Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [conj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ design for living ’ shown by a species is the outcome of this selective process and is related not at all to any eventuality that may arise but to the set of conditions , the ‘ niche ’ , to which the evolutionary process has confined the species . |
| 2 | A special problem may arise if at the time the decision is made the patient has been subjected to the influence of some third party . |
| 3 | The should arise because of the lack of any compulsion to labour , brought about by a huge increase in productivity coupled with the transformation of labour into a free spontaneous activity . |
| 4 | But , so far as I can judge of the matter , I should think that in the interests of the man himself — as a human being facing indefinite detention — it would be better for him to be told the reasons . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it is not clear from current Marxist criticism and theory , which in the rainbow coalition is often buttressed by Lacanian ideas of the decentred self , whether it is prepared to accept any form at all of a personal , subjective or affective response , or whether all that must wait until after the revolution . |
| 6 | What I 'm getting at is there 's no reason why we need , we should wait until after the surveys to start looking at trips . |
| 7 | He shuddered and replaced the glasses , before describing how he had spent a sleepless night worrying what he should do and in the morning had made up his mind to tackle MacQuillan again . |
| 8 | Children should see that from the way I act , not from what I tell them to think ’ . |
| 9 | Having had the pleasure of interviewing Ralph Gibson on the occasion of the publication of his major work ‘ Syntax ’ , for the now defunct ‘ Camera ’ magazine in 1984 , perhaps this review should begin as per the forward of L'Histoire de France : ‘ Dear Ralph Gibson ’ . |
| 10 | One must remember that at the height of the cement boom in this valley the number of men employed ran into thousands if one considers the barge trade as well . |
| 11 | Miriam : Yes , but you must remember that through the efforts of the older generation we have been fighting it , we have n't been tolerating it passively . |
| 12 | Looking back to the opening statement of the first article last month , we must remember that in the main we are thinking about these designs as decoration rather than as pure picture-making . |
| 13 | Indeed , we must suspect that under the interests theory the criterion of personal responsibility is no more than a function of social policy : the more highly the interest is regarded , the closer we are drawn towards unlimited personal responsibility . |
| 14 | Since most of my work necessarily consists in ( ii ) rather than in ( i ) or ( iii ) , I think I must conclude that on the whole I am happy in my work . |
| 15 | I must confess that in the case of Mariss Jansons , I have ( on record at least ) so far failed to hear quite what all the fuss has been about . |
| 16 | But it could only be done if there was this general agreement about the direction in which democracy in Britain should develop and about the role which Parliament should play . |
| 17 | ‘ Show me the house , ’ said the Greek , ‘ and if it should happen that on the way we meet a sweet-seller … ’ |
| 18 | One should note that within the text it is not until a good three-quarters of the tale has passed that Wilekin is identified as a clerk , in the exchange between Margery and Dame Sirith over the weeping bitch . |
| 19 | At the end of April , all three withdrew from the election after being placed low down in a kind of primary contest held among the United Left 's Madrid rank-and-file to help decide who should go where on the list of candidates put before the capital 's voters ( a candidate 's position is crucial to his chances of a seat ) . |
| 20 | She thought long and hard about what character she should go as in the fancy-dress parade . |
| 21 | A line constructed through the centres of the two circles cuts the left hand circle at Bishops Cannings and I must admit that at the time I did the preparation for the article thought little more about this point . |
| 22 | In reality , such a debate misses the point of the parallelism : the question is not whether , taken in isolation , B is more precise than A , but whether " king of Moab " in B adds any precisions to what we already have in A. unquestionably it does ; however , we must admit that in the case of " Aram " II " the Eastern Hills " we can not say that B adds precision to A ( unless perhaps the poet knows something that we do not ) . |
| 23 | Attlee thought that the coalition should continue until after the end of the war with Japan , however long that should take — and , as we have seen , it was expected to take another eighteen months after the collapse of Nazi Germany . |
| 24 | At the outset I should emphasise that in the proceedings the only question raised is one of law , to be answered on the assumption that the assignments were genuine and valid transactions and that there was no arrangement or understanding that an assignee would hold for the assignor any compensation received by him from the fund . |
| 25 | Erm I must say that on the clothing scene , because I did criticize it in my earlier statements , er that when I was so young I thought it was so frumpy and I was so pleased when I was married and got my own income that , you know , I could go elsewhere and choose something . |
| 26 | And we 've not had I I must say that over the years I might have had two cases perhaps when there 's been a query with regard to that in terms of packing . |
| 27 | They are also concerned that giving distinct roles to two separate groups of directors is divisive and that two tier boards might arise because of the split in responsibilities . |
| 28 | This unorthodox theory is based on inhomogeneous ‘ cold ’ accretion , the only differentiation being the separation of any lunar core that might exist because of the increase in temperature expected towards the centre of any planet ( section 2.1.16 ) . |
| 29 | One might think that with the nation stuffed full of church buildings , few of which are stuffed full of people , the last thing needed is to plant new ones . |
| 30 | We might think that by the end of this fragment there is once again a single version for both speakers of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |