Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woody tubers may survive outside in a mild winter , but if they do n't , the seeds certainly do , emerging in thickets the following year . |
| 2 | The strict parent or the sarcastic schoolteacher may act more from a suppressed need to hurt than from his or her desire for discipline or wish to be thought amusing . |
| 3 | The three parties fought the elections for the Constitutional Convention as a coalition with a joint manifesto which-emphasised that Northern Ireland should remain indefinitely as an integral part of the United Kingdom and that power would not be shared with Republicans although that was not an objection to Catholics as such . |
| 4 | Bristol and Liverpool law societies concurred in this approach , whilst Leicestershire felt that the prohibition should relate exclusively to a personal interest on the part of a solicitor ; |
| 5 | Initially the king was unsympathetic to Hopton 's petition , claiming that at the material time he had not been acting as a justice owing to a bureaucratic muddle over his appointment , but by December 1290 he had agreed that the money Hopton had already paid towards his fine should count instead towards a fine he had made to secure the wardship of the lands of his late wife . |
| 6 | We should act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |
| 7 | The standard molar enthalpy of a reaction is written It is essential that should refer unambiguously to a specific equation or formula . |
| 8 | If the seller does agree to convey them , he must do so within a reasonable length of time , section 29(3) . |
| 9 | If you must use then as a temporary measure , run them round the room at skirting-board level and tape them in position . |
| 10 | 4.8 Ideally , no worker should work alone in an isolated office or building and arrangements should be made to ensure that , as far as possible , this does not happen . |
| 11 | Ideally , the hotel name should feature prominently on a large sign , either over the gateway opening or mounted above the wall each side of the entrance and angled to face incoming traffic . |
| 12 | Betula pendula ‘ Youngii ’ , with weeping branches , is a neatly compact form which should fit neatly into a confined space without becoming an embarrassment . |
| 13 | When r 1 and r 2 both increase , then ΔS M becomes smaller ; consequently attempts to mix two high molar mass polymer samples will receive little assistance from this function and must depend increasingly on a favourable ( negative ) heat of mixing embodied in the χ parameter . |
| 14 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 15 | We have some hard thinking to do and we must move forward with a positive and radical agenda . ’ |
| 16 | Similarly , in early vertebrate embryos , the cells that will form the vertebral column and the muscles are also on the outside and must move inwards to an appropriate location . |
| 17 | Exceptions to this rule should apply only to a limited number of sectors enumerated in the Treaty . ’ |
| 18 | All these groups are concerned that the EC should develop organically as a co-operative trading bloc and not as a bureaucratic United States of Europe . |
| 19 | The single market legislation envisaged by the White Paper is the specific expression and implementation of the fundamental principle enshrined in the EEC Treaty that goods , services , capital and people should circulate freely throughout a single economic Community . |
| 20 | Presidential elections turn on the personality of the candidate to a far greater extent ; those who seek the presidency must communicate effectively with a mass electorate at a personal level . |
| 21 | Not only must it have an overall structure which makes sense , but individual paragraphs and sentences must knit together in a coherent fashion that others can readily follow . |
| 22 | He was surprised to find , for example , that men who make their living out of reporting news and gossip should go away from a private lunch with him and the Princess and talk about it . |
| 23 | Though no match for Gaelstrom and Now Your Talkin , he was running on well into third at the end , and in receipt of 20lbs from Highland Spirit should go well at a big price . |
| 24 | From the words of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State , it is clear that he regards it as vital that King 's Cross should go ahead as an essential part of the entire project . |
| 25 | The outcome is expected to influence Scottish Homes in deciding whether Waverley or Eildon should go forward for a four-week postal ballot in June . |
| 26 | If a closed-loop stepping motor system is to position a load in the shortest possible time it must accelerate rapidly to a high speed , but the choice of switching angle is subject to a conflict between the demands of fast acceleration and high speed operation . |
| 27 | ( A cannonball fired upward from the earth will be slowed down by gravity and will eventually stop and fall back ; a photon , however , must continue upward at a constant speed . |
| 28 | In the more general case , in which there is no direct estimate of the expected variable , one can not merely see the actual value of a variable as a measure of the rational expectation of that variable , despite the fact that the two should differ only by a random error . |
| 29 | whether they were in favour of going on to a second cycle of review and reporting and if so whether reports should deal only with a particular aspect of the school ; |
| 30 | They may do so within a Compact institution , in which case it will be fairly easy to keep track of the Compact entitlement . |