Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ten millennia of history will have been sacrificed to a crop of little taste and to gardeners who must keep up with the Joneses . |
| 32 | One layman summed up the feeling with the remark , ‘ If there were stolen goods anywhere on the premises , the Church must keep out of the matter . |
| 33 | I must work round to the subject gradually . |
| 34 | A composer is haunted by certain themes , subjects or moods , and he must look around for the stories or dramatic vehicles he needs to bring these themes to life as musical theatre . |
| 35 | All the same he felt that he must look in at the hall before going to his hotel . |
| 36 | To define Rottweiler character , we must look back to the breed 's history . |
| 37 | If this is what we hear inside with the canopies sealed , God knows how it must sound out on the tarmac ! |
| 38 | There is nothing more important than that we should stick up for the system that we have inherited down the ages , and that still has so much to offer the people of our country . " |
| 39 | But things have come to a pretty pass when obesity is confused with the wobbly bits the good Lord designed for girls — the bits that should stick out at the front and back of a strapless ballgown . |
| 40 | ‘ Then you must sleep out in the corridor . ’ |
| 41 | Energy' Cinderella should step out of the grate |
| 42 | He should face up to the need to release those much-needed funds for Scotland . |
| 43 | The invaders assembled at Stornoway were now divided by a bitter quarrel over whether or not they should move on to the mainland , only ended when one of the Earl Marischal 's supposed subordinates , William Murray , Marquis of Tullibardine , suddenly produced a commission granted to him two years before by James which appointed him Commander-in-Chief of all his forces in Scotland . |
| 44 | When approaching white water you should not have too much speed , sheeting out might be necessary , and the weight should move on to the back foot to encourage the nose to lift over the foam . |
| 45 | And for this reason I should move up to the company 's Gold Card program . |
| 46 | They must face up to the limitations of the Western model — though the baby of Western expertise should not be thrown out with the bathwater of its failings . |
| 47 | Harris accuses Cole of ‘ stepping away from a system that must face up to the hypocrisy behind pretending to give a helping hand ’ and ignoring the way this system ‘ ( ab ) uses the South … and , in the words of Eduardo Galeano , ‘ spreads the haemorrage to cure the anaemia' ’ . |
| 48 | ‘ Those who argue that maybe we should just once more try to delay it must face up to the responsibility that they may , by their good intentions , create much more suffering than anything we have seen so far . |
| 49 | The situation is defined as one where ‘ you ca n't tell a teacher what you 're going to do , ’ the child who resists must face up to the consequence that ‘ you 've got to accept that you 're going to get into more and more trouble . ’ |
| 50 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 51 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 52 | Either they must draw back from the spotlight and forfeit their privileges or pick their partners based on purely practical criteria . |
| 53 | It considered that if the Community 's system of quotas in its present form allowed member states to introduce certain requirements whose compatibility with Community law could only be justified by the necessity to attain the objectives of that system , then such requirements could only be incorporated into the quota licences or other quota management measures which the United Kingdom must lay down for the management of its quotas under article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 , and not be imposed as conditions for the registration of vessels . |
| 54 | An imaginative pragmatist judge might be tempted , for example , to divorce the question of what rule he should lay down for the future from the question of how he should decide the case before him . |
| 55 | The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ . |
| 56 | Using other kinds of evidence , we must move out to the localities , and the counties . |
| 57 | ‘ The international community must take over from the states that fail to fulfil their obligations , ’ he said . |
| 58 | The new regulatory body for the direct sales channel should cut down on the risks involved in buying a computer direct |
| 59 | The government 's resignation was accepted by the GNA on Nov. 30 , after agreement was reached that an interim coalition government should take over pending the holding of fresh elections , probably in March 1991 . |
| 60 | But the hard work now should pay off in the spring with a fine show of bluebells . |