone else … ’ |
| 3 | In a common curriculum , then , everyone ought to study English in this basic , practical , and user-orientated sense , whatever method is used to teach it . |
| 4 | If The Lord of the Rings should approach too close to ‘ Gospel-truth ’ , to the Christian myth in which Tolkien himself believed , it might forfeit its status as a story and become at worst a blasphemy , an ‘ Apocryphal gospel ’ , at best a dull allegory rehearsing in admittedly novel form what everyone ought to know already . |
| 5 | Everyone ought to be up in arms about it . ’ |
| 6 | Everyone ought to sign ! ’ |
| 7 | This is the question which everyone ought to ask himself , and the only question — are we as a nation in a better position to prosecute the war as a consequence of it than we would have been by any other arrangement ? |
| 8 | In 1988 , she wrote The Book of Spells , urging that : ‘ Knowing how to cast spells is a technique everyone ought to have , along with computer technology . ’ |
| 9 | Merit goods ( bads ) are goods that society thinks everyone ought to have ( ought not to have ) regardless of whether they are wanted by each individual . |
| 10 | ‘ Everyone ought to go home if they 've got a home to go to . |
| 11 | That everyone ought to live on unsurfaced streets ? |
| 12 | Everyone ought to get a . |
| 13 | Now look here , you trembling ridiculous creature , listen to me , nothing may happen and that has to be OK too . |
| 14 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
| 15 | Nothing may happen . |
| 16 | Not only may a campaign raise public awareness of the issues involved and win you new supporters , but the sheer relentlessness of pressure and eventual embarrassment at being seen to do nothing may also prompt parliament or Government to introduce new policies . |
| 17 | It is all so much work and nothing may come of it . |
| 18 | They 'd been duped into believing the gag ( nothing may be published without sanction from Lord 's ) protected them . |
| 19 | The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . |
| 20 | Ironically , at the start of a relationship it may not seem relevant to use anything as nothing may happen , so it may not seem worth all that trouble to get the Pill . |
| 21 | I mean it could be nothing may happen at all may descend on us and everybody 's and we 've run out of money . |
| 22 | And , nothing may me to buy it now unless it 's recycled . |
| 23 | Just because not everyone may spot the toy gun in this ad and attach a certain symbolic significance to it , it does not mean that it is not there nor that it has no effect . |
| 24 | Yet everyone may come into contact with the mentally handicapped at some stage in their lives ; indeed any one of us may be accidentally brain damaged . |
| 25 | That 's the problem with that attitude ; the doctor and the nurse and the hospital and everyone may be convinced that these problems are resolved adequately . |
| 26 | The buttery-hatch is open from dawn to dusk for the entire week ; everyone may eat as much as he can , and take off in a basket as much as he can carry , including clothing , ‘ for a Christian gentleman of high degree was Eustace Lyle ’ . |
| 27 | Thus , everyone may have the same wage rate , w , per hour and the same unearned income , M , but there may be differences in the tastes for leisure leading to differences in hours worked , L. As a result , measured income may vary — even though all individuals have the same endowments and market opportunities . |
| 28 | A S EVERYONE must know by now , 1992 marks the 40th anniversary of H M The Queen 's accession to the throne . |
| 29 | In 1666 a law was passed that everyone must be buried in wool . |
| 30 | Everyone must be made to remember that this is one country , the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan . ’ |