Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story about the scourging of Jesus may relate to the comment in Isaiah : ‘ … by this scourging we are healed ’ ( Isaiah 53:5 ) . |
| 2 | The referent or antecedent of an anaphor may arise from the sentence in which the anaphor occurs or from an earlier sentence in the text . |
| 3 | On the disappearance of the archedictyon , or of an individual vein , the macrotrichia may persist on the wing-membrane in their original positions ; their presence there is regarded by Tillyard as evidence of descent from more densely veined ancestors . |
| 4 | Because of the obvious symmetry , we may concentrate on the singularity in region II . |
| 5 | Shore crabs may predominate in the catch in estuaries and harbours , and sometimes better results can be obtained after dark . |
| 6 | As for Louise and Miriam , they had decided they must stay in the Residency in order to lend their assistance at the hospital , where the dispensers and orderlies could no longer cope . |
| 7 | Such studies should focus on the workload in comparable practices — for example , practices in high and low deprivation areas with similar levels of commitment . |
| 8 | The government believes that the informal , voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision . |
| 9 | So any explanation of why it started must focus on the collapse in investment . |
| 10 | The developer or his land buyer should act as the catalyst in such situations . |
| 11 | ‘ That you should refer to the child in the neuter . |
| 12 | With Robert Jones and Aled Williams a dominating half-back force , Wales coach Alan Davies will need little prompting about the men he should choose for the Test in two weeks time . |
| 13 | But shooting should begin during the spring in New York . |
| 14 | To overcome this barrier , I suggest , one must look at the approach in action ; only then will it be possible to see what it has achieved , and to assess what it might achieve if taken on its own terms . |
| 15 | First we must look at the situation in Vietnam . |
| 16 | It is important to understand that the ratio decidendi of a particular case is not wholly to be found in the case itself ; rather one must look to the way in which later courts interpret the case . |
| 17 | One wonders why you even bother reading the NME — perhaps you should stick to The Sun in the future . |
| 18 | I must apologise for the delay in responding . |
| 19 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 20 | Unhappiness and feelings of unfulfilment , therefore , must stem from the way in which we move in this world . |
| 21 | But having spent all his career in a family business , Sir Adrian has inevitably given a lot of thought to the responsibility a company should have for the community in which it operates . |
| 22 | Fortunately Eliot declared himself unequivocally , in an essay , ‘ Reflections on Vers Libre : ’ … the ghost of some simple metre should lurk behind the arras in even the ‘ freest ’ verse ; to advance menacingly as we doze , and withdraw as we arouse' . |
| 23 | You must go through the way in which you are not . ’ |
| 24 | We must go in the shop in the Pinge to buy something for my bunny . |
| 25 | Thus the inception of a new focus for the study of chronology has been promoted by such stimulating developments and Bowen ( 1979 ) points out that the CLIMAP group have discovered significant evidence which supports the idea that the immediate future is one of adverse orbital geometry and general cooling and hence that ‘ the prediction of the future must rest on the past in the present ’ ( Bowen , 1979 , p. 181 ) . |
| 26 | It is perhaps not surprising that such an interpretation should come to the fore in the implementation of normalisation . |
| 27 | A complainant should establish with the Commission in advance whether it objects to disclosure of its complaint and the complainant should always be clear in advance as to any information which it wishes to remain confidential . |
| 28 | The heroine of the romance novel is presented at a moment of transition in her life , an isolated figure ; the romance narrative depicts young women at a point of defining themselves as adult women , a definition that must come from the heroine in the absence of any supportive network : |
| 29 | Those cases only decided that the successor must live with the tenant in the whole of the premises . |
| 30 | If the toss was fair and he misses it , he is out and must sit on the floor in the middle . |