Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people may regard painting as a childish activity . |
| 2 | Certes , Sir , it behoves you to do this , because it is for God 's service , and because I may pardon Rodrigo with a good will . |
| 3 | One may eliminate famine as a possible underlying cause of discontent , as the harvests in the five years before 1381 were at least average and sometimes good ( 78 , p.161 ) . |
| 4 | Easements for both gas and water mains may restrict development for a 4 — to 10 -metre swathe through a site , depending on the size and pressure of mains , and both are very expensive or impossible to divert . |
| 5 | Despite difficulties in interpreting arousal as a unitary physiological concept , it may make sense as a psychological one . |
| 6 | Furthermore an exhaustive lexicon of words may include words outside a normal user 's vocabulary . |
| 7 | Elderly people with mental impairment who can no longer manage their own affairs may need assistance from a social worker in protecting their finances by consultation with the Court of Protection , under the Mental Health Act 1983 . |
| 8 | A minority are unable to make any attachments at all and may need time in a therapeutic community ’ , Elliffe said . |
| 9 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 10 | ‘ You must regard exams as a joint problem you must solve together . |
| 11 | In ordinary politics , however , we must treat integrity as an independent ideal if we accept it at all , because it can conflict with these other ideals . |
| 12 | Additional question : " Do you agree that Uzbekistan should remain part of a renewed union ( federation ) as an equal sovereign republic ? " |
| 13 | Your alloted space in purgatory is reserved the moment you decide , for whatever reason , that a bottle of excellent but inexpensive champagne ( Safeway £7.49 ) must make way for a grander counterpart like Bollinger ‘ 83 ( Sainsbury 's £20.45 ) or , if the devil has really got to you , Dom Perignon ‘ 82 ( £44.99 at Tesco ) . |
| 14 | In time of special and genuine difficulty the Council will of course be prepared to extend the period for submitting applications but bodies must seek approval for a late application no later than the time when the application normally would be due . |
| 15 | You must consider exercise as a top priority for the future . |
| 16 | Where the offer is for cash or includes an element of cash , the offer document must include confirmation by an appropriate third party ( eg the offeror 's bank or financial adviser ) that the offeror has sufficient resources to satisfy acceptances of the offer in full ( although , in exceptional circumstances , with the consent of the Panel , a conditional form of confirmation may be allowed if the provision of cash is subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions ) ( Rule 24.7 ) . |
| 17 | This danger exists also in secondary schools where the governors ' report must include information in a prescribed form in relation to public examinations — in effect , a publication of results . |
| 18 | On the First Floor , we should display material from a Permanent Collection of RBGE-owned botanical artworks . |
| 19 | The African National Congress ( ANC ) issued a statement on May 12 , saying that the government had " become accustomed to ruling South Africa without compunction " and should relinquish power to an interim regime . |
| 20 | The central theme of the Bains Report ( 1972 ) is reflected in the following quotation ‘ … the traditional departmental attitude within much of local government must give way to a wider-ranging corporate outlook ’ ( Bains 1972:6 ) . |
| 21 | Following Dragutin Zelenovic 's resignation as Vojvodina 's member of the federal Presidency in connection with his election in January as Serbian Prime Minister , it was reported on Feb. 14 that the Presidency had agreed that Jugoslav Kostic , the President of the Vojvodina Presidency , should succeed Zelenovic in an acting capacity . |
| 22 | You should keep expenditure to a reasonable minimum as excessive expenditure may not be recoverable . |
| 23 | It demonstrates that there is a case for arguing that the child care system should no longer reinforce inequities but become a means of redressing them , and like improved health should see education as a proper means of laying foundations for the children 's futures . |
| 24 | Clearly if AI is to have some role within avionics fault diagnostics it must provide systems with a wide range of capabilities . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , within controlled limits and in certain circumstances , civilised life must provide room for a certain amount of transfer of that responsibility to the social and political structure , but human beings must never forget that parenthood is first and foremost a personal responsibility . |
| 26 | It was decided that before going up to Oxford , which in fact he never did , he should spend time with a German family in Mecklenburg and three months studying at the university in Jena , where he attended lectures on philosophy and political economy and made many close friends among German Jews . |
| 27 | Explaining this generation-skipping will require new physical theories ; those should provide pointers towards a grand unified theory of the strong , weak and electromagnetic forces , or even a substantial portion of the GUT itself . |
| 28 | 17.66 The SATs at ages 14 and 16 should provide pupils with a wide choice , but should require them to produce a number of contrasting pieces of writing within both long and short timed tasks and spanning the range from imaginative literary uses of language to the clear and orderly presentation of information and argument . |
| 29 | In short it should foster acceptance of a single data exchange medium for each broad category of device ( e.g. exchangeable disk , cartridge tape ) . |
| 30 | they must approach God with a due sense of his moral and ritual distinctiveness . |