Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some naturalists argued that all characters should be taken into account when determining relationships , but others claimed that some characters were more fundamental than others and should thus be given more weight . |
| 2 | If you are eating enough of these kinds of food to maintain appropriate weight ( or , if you are overweight , to lose weight slowly ) then you should automatically be getting enough vitamins and minerals . |
| 3 | It must also be remembered that university education at Oxford and Cambridge before 1945 ( when those who are now judges attended ) was also very largely a middle-class activity , within the first three groups of the table set out above . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) It must also be remembered that merger relief under CA 1985 , s131 , and merger accounting under SSAP 23 and CA 1985 , Sched 4A are only available in respect of a takeover involving a share for share exchange ( see para 23.1 below ) . |
| 5 | It must also be remembered that death usually took place in the home , not only because nineteenth century parents preferred it , but also because , before the development of antisepsis in practical nursing in the last quarter of the century , to send a patient to hospital was much more likely to prove fatal than keeping him at home . |
| 6 | Rather than concentrating almost exclusively on the training of direct service practitioners , they should probably be devoting more resources to training professional personnel who will function in indirect service roles , directing , co-ordinating and supervising the work of paraprofessional personnel and providing appropriate in-service training for them . |
| 7 | Similarly , one can find examples where in the African context , women are the primary producers in agriculture and this non-recognition of this fact has often led to the incongruous situation where strategies erm for change modernisation programmes have erm been directed to me and this erm has meant often the kind of bias in extension services , in training services , has meant that the target group , that is the women towards whom you should really be aiming those programmes , has not have not benefited , and this obviously has detrimental effects on your potential for increasing a casual output and for solving problems of increasing erm productivity and income for these women . |
| 8 | By 1996 , Britain should again be exporting more cars than we import — for the first time since 1974 . |
| 9 | An expert must therefore be given these powers by the expert clause ; otherwise his jurisdiction will be severely limited . |
| 10 | A child at school must certainly be taught those skills which will enable him plausibly to seek and subsequently to hold down a job . |
| 11 | Fresh seed should therefore be bought each year . |
| 12 | Adding another five years to any possible sentence seems pointless , especially as some of those involved may already be serving that length of time . |
| 13 | As you 'll probably be spending more time in the living area , this will be your starting point . |
| 14 | We 'll also be discussing these matters further with the milk boards . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Reckon we 'll both be needin' that tea extra sweet tonight , eh , boy ? ’ |
| 16 | Oliver might well be having some sort of breakdown , in which case he 'd need us both to be right on his side . |
| 17 | Some laws which one might imagine on wilder flights of fancy might well be refused this cooperation . |
| 18 | The downside , as far as concerns book publishing in general , is that the lower-grade extended-caption tie-ins hog the limelight and drive out ‘ real ’ books which might otherwise be given more shelf space , and which would almost certainly be of far greater merit in themselves . |
| 19 | We decided that although we were tired we might never be given another chance to get at it so easily . |
| 20 | This led to divorce from his wife , who could perhaps be permitted some schadenfreude at the fact that Van Den Hauwe 's relationship had , perforce , become platonic . |
| 21 | There were a few diplomatic handshakes as the players left the field at the end , but it seemed a relief that an extra week lay between this Test match and the next , and it could only be hoped that work would continue behind the scenes to impress upon these cricketers , especially the more excitable ones , that the game does not deserve to be abused . |
| 22 | Wooden shuttering would char in the process , but could still be used several times . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd hoped he 'd still be grazing that pasture there . ’ |
| 24 | Reaction time has been found to be extended in cases of brain damage ( Costa , 1962 ) and it may reasonably be thought that latency to respond is related to the degree of damage . |
| 25 | Fear of public criticism may well be intimidating some doctors , making them less inclined to consider the diagnosis . |
| 26 | These people have met new friends , gained in confidence and , most of all , self respect and would rather be doing some form of work rather than wasting away at home . |
| 27 | Assuming that the company concerned is owner-controlled , the intention would presumably be to distribute any cash in excess of the nominal share capital to the owner shareholders . |
| 28 | The wolf crawled along on a stomach , that would soon be digesting some meat |
| 29 | ‘ A Government with any heart and sense would already be pursuing that strategy . ’ |
| 30 | He would still be mending that barn door . |