Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are successful in identifying these the opportunities may exist to prevent a situation that is desperately difficult to cure . |
| 2 | You may want to join a club and work out three times a week or you may simply decide to walk to work instead of going by car or 'bus . |
| 3 | In the same way a horse may want to touch a person that it likes . |
| 4 | If you are ill you may want to write a letter than can be read and re-read in the future . |
| 5 | I was sad and angry that he should want to place a bolt and go so radically against the grain ; sympathetic with Dave 's strong conviction ; peeved that my own route — Centrefold — had been usurped . |
| 6 | If this kind of picture were to apply to the London Caribbean community , we should expect to find a pattern where Creole was used between members of the first generation and by them to their children . |
| 7 | At this point , I should like to clarify a question or two which the reader may find puzzling , such as anti-semitism . |
| 8 | ‘ I should like to buy a sponge before they all go . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Accepting — if I am to consent , I should like to make a condition or two — ‘ |
| 10 | It is unfortunate that there are people who are out of work , but we should try to keep a balance and remember that most people who want work are in work . |
| 11 | Pruning in the second and subsequent years should try to begin a routine or system — and only your cultivation and experience will determine this — of removing wood that has flowered in proportion to the amount and vigour of new wood that the individual plant puts up . |
| 12 | Supplier companies wishing to sell their products to industrial markets must try to establish a pattern or " mix " of inter-related activities . |
| 13 | Tourists should have to sign a declaration that they are healthy and will leave Britain if a chronic disease is diagnosed and if they are treated their passports should be kept until their fees are paid . |
| 14 | You must learn to lose a Major before you can win one . ’ |
| 15 | Counting objects placed anyhow or counting , for example , beads on a ring , or cakes in a patty-tin , the child must learn to establish a starting and ending point of his own . |
| 16 | Some candidates may choose to take a course and gather evidence of competence in parallel . |
| 17 | The court may decline to file a petition if not satisfied that the creditor has discharged the obligation imposed on him by 6.3(2) . |
| 18 | A fourth idea implicit in the concept of non-justiciability is that of expertise : a court might decline to review a decision or action if it felt it lacked the skill , expertise or experience to judge the issues raised by the dispute . |
| 19 | A man might hope to support a wife and fairly large family on a pound a week ; some managed on ten shillings ( 50 p ) a week . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll have to see a specialist when I get back to Barnsley but the eyes feel much better today , ’ said Taggart . |
| 21 | ‘ I think you 'll have to wait a while before you get another chance to be captain . ’ |
| 22 | Look , you 'll have to wait a minute while I get some gloves . |
| 23 | She 'll have to get a job or something . |
| 24 | Er in my opinion at this particular time we must bear in mind the financial constraints that we work under and er would the board agree with me that erm survival comes first yes but it 's obvious that the programme that we 've er had put forward is a good compromise between preferred in the arts , maintaining the theatre as a viable proposition and er entertaining the people of this particular part of the world because as I understand it this theatre was not just the artist also an entertainment centre and it 's in this area that er it 's quite obvious when you look into the figures on this area the popular area that the majority income comes so you 'll have to make a compromise and I will congratulate the board on what I think is pretty reasonable compromise so it 's quite obvious in the programme . |
| 25 | But today they 'll have to make a choice because I 'm on my own . |
| 26 | He 'll have to pay a fine before he can pick up for it , this is Joanne , I do n't but he must he must er be up to something . |
| 27 | So he might get his wall built but he might have to wait a year before he starts it . |
| 28 | If the makeup of the whole of a person 's being was represented by a frozen block of egg yolks and whites ( colour coded — dyed different colours ) then any other person wishing to investigate and make conscious or broadcast his feelings upon this being might have to take a sample or sliver through the block or might collect a number of such slivers , some from other people 's different angle scanning of that being , then I would suggest that the picture of flat slivers built up would in no way give the many complex proportions of shapes originally in the block . |
| 29 | Of course you might have to share a slice or two ! |
| 30 | As in war , if you were captured you lost your horse and armour to the victorious knight and you might have to pay a ransom as well . |