Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly for the bride ; optional for the groom ( trad. males may prefer to keep to the old proprietorial ways ) . |
| 2 | During this briefing Mr Clayton said nothing about what medical evidence may exist relating to the nine children subject to Place of Safety warrants . |
| 3 | Supporters of the rational model may seek to move to the desired situation in one strategic move . |
| 4 | With the Institute as a theme I should like to refer to the Presidential Address of in London in 1927 who said , and I quote : |
| 5 | I should have referred to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , West ( Mr. Douglas ) , who comes from Govan . |
| 6 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
| 7 | I should have gone to the French police at the time , but I did n't , and now the evidence has gone . |
| 8 | He should have returned to the open prison on the tenth of August . |
| 9 | Added to this the partner of the black hole must have swollen to the giant stage in order that material can be transferred rapidly enough to give an accretion disc that produces detectable numbers of X-rays . |
| 10 | Traherne must have conformed to the religious requirements of the Commonwealth . |
| 11 | Something very funny must have happened to the hon. Member for Dagenham on his way to the Chamber . |
| 12 | When Hannah was a child , running water meant the stream in the field and such things as electricity , the internal combustion engine and even the wireless were available only on another planet or so it must have seemed to the average resident of this remote and lovely but intensely deprived valley . |
| 13 | Though a reconsecrated Chad was shortly afterwards appointed bishop of Lichfield with Oswiu 's consent , this must have seemed to the northern king a high-handed way for the new archbishop to act . |
| 14 | And it is hard to ignore the significance of Smith 's Crisps , whose many non-meat flavours must have appealed to the young Morrissey . |
| 15 | If you join the game you must play according to the local rules . |
| 16 | The other connection that you might want to make to the rising main is one for an instantaneous gas water heater or electric shower , which need mains pressure , or one of the devices which alter the quality of the water — a softener , conditioner or filter , say . |
| 17 | As you are involved with bronzes , you 'll need to refer to the British Museum Catalogue or Roman Imperial Coins . |
| 18 | for instance , seeing how firearms had decimated their neighbours , they might decide to bow to the inevitable and offer tribute before it was demanded with menaces . |
| 19 | We can try to think of practical ways in which a minority of Tit for Tat individuals might happen to increase to the critical mass . |
| 20 | We 'll have to cross to the other side of the plain now to find anything . " |
| 21 | ‘ It 's possible that she might have gone to the young agricultural student — Farrel — who was here recently . |
| 22 | At least they had told me of their bad luck already or I might have succumbed to the old tales of women on ships and the bad omens they can bring . |
| 23 | With hindsight , he says , he can see the deficiencies in County 's and NatWest 's structure that might have contributed to the Blue Arrow affair . |
| 24 | Whereas in the past such external supports of the superego might have been strong enough to compensate at least in part for faulty superego development as a result of difficulties at the phallic-Oedipal stage and might have contributed to the unresolved Oedipal conflict expressing itself as a typical hysteria or obsessional neurosis , today , because such supports are in large part lacking , the outcome is not likely to be the same . |
| 25 | It is Possible that she might have come to the big city on her own . |
| 26 | Whereas once the working class might have looked to the middle classes for an example of probity and upright behaviour , now the middle classes looked to the working class as the custodians of vanishing tradition and folk culture . |
| 27 | By constantly changing its plans , from one type of waste disposal to another , the organization lost any claim it might have had to the scientific high ground . |
| 28 | Grainne was no longer quite sure that they were real , for the Castle seemed to her to be so brimful of lingering emotions and the resonances of the past that the footsteps might have belonged to the distant past , or the far-off future , or to a world outside Ireland altogether . |
| 29 | Both she and Dr Leitch spent as much time as they could spare talking to the young parents who would come to collect these patients on discharge . |
| 30 | I told him I 'd like to talk to the head man . |