Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordinary-quality facing bricks will be ideal for most outdoor walling , but you may want to consider using special-quality bricks in particularly exposed areas . |
| 2 | In his first letter from there he makes a significant little admission to Theo , and encloses a sketch : ‘ I should like to begin making hasty sketches of some of the many things I meet … but as it would probably keep me from my real work it is better not to start . ’ |
| 3 | Both Charles Booth and Helen Bosanquet felt that the majority of working class wives were too ill-trained to command a decent wage outside the home and that they should stop struggling to do two jobs , thereby also reducing the amount of un-and under-employment among men . |
| 4 | Sir Anthony Meyer : I my right Hon. Friend aware that the very ambitious urban aid programme that was announced today will be warmly welcomed and that there will be special pleasure that Clwyd has not suffered at the hands of south Wales , although we should have liked to see more projects ? |
| 5 | Since you needs must drag me here , I should have liked to see this Hotspur men talk so much about . ’ |
| 6 | Which made it the more regrettable that , in an age when abortion is pressed on one as if it were a free sample , she should have contrived to have four children in six years — unwanted , dubiously parented , ill cared for . |
| 7 | The fact that Chant , knowing he was going to be murdered ( that much was cogent ) , should have chosen to set these nonsenses down as vital information was proof of significant derangement . |
| 8 | That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental . |
| 9 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 10 | The presentation of memories as they were told brings this book alive , but the Civic Society might have been better served by their publisher who should have avoided duplicating four paragraphs in two chapters attributed to different contributors . |
| 11 | Your spirit and mine must have met to comfort each other ! |
| 12 | Let us bear in mind how much they must have suffered to achieve such beauty . |
| 13 | Alongside the new-fangled blast furnace the traditional bloom process must have continued to occupy many people for short periods every year . |
| 14 | Judging from all the chatter , everyone in UCD must have got to know each other pretty quickly , Benny thought as she went up the steps the following morning . |
| 15 | Must mention Does need some attention . |
| 16 | With the war now raging in the Middle East we might feel tempted to question such certainty . |
| 17 | We suspect that this will be of great concern to many sports clubs and organisations throughout the United Kingdom and you might wish to consider taking appropriate action to make your views known on this matter . |
| 18 | At the moment it is only available commercially , so until the happy day when we can all buy it , I suppose I 'll have to continue meeting resident weevils in my bathroom . |
| 19 | Well I 'll have to keep doing these pools . |
| 20 | In the UK , Sun Microsystems ' drive to flush out some of the value-added resellers which it says do n't actually offer any value-add ( UX No 399 ) , will take the form of a new contract which they 'll have to sign to become authorised VARs . |
| 21 | LORD Spencer 's death might have served to remind this country of the dread winter of 1978/1979 when rubbish was uncollected in the streets , the fire brigades were on strike , hospitals were picketed by auxiliary workers who demanded to approve all surgical operations , housewives fought each other over a cauliflower leaf and the dead lay unburied in every churchyard . |
| 22 | It would have taken something of a miracle to attract the capital investment which might have begun to change this state of affairs . |
| 23 | Another move might have involved challenging some assumption in the protective belt such as those concerning refraction in the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 24 | These machines are so rare that one like Ingrid 's , new , could cost £80,000 , and she might have had to wait four years for delivery . |
| 25 | Had they not had such a resource at their disposal some might have had to forego particular orders , others might have been obliged to withdraw entirely from certain markets , whilst still others would have been less willing to innovate with new products offering chances of survival or expansion . |
| 26 | Or suppose that A has broken his contract to sell land to B ; here , again , B might have had to bring one action in a Common Law Court for damages , and another in the Chancery to compel specific performance . |
| 27 | Under the old system B might have had to bring two actions against A : in the Common Law Courts to get damages , in the Chancery to get an injunction to forbid the continuance of the building . |
| 28 | Both these cat families were in zoos , where the proximity of the male was forced on the female and where , if anywhere , one might have expected to see tom-cat aggression towards the young . |
| 29 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 30 | Cormac said , ‘ They 'll arrive having marched thirty miles . ’ |