Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firms may not wish to prosecute an employee who has been fiddling them but may prefer to deal with the matter informally , to avoid bad publicity or appearing inefficient and the Possible loss of the confidence of their clients . |
| 2 | This means , then , that the sort of target group description the agency may want to develop for the advertising will be something like this ( for a brand of ice cream ) : |
| 3 | Whatever criticisms one may want to make of the quality of the evidence and analysis of the debate , it is hard to deny its effectiveness in changing the climate with regard to the control of the curriculum . |
| 4 | However , we wish to discuss and agree any amendments that you may seek to make to the contract in advance of you submitting your final binding offer . |
| 5 | It was also suggested that theologians may need to look at the theology of play in order to gain a more positive understanding of the entertainment role of the media . |
| 6 | You may need to stand behind the patient at first , to encourage him to move correctly and not in a ‘ dot and carry , pattern . |
| 7 | If it 's flush and you 're flush mounting the new one , unscrew it and prise it out of the wall ( you may need to cut through the plaster first with an old knife to help free it ) . |
| 8 | However , you may need to cut around the stalk and then twist , to hull some strawberries that are less ripe . |
| 9 | The answer to the first part of the question is that communication problems can be caused both by the sender and the receiver , but if you are frequently misinterpreted you may need to think about the message and the manner in which it is being transmitted . |
| 10 | Oh I should 've mentioned about the maintenance erm , we wo n't do anything about this floor until the rest of the things are sorted out , I think this is the least of our worries . |
| 11 | Pierceable gas cartridges must remain attached to the stove . |
| 12 | ‘ Miss Claybury , the most successful way to treat insanity is with kindness , ’ James told her when she insisted that a particularly deranged woman of middle age should remain chained by the ankle to her bed . |
| 13 | ‘ When I saw him , but he must 've come on the bus it 'd stop at the turn an' 't was about the time . |
| 14 | She must 've sneaked into the pantry one day when nobody was looking and taken a bite out of that jelly . |
| 15 | Of course we hope that Dounreay will diversify and look for work outside nuclear tasks , especially in the area of alternative and renewable energies ; but we all know that the fast reactor programme will cease in 1994 and I do not think it right that , as a matter of policy , the hon. Lady should seek to shut off the work going on there to reprocess nuclear fuel . |
| 16 | Accordingly , the draftsman should consider imposing on the tenant an obligation to ask the landlord , say six months before the expiry of the term which ( if any ) fixtures the landlord requires him to remove . |
| 17 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 18 | They conform to the same technical rules as ports de bras and must appear to pass through the centre line of the arm from shoulder to finger-tips and move within the two circles drawn by the elbows and hands . |
| 19 | You should feel uplifted by the close of play . |
| 20 | To return to the catastrophe of the Thorntons , it is basically all right , because you keep the rule that important characters who are going to die must begin dying from the start . |
| 21 | If these Institutions should become established throughout the kingdom , there is good reason to hope they will produce an happy change in the general Morals of the People , and thereby render the Severities of Justice less frequently necessary . |
| 22 | Her owner rushed to bring her a bucket of oats before she should become entangled in the fence once again . |
| 23 | Briefly , I should like to respond to the Secretary of State and to express my thanks to my hon. Friends who have contributed positively to improving the Bill . |
| 24 | I have often thought that I should like to push through the House a simple single-clause Bill which would reduce death and injury at a stroke : it would be to insist that road traffic operated with signals in the same way as trains . |
| 25 | Before we proceed to consider the question as to whether there can be a Christology which is not incompatible with feminism , I should like to point to the significance of this question for Christians . |
| 26 | I should like to express to the House on behalf of the people whom I represent and my party our deep feeling of revulsion at what has taken place and our deepest sympathy for those who have suffered . |
| 27 | He makes some valid points that I should like to bring to the House 's attention . |
| 28 | THE TYPICAL programmer sees a modern computer in terms of one or more high-level languages , together with a command language which he must use to communicate with the operating system . |
| 29 | But this growth rate should begin to decline around the turn of the century . |
| 30 | If a bench of two justices can not bring themselves thus to dispose of the case there was no other sensible construction of section 9(2) then that a bench of three must become seized of the matter , rehear the evidence and comply with the statute , i.e. convict or acquit on the evidence . |