Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Freudian realistic view it seems to me , could n't allow you to draw either conclusion , you could n't , neither conclude , that things were better in the past and therefore we ou ought to go back to the golden age , nor , could you conclude that things will ever be any better in the future .
2 The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all .
3 Let's jump in at the deep end — literally .
4 Well let's catch up with the latest from the Manor ground , I think Nick Harris is back in the press box now .
5 It is for these reasons that Woolwich is not enabled or required to seek its remedy through the statutory framework , but must fall back on the common law .
6 With patterned fabric , the design must line up across the whole width of the curtain .
7 The full results of this strategy should show through in the 1989 profit figures .
8 The pattern is very much first half er , erm , loss or small profit , second half all the profit and in fact you should watch out for the bigger , the bigger Addison Wesley gets , the more the loss in the second half will be because we 're investing for that sale
9 According to Mr S Raisbeck of Selby Crescent ( assistant manager at the replacement Regal Cinema 1948–51 ) the whole of the north wall of the Regal is the original wall of The Theatre Royal and so must date back to the 1880s .
10 Ideally , I suppose , we should look around for the thickest available development of a particular unit if we are to find anything approaching continuous sedimentation .
11 The hon. Gentleman should look back at the Labour party 's record in government before he starts to criticise ours .
12 You must keep up with the full range of your subjects — but where do you begin ?
13 However , the recommendation that some regional colleges and colleges of education should become universities was not implemented , nor was the proposal that the colleges of education should move out of the public sector to become closely associated with the universities .
14 We must face up to the harsh fact that the present social and economic pattern of farming in the EEC can no longer be maintained .
15 After all , I do n't see why Jennifer should miss out on the one thing she 's actually looking forward to just because of him . ’
16 Must cut down on the bloody fags , ’ he told himself .
17 The melodic line must stand out with the greatest power and clarity in our arrangement , and obviously calls for a great sweep of strings .
18 ‘ John Birt should pay back to the Inland Revenue all the tax avoided in his period as deputy director general . ’
19 Webb 's move back to his old club should go through within the next 48 hours .
20 If , however , the dance told the bees where to go , they should go off to the wrong place ( depending on where Gould had put the light bulb ) .
21 Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home .
22 If Papandreou wishes to continue her righteous quest , she should go back into the smoke-filled rooms of the Bâtiment Berlaymont and re-package her proposals rationally .
23 His conclusion , probably acceptable to most parliamentarians , is that Ukraine should ratify START 1 now , but should hold on to the 46 missiles which that treaty does not cover ( though the Lisbon protocol does ) , and delay accession to the NPT .
24 ‘ Perhaps we should pass on to the home-made cakes , ’ said Mervyn .
25 The search for the answer must go back to the late 1960s .
26 In order to do so we must go back to the very beginning of society , explain the original trauma and then consider what consequences it has had for modern times ; for , as we shall see in a later chapter , an inability to accept the truth about ourselves and our societies is probably the most dangerous threat to the successful solution of our present cultural crisis and is certainly the chief obstacle to progress in the sciences of man .
27 Yet we must hold on to the basic idea that science discovers the truth of how the world works .
28 Erm i in , in in theory if you , if , if you balance quantity and quality everybody should end up with the same .
29 Once we have incorporated the Maastricht treaty into our law — presumably , as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said , in the first Session of the new Parliament — we must press on in the second half of 1992 , when we have the presidency of the Community , to set out more clearly our vision of a common European future .
30 But a spokesman for the firm which organised the poster campaign said it should come down within the next five days .
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