Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " 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 | Despite her anxiety she registered both the relief that Phoebe should have acted so promptly and a tiny flicker of jealousy , which she quickly quashed . |
| 11 | He did n't answer and I should have walked away then and there . |
| 12 | These policies should bear in mind principles such as that when children leave school they should have acquired as far as possible : |
| 13 | And another man , who should have known better even though he was from Southfields , had announced that Wimbledon was ‘ on the dull side . |
| 14 | She had never fully understood why her life should have changed so suddenly and drastically , though she knew by rote the duties and privileges of married ladies , and did her best to play her part decorously . |
| 15 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 16 | But she should have got as far as London . |
| 17 | Er I th I think if the honourable member pays attention he will appreciate that the boundaries are the nub of the issue in terms of er electoral systems and the common electoral system to which this country is a signatory in agreeing that that should be where we are er headed , is a principle which I believe that this er commission should have been asked to address , it should have been what was happening er at this time in the history of the European parliament , should have happened long ago but sadly it 's a principle which both Labour and Conservative governments in the past have preferred to ignore frankly for their own electoral benefit . |
| 18 | According to Tiw , the journey down to Moloch should have taken slightly less than two hours . |
| 19 | I should have thought more deeply before I agreed , but that 's not how fools charge in . |
| 20 | After several minutes had passed without her finding a familiar landmark , Luce realised she must have gone wrong somewhere and tried to double back . |
| 21 | Marks must have retired long since but he might still be around and , on the principle that half an hour 's chat over a beer is worth a whole file of police gobbledegook , Kersey decided to enquire and found that Marks was still extant , sharing a bungalow with his sister and her husband in Newlyn . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , it seems to me that there is something a little perverse in leaving me your notes on the making of the Big Glass when you must have known perfectly well that they contained material I would be certain to find offensive . |
| 25 | The intervening years must have rolled away uneventfully and only much nearer our time do records appear of the development of village life . |
| 26 | Alone with Henrietta , the woman he came closest to loving , Minton must have confronted more forcibly than ever before the nature of his condition . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Admittedly Ordovician graptolite zones must have lasted much longer than the ammonite zones of the Mesozoic , but nevertheless the time scale is still surprising . |
| 29 | If there were two designers they must have worked closely together and shared the same highly trained team of executants . |
| 30 | 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 . |