Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence , then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 3 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 4 | Each industry must have applied to it the test of national service . |
| 5 | Wittgenstein explicitly rejects what Locke and Brentano unquestioningly accept , namely that there is a perfectly proper epistemological question , ‘ How is it that a person can say what he himself believes , expects , hopes , and so on ? ’ to which the answer is that he must have observed in himself a mental operation , process , state , or whatever you like to call it , of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on . |
| 6 | Once again , it was fear of Charles and his military might that converted the Saxons , not love of Christ ( who must have seemed to them a very hard , vengeful god indeed ) . |
| 7 | I must have poured out my troubles at such length , and he must have put to me a sufficient number of searching questions , that , before we had drawn breath , the afternoon was already far advanced . |
| 8 | The children must have impressed upon them the need for personal cooperation within the classroom as essential to the variety of learning situations with which they will be faced . |
| 9 | After a drink she might enjoy slamming to him the suggestion that Steve and Maria Luisa might get back together again . |
| 10 | And erm I think generally people do n't realize how quite unique that is. erm one thing , of course , which is also not erm very readily understood , is the involvement of the legal person , the Clerk to the Justices , in the system , so that with the three Justices you 'll having sitting you 'll have sitting below them the legally qualified Clerk , and I suppose it 's this particular feature of the system which is difficult for people abroad to comprehend _ how a legally qualified person can be sitting there without dominating the proceedings . |
| 11 | I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought . |
| 12 | We work in the Health arena , you yourself have had considerable experience , and you referred to the changing roles between public and private agencies , and you mentioned trusts and so on in the health arena , I just wondered whether you 'd like to explore with us a little , your own personal thinking about the nature of these changing roles , and perhaps a little bit of crystal ball gazing ahead , |
| 13 | But first I 'd like to go over what the Bucharest MI6 man said to you . |
| 14 | She had seldom lied to her friend , but she knew that she could have described to her a proletarian custom whereby retired coalmen ate live eel-worms and not have been disbelieved . |
| 15 | She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . |
| 16 | In that context I think it would be helpful to us erm if we could have submitted to us a version of the table originally submitted by the H B F relating to commitments . |
| 17 | So we 'd have to go through it the next day anyway . |
| 18 | He 'd have to care for her a lot more than he does to do that . ’ |
| 19 | And he 'd have to look at it every day . |
| 20 | However , because of the limitations in the design of the study it was not clear to what extent the link between subjective risk and recall was caused by less interesting factors such as the type of memory test used , the fact that risk ratings were previously given by the drivers , and the expectations subjects may have had of what the study was about . |
| 21 | We may have had from him an attempt at Opposition fury , but , on occasion , he experienced pretty heavy weather in trying to make distinctions between his party and the Government on an issue on which , in essence , they agree . |
| 22 | I knew that Syl 's mother , like my own , would consider talking to yourself the first sign of madness . |
| 23 | This would need to retain within it the unique legal function of Convocation which would be restricted to those at present eligible to exercise it , that is to graduates and staff alone . |
| 24 | Ladies and Gentlemen , I would like to present to you the one , the only Anthony . |
| 25 | And once her nephew-in-law sought her out to ask whether she would like to discuss with him the forthcoming Derby and which horse was likely to win the race . |
| 26 | I would like to share with you a burden for prayer as I feel it is only right that all Christians should know about anything that would deny us total freedom . |
| 27 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
| 28 | I would have gone for something a little snappier : ‘ A mad cow with a handbag , ’ comes to mind as a first attempt . |
| 29 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 30 | This last appointment would have procured for him a secure income and a safe environment for life , had he remained in it . |