Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither precedent nor legislation is sufficient in its own right ; common-law principles may need codifying in a statute , and a statute will need judicial interpretation to determine the scope of its operation . |
| 2 | It had surprised Ruth that the Carsons should choose to live in a boarding-house , until she discovered that in New York it was quite the thing-always supposing that the establishment was high-class and in a good locality . |
| 3 | If you wish to live in central London , you should choose to stay in a hotel . |
| 4 | ( Why Jeffreys should choose to appear in a court at York is puzzling , especially in the wrong clothes for his time and in a building which was erected about 60 years later . ) |
| 5 | That Lefevre should finish lying in a place like this . |
| 6 | I should like to live in a community , Eleanor Thorne decided , I should like to taste the fruits of life in a small home , a retirement home , an old people 's house , whatever it might be called . |
| 7 | The female cuckoo can mimic only one type of egg and must try to lay in a nest of this species if her offspring is to have a good chance of survival . |
| 8 | At a more mature stage , the increase in sales volume should have resulted in a decline in investment intensity , while profit and ROI will increase if the investment is successful . |
| 9 | We should have knocked in a couple of goals and killed off the game . ’ |
| 10 | Associates of the Institute must have served in a solicitor 's office for three years and have passed four examination papers in law and Fellows must be over 25 , have served eight years in a solicitor 's office and have passed a further three examinations from a list of subjects offered by the Institute . |
| 11 | They must have assembled in a side street and now they were here , mostly young and apparently in fairly good mood . |
| 12 | ‘ You must have put in a lot of hard work . ’ |
| 13 | A man must have lurked in a car parked between two lamp standards , noting the time of arrival , the minute the curtains had been drawn at her bedroom , the second their shadows met and intertwined behind the window . |
| 14 | In short what you should aim to create in a dining room is a special atmosphere within a very practical framework , so when you 've provided for the basics you can add to the mood with window treatments , interesting lighting and decorative tricks to make the room as comfortable , as functional and as good looking as you can . |
| 15 | The English Courts can go no further , in the absence of a Bill of Rights " incorporating " the Convention into English law , than to apply it when interpreting ambiguous statutes , on the presumption that Parliament must intend to legislate in a manner consistent with the United Kingdom 's treaty obligations . |
| 16 | He 'd declined the butler 's offer to take his coat : he might want to leave in a hurry . |
| 17 | The main pieces of equipment that might need replacing in a system are the boiler and the radiators . |
| 18 | The clinical terms project was started last year to develop a set of terms comprehensive enough to cover anything that a clinician might need to write in a patient 's record . |
| 19 | The effect is warm and friendly , rather than the immaculate ‘ designer look ’ that you might expect to find in a house full of talented people . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll have to leave in an hour , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I 'll have finished in a couple of hours . |
| 22 | We 'll have to stay in an hotel . |
| 23 | Give me a figure , that you might have seen in an advert , when you 're drooling over BMWs and things , Maseratis . |
| 24 | Hereabouts , Beryl Love 's ashes must have been scattered beneath a rose bush , though he knew better than to think Ernie might have invested in a memorial plaque . |
| 25 | I thought I might have to paint in a taffeta dress or something ! |
| 26 | Rab said , ‘ He might have worked in a circus . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ How did ye mean , I might have worked in a circus ? ’ |
| 28 | A spokeswoman for the US relief agency Care said on Nov. 12 that as many as 40 people might have died in a gunfight between guards and gunmen who ambushed a convoy of trucks heading for Baidoa north-west of Mogadishu laden with grain for starving people , forcing all but one truck to turn back . |
| 29 | I 'll start speaking in a minute . |
| 30 | Yeah she 'll start crying in a minute ! |