Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , many an infant may experience a shrieking mother rushing into the nursery and yelling at the cat to leave the room . |
| 2 | As much as a party , the voter may want a given person to speak for him . |
| 3 | Where a party can not protect his position by a payment into court , he may make the other party a written offer filing a copy with the court , but not to be brought to the attention of the court until costs fall to be decided ( Ord 12 , r 10 ) and similarly , where contribution arises a party may make a written offer to contribute ( Ord 12 , r 7 ) . |
| 4 | As a result of the last Communist Party congress , younger functionaries are getting hold of the levers of power and recent developments may signal a genuine wish to adopt a less hard-line political course . |
| 5 | Lawns may need a selective weedkiller to get rid of dandelions and other weeds yet leave your grass unharmed , while the systematic weedkiller , Tumbleweed , will deal with bindweed and ground elder . |
| 6 | Consequently , to prepare for integration , the existing structure may need a thorough overhaul achieved by a comprehensive programme of planned staff and curriculum development . |
| 7 | You may need a special connector to join to an old mains stopcock ( see page 29 ) : fit a drainvalve immediately above this . |
| 8 | This stopcock may need a special key to turn it on and off . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the court orders an account to be taken and the account consists in part of costs , the court may direct a taxing officer to tax those costs and the taxing officer shall after taxation of the bill of costs return it , together with his report on it , to the court . |
| 10 | She/he may direct a chief officer to provide mutual aid to another force and , in the event of any disagreement , determine the relative allocation of costs between an aided and aiding authority . |
| 11 | If the state bar decides against a complete ban , Miss Roybal-Allard may introduce a new bill requiring it to have one . |
| 12 | I think we should make a serious effort to get some progress on this thing . ’ |
| 13 | FAMILIES searching for extra space should make a quick exit left to Barry Evans & Co . |
| 14 | The issue here is whether provocation should remain a qualified defence to murder , and , if so , how far it should extend . |
| 15 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
| 16 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
| 17 | But sometimes there are no such identifiers and the student must make a personal judgement depending on the document being analysed . |
| 18 | to go to the other extreme and over-indulge you must make a concerted effort to curb this . |
| 19 | In the absence of such continuous assessment , officially applied , you must make a serious attempt to produce the short-term aims within your own thinking . |
| 20 | Whatever the job is , however humble or high-powered , you must make a positive effort to listen to the interviewer and answer the questions he or she actually puts to you . |
| 21 | " We must make a determined effort to win the rank and file of the ILP. " he wrote , " at the same time to avoid creating the impression that there are no fundamental differences between our Party and the ILP " . |
| 22 | In the procedures required to fulfil the special educational needs of visually handicapped pupils , as with any pupils with special needs , the local education authority must make a formal assessment culminating in a statement of the child 's individual special needs . |
| 23 | As we listen to these phrases that rolled so easily off the tongue , and which have also rolled on down through history to our own time , we must make a special effort to remember very carefully just who the men were who engineered the Garotter 's Act — what kind of men they were ; what kind of times they lived in ; and what forces helped to shape their upright moral certitude . |
| 24 | As reported in the local press on July 18 , Fajgembaum had suggested ( i ) that if the government wished to obtain a $2,000 million extended IMF loan it should eliminate a constitutional law guaranteeing individual states a share of federal tax income ; and ( ii ) that inflation could only be sharply reduced if the federal deficit were reduced . |
| 25 | They should eat a balanced diet supplemented with multivitamin tablets , avoid alcohol and get plenty of sleep . |
| 26 | By March 1988 there were about 160 subscribers in total and 1988/9 should show a self-supporting enterprise making a considerable contribution to CAB resources through its profits . |
| 27 | The leader must choose a suitable spread to get a borrower 's loan business and yet at the same time convince participating banks that it is a realistic return relative to the loan risk(s) involved . |
| 28 | Two measures should do a good deal to grease the wheels of the City 's securities business . |
| 29 | The social worker should do a bio-psychosocial assessment taking a careful look at any disruption in the elderly person 's capacity to function and to cope , particularly if there has been a health cause to precipitate a referral . |
| 30 | Mr Taylor must ensure a sceptical public understand that it is to obtain these securities for their less fortunate brethren that the highly-paid Premier League players have been asked to express a willingness to strike . |