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 | 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 ; |
| 4 | I hope there will yet be occasion to make use of them again in the same cause , even if we must wait now for a better opportunity . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | Betula pendula ‘ Youngii ’ , with weeping branches , is a neatly compact form which should fit neatly into a confined space without becoming an embarrassment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We have some hard thinking to do and we must move forward with a positive and radical agenda . ’ |
| 15 | Exceptions to this rule should apply only to a limited number of sectors enumerated in the Treaty . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ to pass ahead of the foremost part of another moving motor vehicle , being a vehicle proceeding in the same direction wholly or partly within that area ’ This phrase means that the offending vehicle or part of it must pass ahead of a slower moving motor vehicle travelling in the same direction . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The planning will need to take account of the fact that the groups should come together at a later stage . |
| 26 | ( 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ; |
| 29 | They may do so within a Compact institution , in which case it will be fairly easy to keep track of the Compact entitlement . |
| 30 | In southern England , they may do so within a single year . |