Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be a clause that a particular tenant may prefer to delete unless other factors necessitate its inclusion . |
| 2 | The management control process should endeavour to measure whether predetermined goals are being achieved . |
| 3 | I should like to urge that those persons particularly charged with drafting speeches and statements on United States policy have this problem brought to their attention , so that in any listing of Asiatic countries in whose freedom the United States maintains a continuing interest , Korea may always be included . |
| 4 | I should like to think that such rights will be dealt with speedily . |
| 5 | At the same time the adrenalin surge is itself a strong feeling and any strong feeling can be a trigger factor in stimulating the urge to use other mood-altering substances or processes — It is therefore advisable for people in recovery from any form of addictive disease that they should avoid gambling and other forms of risk-taking as far as possible . |
| 6 | One is that we should try to ensure that all parts of a measure are debated . |
| 7 | I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement . |
| 8 | reporting accountants should have to confirm that all firms have undertaken an ‘ expense of time ’ calculation and budget for the following year ; |
| 9 | I should have thought that hon. Members would have got behind the work of the regulators , who are standing up for the interests of the customer . |
| 10 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 11 | The compilers of the BMA code of practice for the safe use and disposal of sharps must have thought that many practitioners would be unable to comply with universal precautions because the code suggested that gloving decreased manual dexterity . |
| 12 | As for redefinition or reorientation of the overall enterprise , this material should serve to confirm that such developments are difficult but still possible . |
| 13 | Indeed , pupils should come to realise that biased sources are often very valuable to the historian in revealing the attitudes and values of people in the past . |
| 14 | This should help ensure that any recommendations made are both practical and enforceable . |
| 15 | The NHS reforms should help to ensure that these needs are taken into account at every step of planning and providing health care . |
| 16 | However , despite this evidence , prosecution would have been political suicide since the defendants might have argued that civil servants and certain government ministers knew of the oil sanctions-busting arrangements and therefore the company considered their actions , although technically illegal , were informally condoned by governmental officials . |
| 17 | One might have thought that these trends would not present major difficulties since one apparent virtue of the British constitution was its flexibility . |
| 18 | One might have thought that these divisions would at least cease to operate in church , but there too Kerr advocates a rigid hierarchy : ‘ The best of all systems of arrangement is to place the family and their guests in front , strangers of position next behind them , and the upper and lower servants , together with strangers of their classes respectively , in successive order . ’ |
| 19 | We decided to begin our search in the deep midwaters on the basis of the results mentioned above , even though , at first sight , biological considerations might have suggested that inshore waters were more promising . |
| 20 | We may like to think that such changes enable the organisation to be more efficient and effective in achieving its goals and yet it may well be that such changes arise as a result of trying to satisfy an individual 's political ambitions or to undercut the ambitions of a rival . |
| 21 | Sentimental producers may like to think that these programmes give the politicians a chance to find out what the people are thinking , and vice versa . |
| 22 | Secondly , the vendor may attempt to argue that sufficient warranties are implied by statutes , such as the Sale of Goods Act 1979 , to obviate the need for warranties . |
| 23 | You may have noticed that recent issues of NOTES have given people with visual impairments the chance to have NOTES on a DOS text file on computer disk , to use with aids such as screen magnifiers , synthetic speech generators or electronic braille . |
| 24 | Other calcretes may have developed as enriched horizons in soils near the lower limits of leaching . |
| 25 | The operating instructions/task description can be modified if the analysis reveals any problems from the operator 's point of view ; anything which the designer may have omitted or any difficulties the operator has in moving around , manipulating controls or checking information presentations . |
| 26 | This may have meant that these stimuli contained relatively little peripheral information . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is thought that the first domestic animals may have originated as wild babies brought home by the hunters for their womenfolk to rear . |
| 28 | 6.5 Similar leases The tenant , if taking premises in a shopping centre under a lease containing intricate service charge provisions , may wish to ensure that all leases of units in the centre mirror its own lease . |
| 29 | The fact that precious metals have so often been minted to serve as coins may serve to emphasize that precious substances are by no means confined to the summits of ecclesiastical or temporal power , even if their most prestigious manifestations were formerly concentrated on these . |
| 30 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |