Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He also got on well with the justices of the Jews and may for a brief period have enjoyed some sort of official position in the Exchequer of the Jews .
2 If it fails , he may as a last resort fling his band of ‘ patriotic ’ assassins into general action .
3 However , now that it is necessary to identify the functions the judges are performing when they sit as visitors in cases which are concerned with the question whether people are fit and proper persons to become or remain barristers , we must for the first time examine their function in that context alone .
4 ‘ My uncles and must of the other Khans take such pains when they speak to me , and yet you go to no trouble at all .
5 The executor or administrator , whose duties in many ways resemble those of a trustee , must in the first instance discharge the funeral expenses , the cost ( including the payment of inheritance tax ) of obtaining probate of the will or ‘ letters of administration ’ , and the debts of the deceased .
6 Study of the examples will show that in order to simulate the behaviour of a system one must in the first instance understand it .
7 As a result of Section 89 of the Companies Act 1985 , if the Directors wish to allot the unissued shares for cash ( other than pursuant to an employee share scheme ) , they must in the first instance offer them to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings .
8 All agencies of mass culture , i.e. the press , the radio , the television and the cinema , stand in this dialectical relation to the individual and must in the last resort concern themselves with value judgements .
9 The energetic pursuit of these two policies should in the long run ensure a substantial improvement in the employment situation .
10 Miss Rene ignored Miss Belle 's remark and , turning again to Agnes , said , ‘ It should happen that Mrs Bretton-Fawcett had some bills outstanding and that she should at the same time require one or two hats for herself and an equal number for her daughter .
11 Are you arguing Mr Girt that the level of provision of employment land proposed by North Yorkshire County Council is excessive , bearing in mind your request that the County Council should at the same time cater for one hundred percent of past migration trends , including that coming from the Leeds Metropolitan Area ?
12 It recommends that it should be taken over by the academy because of its focus on basic research and that it should at the same time establish links with a university .
13 We have decided to hand them over ( Gen Keightley is in touch and on good terms with the Russian general on his right ) , but I suggested that the Russians should at the same time give us any British prisoners or wounded who may be in his area .
14 Whilst regarding as correct the shift of the centre of gravity to the production of the means of production , we must at the same time remember the danger involved in tying up too much state capital in major construction work , which can not be realised on the market for many years .
15 You must at the same time send us a detailed estimate of the costs involved .
16 Perhaps , too , the archaic words might for a brief minute live again :
17 I have on several afternoons gone some way towards the beginning of a new mythology , which might in a thousand years puzzle the Germans .
18 No doubt in the exercise of its discretion a court may take into account a number of factors , such as for example the conduct and wishes of individual investors , which might in a given case militate against the making of an order .
19 They could see that there were problems presented in the work of Davy or Faraday ; and if they were lucky they might in a later course see the problem solved , only as ever to raise more .
20 Perhaps it was only natural , only to be expected ; but with no one left to share these thoughts , the familiar presence gone , one might in the small hours come to wonder whether , being no longer needed , life was really worth living any more .
21 ‘ Horizontal ’ competition , the network system , might in an ideal world have meant companies vying to buy and sell the best programmes from each other .
22 This might on the one hand have been positive pressure for improvement ; it could equally have been a move to prevent closure .
23 A holiday travelogue set in some exotic location might on the other hand merit a slightly more expansive style to suit the circumstances .
24 The geography of Boiotia might to a shallow observer seem to suit her for naval hegemony .
25 Yet , recognition of that extension might at the same time open up the possibility that vulnerable people who do not desire death , despite their suffering , might be killed by others for reasons of their own : this would subvert the right to self-determination , and is an argument against a mercy-killing defence or offence .
26 Further , he might by the same instrument grant a present estate , say for life , to A , followed by an estate for life or in tail to B , and , if he wished , as many further particular estates ( for life or in tail ) to other persons successively as he pleased , ending up , if he thought fit , with an estate in fee simple to some person named .
27 Mr Li could with a little luck look forward to another 20 years of political life .
28 One can indeed use could in a positive sentence evoking a past capacity which was never even exercised : ( 11 ) Ten years ago , the super-powers could already destroy the world 1000 times over .
29 Both men started to dress , taking it in turns to wash as best they could in the small sink perched on the cell wall .
30 The paradox is that this sudden , violent , essentially mindless process ( the could in the last line underlines the ‘ demoniac compulsion to which the divine bird himself is subject ’ ) is the cause of events of enormous , tragic magnitude for the human race : the birth of Helen and the Trojan war .
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