Example sentences of "to [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know now that someone in a coma may still hear and react emotionally when they are nursed and that how they are treated and spoken to may affect their recovery . |
| 2 | Quite a few of the ‘ cricket is boring ’ brigade of know-alls came to may house for Sunday tea , and went away entranced by a brilliant finish involving the last-minute heroics of a David Bairstow or an Eddie Barlow . |
| 3 | If they freely abdicate that power , what they consent to may have popular support , but it is not democracy . |
| 4 | By that time the person you were speaking to may have left ! |
| 5 | Each House has its privileges ( though many are identical ) and whilst the modus vivendi above referred to may inveigh against interference by the ordinary courts into the affairs of the House of Commons , it is not at all clear that it precludes comment by the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords on the affairs of the House of Lords . |
| 6 | How tragic that the one man she trusted and felt close to should have deceived her . |
| 7 | A second problem is that it seems somehow contradictory that to should have meaning in some of its uses but not in others . |
| 8 | He was thinking that the night Minch had referred to must have been the one when he had made a plea to the powers that rule the skies where eagles fly . |
| 9 | The player thrown to must try and catch the bomb before it explodes . |
| 10 | Maybe it is , but what does it mean wh what sort of thing might it refer to might think of a couple of fairly obvious ones . |
| 11 | I today did you do one bulls eye no not cut up the thing and say which sport does this person belong to might get a picture of Rob Andrews see if they stick rugby or tennis on . |
| 12 | Those councils which wanted to could make up for lost grant by increasing rate levels , and many did so , so that overall levels of spending did not fall significantly . |
| 13 | Some legitimately if they wanted to could gain business from going in all of them . |
| 14 | Anyone who really wanted to could get in with no trouble at all . ’ |
| 15 | He thought that none of those he had spoken to could have told him anything of the killing . |
| 16 | Anyone to latch your restless dreams on to would do . |
| 17 | We smoked dope and people who wanted to would take sillacybin , mescalin or LSD , and that was literally it . |
| 18 | Considering that Belfast was not involved in that event fifty years previously one might have hoped that those so minded to would have contented themselves with attending the ceremony in Dublin , less than a hundred miles away . |
| 19 | None of the companies we spoke to would forecast how many cars they aim to sell in 1993 , nor how many customers who would previously have bought kits are expected to switch to type-approved cars . |
| 20 | If you if any of if you have say er any problems with the people in the flats that you could actually go to would help you in any way ? |
| 21 | Large SAE to will bring details . |
| 22 | He assumes that entities referred to will remain constant , that the temporal setting will remain constant , that the locational setting will remain constant , unless the speaker indicates some change in any of these , in which case the hearer will minimally expand the context . |
| 23 | ‘ Whatever future conclusion we may reach as to this , we can not deny that an object once attended to will remain in the memory , whilst one inattentively allowed to pass will leave no traces behind . ’ |
| 24 | And then there was the attempt not to issue a questionnaire to every household but to reserve the questionnaires in the Town Hall for four week days Saturdays to will honour the people who did n't actually have Friday who were at home perhaps walk in to the City Centre you might be able to pick one of these up and then there was the problem distrib in distributing the questionnaire because despite of the assurance given to the consultants they were nevertheless distributed amongst the numerous St Albans and believe you me even those likely people who did go to the press do sometimes for every that we having suddenly fully congressed to see whether perhaps there might be a consultation questionnaire lurking within it . |
| 25 | For families who are distressed and sad , talking and being listened to will help . |
| 26 | Can I just make the point of clarification in what said there , that as far as staffing additional works spread through for example we are assuming that staff costs are within the figures you are looking at and the the work that was referring to was was after you made your decision to will need to take some element of that cost into the start of the budget there is no staff figures that would occur after you 've formalised this budget we are not aware of so there there will be . |
| 27 | Makers will not be obliged to offer the guarantee but those who decide not to will have to display a prominent notice saying ‘ no consumer guarantee ’ . |
| 28 | A rise in the rate of interest from to will reduce the level of investment by , and the effect of this on the level of equilibrium income will depend on the size of the multiplier , . |
| 29 | Any man who wants to can go ashore for the afternoon . |
| 30 | If her sister so wishes , she to can leave — also without references . |