Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Midlands it is the tree one sees most often : and for a brief spell in early sum-mer it is the most beautiful of all the Midland trees , with its continuous miles of white may blossom glimmering as far as the eye can see . |
| 2 | Goldman believes Sun 's financial model may need to change more quickly than the company can realise . |
| 3 | Both Salomon Brothers Inc and more importantly Goldman Sachs & Co have moved Sun Microsystems Inc shares off their recommended buy lists : basically Goldman thinks Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Intel Corp 's Pentium are going to be more than Sun can handle , hurting its ability to improve earnings on a sustained basis over the next year or so and impeding its gains in market share ; Goldman believes Sun 's financial model may need to change more quickly than the company can realise ; the long-term judgment is based on Goldman 's view of Sun 's business as 80% to 85% client side where it thinks Windows , especially NT , will dominate in client-server systems , even where high-performance client products are needed . |
| 4 | The control of downy mildew is preventative , not curative , therefore the vigneron must commence spraying as early as possible prior to the flowering if the first infection is to be prevented . |
| 5 | It is also worthwhile explaining that the recording is intended to capture the child 's natural language and that the adults should try to behave as normally as possible and should not make any special efforts to get the child to talk . |
| 6 | We must try to act justly especially since the situation within the church is often confusing and upsetting . |
| 7 | Norwich will feel they should have scored as early as the second minute . |
| 8 | Although the therapist was probably correct in initially providing a chance for Pamela to express her worries to someone outside the family , she should have progressed as soon as possible to helping Pamela and her parents tackle together the problems surrounding their communication and lack of mutual trust . |
| 9 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 10 | These policies should bear in mind principles such as that when children leave school they should have acquired as far as possible : |
| 11 | And another man , who should have known better even though he was from Southfields , had announced that Wimbledon was ‘ on the dull side . |
| 12 | But she should have got as far as London . |
| 13 | According to Tiw , the journey down to Moloch should have taken slightly less than two hours . |
| 14 | I should have thought more deeply before I agreed , but that 's not how fools charge in . |
| 15 | An example of the kind of executive pre-arrangement , which must have happened more often than we are told , is the way in which Demosthenes ( iv . |
| 16 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 17 | Alone with Henrietta , the woman he came closest to loving , Minton must have confronted more forcibly than ever before the nature of his condition . |
| 18 | The problem is that the invitation must have come rather late as Carolyn recalls : ‘ I walked in about six o'clock and Diana went : ‘ Quick , quick I 've got to meet Charles in twenty minutes . ’ |
| 19 | Admittedly Ordovician graptolite zones must have lasted much longer than the ammonite zones of the Mesozoic , but nevertheless the time scale is still surprising . |
| 20 | Those taking up job-release allowances must not take a job or set up in business on their own , and their employer must undertake to recruit as soon as possible a registered unemployed worker . |
| 21 | Sophie , darling , we must get married as soon as possible . ’ |
| 22 | The Star Council says we must get married as often as possible and have children . |
| 23 | Some records are worthy of special comment at the beginning of this chapter for they are sources that every family and local historian must learn to use straight away if he is to gain any understanding of the period before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 24 | Mrs Ephraim Cook did not agree with her , believing that every child should learn to read as firmly as she believed they should wash behind their ears every morning and not relieve themselves , like dogs , in the street . |
| 25 | It might have done considerably better than that . |
| 26 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 27 | His presidency , in other words , might have ended less ingloriously if he had been more like his successor in the White House . |
| 28 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 29 | The visitors might have replied almost immediately when Mark Stepney rounded the defence but put his shot wide . |
| 30 | Ekwall ( 1975 ) , citing Walker , notes that [ h ] -loss might have occurred as early as 1791 ; Brunner ( 1963 : 5 ) dismisses early ME spelling evidence with the remark that Anglo-Norman scribes were prone to use initial h ‘ incorrectly ’ . |