Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are avoiding fried food , it follows that you should be seeking out the best methods of cooking noted on the menu . |
| 2 | No one was likely to recommend that a hopeless old chronic like him should be put on the new drugs at this stage , because they were still in short supply and there were many more interesting patients on whom to experiment . |
| 3 | That homework should last approximately half an hour or whatever it consists of , erm reading , written work , finishing off drawing research whatever that homework should be handed in the next day , form teachers to remind classes of this and to co-ordinate delivery of the books , papers etcetera to the member of teaching staff and that the non production of homework is to be the concern of the member of of teaching staff and not the form teacher , although regular non producers will be the concern of us all . |
| 4 | The SPD pointed out that one-third of asylum-seekers came from Turkey and that strong pressure should be brought on the Turkish government to prevent this . |
| 5 | If the building is constructed with glazed curtain walling , care must be taken over the precise words used . |
| 6 | He 'll be breaking up the twentieth and how long you on holiday , fortnight ? |
| 7 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 8 | I reckon those people 'll be going up the wrong way . |
| 9 | I suppose me Dan and Honey 'll be going back the cheap way . |
| 10 | We 'll be making up the lost hours tonight and on Monday . |
| 11 | I think in the course of time I 'll find a middle If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the feminist revolution . |
| 12 | Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 13 | Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 14 | It 's obviously never occurred to her she could be barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 15 | They asked the individual chief officers to prepare reports to the committees on action that could be taken on the detailed recommendations of Friends of the Earth . |
| 16 | Still more damning evidence could be brought about the long-term effect of punches to the head . |
| 17 | Then a green light would stab through the gloom and he 'd be roaring down the narrow concrete strip , faster and faster , holding Sugar back until it seemed the boundary fence was hurtling to meet them . |
| 18 | you know , they 'd be put on the other register . |
| 19 | Waco : CULT leader David Koresh may be drawing out the 34-day stand-off with federal agents so it ends on a religious holiday and fulfils his prophecies , the FBI said . |
| 20 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
| 21 | If your parcel is lost or damaged , compensation may be paid up the specified limit according to the fee paid . |
| 22 | The BSDI contingents hopeful that Novell Inc will quash the suit once it takes USL over may be barking up the wrong tree . |
| 23 | Today , the Home Secretary announced that Thames Valley and West Mercia police would be trying out the extendable baton . |
| 24 | However , I received the impression that the society was more interested in a scheme for a new RUC complaints procedure and that it was not anticipated that it would be taking up the Black affair in a major way . |
| 25 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
| 26 | ‘ The fascinating thing ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ would be to find out the real limit of this power of yours . |
| 27 | Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 28 | Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 29 | Tonight , over in the nurses ' home on Huntley Street , a bunch of junior doctors would be putting on the usual end-of-year revue . |
| 30 | Sparc International , which is currently at version 8 of the Sparc interface definition , said the 64-bit stuff in version 9 will be just ‘ the tip of the iceberg , ’ and that it would be putting out the new specifications ‘ relatively soon : ’ it still has to go and dig up the stuff from down at Sun Labs . |