Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly for the bride ; optional for the groom ( trad. males may prefer to keep to the old proprietorial ways ) . |
| 2 | During this briefing Mr Clayton said nothing about what medical evidence may exist relating to the nine children subject to Place of Safety warrants . |
| 3 | While some may come to admire the Guercino or the girandoles , many people , including children , may enjoy looking at the old or not-so-old toys , or even a collection of fifty years of milk bottles from the local dairy . |
| 4 | Supporters of the rational model may seek to move to the desired situation in one strategic move . |
| 5 | In drug addiction and in the eating disorders the processes may be even slower because the drugs or the distorted eating pattern may cause more confusion and damage to thought processes and also because the sufferers may be young and may need to live through the emotional pain of adolescence that is necessary for maturity and which they earlier avoided by recourse to mood-altering chemicals , substances or behaviour . |
| 6 | And why it was that such a man should want to fight against the Seven . |
| 7 | The leader is in good health and , in Maginnis 's opinion , should stay to see through the current phase — at least until the Government agrees to a select committee for Northern Ireland , whether or not there is any devolution . |
| 8 | We must seek to discover through the experimental work of small teams which approaches have the best chances of success , before committing the battalions . |
| 9 | This review process needs to be carried out on a fairly regular basis , perhaps every six months , and it should include looking at the current state of the market to see if there are any new developments that can be applied . |
| 10 | Well people are not bound to lose , because some people do finish up ahead , but most people should expect to lose for the simple reason that bookies have got to make a living somehow , and therefore the odds that they offer to entice people to go in are such as to expect the bookie to make a profit , but that does n't mean to say that I am against the idea of people going in for gambling . |
| 11 | Such an attitude is , of course , typical of the ‘ oral personality ’ , as classically defined in the annals of psychoanalysis , and I think it is no coincidence that anorexics , who are almost invariably subject to heavily competitive pressures , should choose eating as the focal point for expressing the resulting conflicts . |
| 12 | At a running start you should plan to start at the downwind end . |
| 13 | This will be sufficient to investigate the energy range in which the electromagnetic forces should become unified with the weak forces according to the Salam-Weinberg theory , but not the enormously high energy at which the weak and electromagnetic interactions would be predicted to become unified with the strong interactions . |
| 14 | The councillor should become acquainted with the principal officers from whom he can gain a considerable amount of information and help . |
| 15 | What I should like to underline in the present context is the connection between the recitals in the texts and the teleological method of interpretation . |
| 16 | With the Institute as a theme I should like to refer to the Presidential Address of in London in 1927 who said , and I quote : |
| 17 | You should begin exercising at the correct pace . |
| 18 | Anyone working seriously on the social and economic history of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries must become acquainted with the major findings of this demographic research . |
| 19 | At no time had there been any hint that France should try to benefit from the British embarrassment during this critical period , though the press published sharp attacks on the British policy of reprisals after the Mutiny was over . |
| 20 | Lennox should have scored in the 75th minute when McLaughlin 's long-range strike was pushed onto the post by O'Shea , but with an open goal in front of him , Lennox sliced his shot into the side netting . |
| 21 | Les Ferdinand should have scored in the 16th minute when he escaped Shaun Teale and side-stepped goalkeeper Nigel Spink but the Rangers striker allowed Steve Staunton to get back and make two retrieving tackles in front of a gaping net . |
| 22 | So , in theory , all should have kept in the same condition as when first stored . |
| 23 | I should have referred to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , West ( Mr. Douglas ) , who comes from Govan . |
| 24 | It follows that , apart from the question of the impact of Community law , such is the discretion which the courts should have exercised in the present case . |
| 25 | I said , if you 'd have said what you should have said at the bloody tribunal . |
| 26 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
| 27 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
| 28 | I should have gone to the French police at the time , but I did n't , and now the evidence has gone . |
| 29 | I said well I said that was the twenty first of it should have gone on the eleventh see but it did n't it go twenty first . |
| 30 | Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed . |