Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose is not to anticipate what claims B will make in his application to the Commission , which may range far beyond the concerns of the present article . |
| 2 | Guidelines may relate generically to a function ( e.g. recreational reading , adult relate generically to a function ( e.g. recreational reading , adult language books ) or to more specific categories of books within the function ( e.g. within recreational reading , to romances or popular biographies ) . |
| 3 | ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’ |
| 4 | Given the time it takes for non-experts to put up a house , the interest charges on your loan may eat considerably into the discount you capture by using your own labour , says Tuffin . |
| 5 | Either may arise only after the performance or occurrence of some particular acts . |
| 6 | ‘ Let's stay here for a while . ’ |
| 7 | To give an example , incest may exist simply as a prohibition at the level of the formal system but at the practical level , breaches of the prohibition are explained , joked about or criticized . |
| 8 | These elements ( the equivalent of nerve cells ) may be tangible silicon chips or they may exist only in the cyberspace of a working computer program . |
| 9 | The major problem is that pupils may concentrate solely on the game aspect and also lose interest quickly . |
| 10 | ( 8 ) If any party to an appeal to the sheriff under any provision of this Act ( other than Part VII ) is dissatisfied in point of law with a decision of the sheriff , he may appeal therefrom to the Court of Session within 28 days from the date of that decision . |
| 11 | It is thus tempting to suggest that the same X-box binding complex may act both as an activator and as a repressor . |
| 12 | In the extreme , of course , local people may object strongly to a project ( eg on environmental grounds ) , and force a design change or even the abandonment of the project , so that public attitudes may become an important issue . |
| 13 | My contact at the Yard may know more by the end of the day . |
| 14 | ‘ I think I should earn more as the WBC title is recognised as a better class than the WBO but I might come to a 50-50 split . ’ |
| 15 | To be perfectly honest Don I think you , you should retain the television , but you should restrict too with the regard to your use of it |
| 16 | People must think hard about the job they 're doing ; how they can make it safer . |
| 17 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 18 | A file should exist online for the module but can not be found . |
| 19 | The factors which come within the first category are those which must exist independently of the substance to be decided . |
| 20 | What was made clear was the TUC 's opinion that the control of the dispute must remain firmly in the hands of the APEX executive . |
| 21 | She must remain discreetly in the background — in the wings as it were — being ever attentive to Anne 's requirements and reputation , and acting with prudence and discretion whensoever the need arose . |
| 22 | The Labour leader described the Home Secretary 's comments as ‘ peculiar ’ and insisted that race should remain firmly in the background as a potential issue in the last few days of the campaign . |
| 23 | By the time , in 1909 , the Majority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress recommended that the relief of poverty should remain primarily in the hands of voluntary organizations , such organizations were already beginning to decline from their late-nineteenth-century peak . |
| 24 | As much as 85% of the materials should be on open access , and stock relegated to store should remain there for a trial period of five years before being returned to the main library , or transferred to a permanent back-up collection such as the British Library . |
| 25 | As a basic point , you should enquire whether the scheme is contracted in or out of SERPS and whether the intention is that it should remain so in the future . |
| 26 | Think again — T J Rodgers , president and chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor Corp told a Congressional committee on Wednesday last week that there is no monolithic support for Clinton 's budget proposals — the government should not try to build information networks , but ‘ untangle the morass of bureaucracy and regulations ’ that prevent existing fibre optic networks from reaching homes , he said ; he called for deeper cuts in the budget deficit and the end of ‘ wasteful and unnecessary ’ government programmes ; ‘ Washington should stay away from the intricacies of high-tech competition … it should focus instead on the infrastructure of competition , ’ he said ; he also presented written comments criticising the Clinton plan from officials or directors of Amdahl Corp , Cisco Systems Inc , Conner Peripherals Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 27 | ‘ I should stay there for a while , ’ said Elise , when she brought in a breakfast tray . |
| 28 | ‘ I must stay here for a while , ’ Edward went on . |
| 29 | I am minding the shop so we must stay downstairs for a while . ’ |
| 30 | This does not mean , however , that Elizabeth has no freedom of action at all ; it is simply that her actions must stay well within the bounds that society has placed on her . |