Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I exorcized the mental terror by talking about it , using the experience as a demonstration to students of the mental attitude one must try to adopt on an excavation . |
| 2 | It is ironic that Holmes 's acceptance of the meritocratic possibilities of democratisation should have led to an Act which allowed for the creation of the comprehensive school — but in fact the ideology he shared with other administrators was one that could embrace the comprehensive , which was , at times , argued in the context of a more successful way of providing a selective education . |
| 3 | This should have served as an encouragement to the authorities to develop this important aspect of community care . |
| 4 | The Minister should have started with an agreement on terms and conditions relating to employment protection and dealt with the other aspects afterwards . |
| 5 | Mind you Oxford should have won by an avalanche . |
| 6 | It might be supposed , however , that Francis Grant , as a newcomer to military life , should have entered as an ensign rather than as second-in-command of the company in question . |
| 7 | The ‘ Far Eastern ’ memorandum was a superb and elegant paper even though , in its abstract idealizations of how colonialism should have come to an end , it sounded rather like a secular Sermon on the Mount . |
| 8 | The large temples , Knossos , Phaistos , Zakro and Mallia , must have depended on an income of agricultural produce from fairly extensive rural hinterlands , from many villages , many estates . |
| 9 | It must have looked like an inkwell . |
| 10 | Kerry Evans said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that he asked Edward Browning about the blood , and was told that it must have come from an animal he had hit while driving to Scotland . |
| 11 | The financial year runs from April 1 , and by that time , departments must have arrived at an estimate of their needs . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it has to be recognised that several interests may feel threatened by an advertising ban . |
| 13 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll have to leave in an hour , ’ he said . |
| 15 | We 'll have to stay in an hotel . |
| 16 | And Thiercelin wondered whether of all the men in the Grand Army , he alone realized that the charmless , unpopular Davout was a better soldier , and a better man , than the emperor , and might have served as an example to princes , had he only possessed a little more humanity . |
| 17 | He implied that a united Germany might have to wait on an end to the division of Europe . |
| 18 | Give me a figure , that you might have seen in an advert , when you 're drooling over BMWs and things , Maseratis . |
| 19 | 205. ( 1 ) ( ix ) Land includes … land of any tenure , and mines and minerals , whether or not held apart from the surface , buildings or parts of buildings ( whether the division is horizontal , vertical or made in any other way ) and other corporeal hereditaments ; also a manor , an advowson , and a rent and other incorporeal hereditament , and an easement , right , privilege , or benefit in , over , or derived from land ; but not an undivided share in land ; and " mines and minerals " include any strata or seam of minerals or substances in or under any land , and powers of working and getting the same but not an undivided share thereof ; and " manor " includes a lordship , and reputed manor or lordship ; and " hereditament " means any real property which on an intestacy occurring before the commencement of this Act might have devolved upon an heir … |
| 20 | Are there any other factors , that might have increased , for an incre might have led to an increase in world trade ? |
| 21 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 22 | Norman Pereira has drawn attention to four points between 1856 and 1861 at which , but for the tsar , forward movement might have come to an end . |
| 23 | But as America and Germany were still at peace , and the leasing of the pilots was a clear breach of the US Neutrality Act which Hitler , had he come to know of it , might have used as an excuse for sinking American ships , the news had to be kept strictly secret . |
| 24 | The FRES estimates that their members might have had about 60,000 temporaries on the payroll at any one time in 1985 ( a figure broadly consistent with the LFS data ) , but that some half a million persons might have worked for an agency for some period in the course of that year ( interview with FRES ) . |
| 25 | and I 'd like to go as an army chef or an army mechanic |
| 26 | That explains how such externalized music — recitative , stilo rappresentativo and all — could have arisen in an age ( XVI A.D. ) which had produced the " ineffably sublime and sacred music of Palestrina " . |
| 27 | It has already been suggested that comment in C under 1020 , 1023 and 1030 was added from other sources , and E's entry on Archbishop Wulfstan 's death in 1023 could have come from an Easter Table entry , although the additions made by D and E to 1022 , and by D alone to 1023 , seem too extensive to be from such a source . |
| 28 | If the subjects with pneumonia were more likely to return for follow up visits than those without this could have resulted in an overestimation of the incidence of bacterial pneumonia among the drug users who seroconverted . |
| 29 | We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 . |
| 30 | Institutions might even consider sanctions : museums could refuse to lend to an exhibition if the public body behind it is falling down in its conservation duties ( a recent likely candidate for boycotting would have been the Titian exhibition in Venice in 1989 ) . |