Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By adding the pluses and minuses , it soon becomes apparent which of the remaining six places we ought to go to visit for a final decision .
2 In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team .
3 You may have a lump sum to invest or you may want to save on a regular basis .
4 Out of this material will emerge some of the items you may want to discuss with a spiritual director .
5 Women with severe emotional problems may need counselling on a long-term basis .
6 Decisions are then needed on how to train , which will include whether or which parts should be on-line or off-line , whether the operator is required to function in a mainly programmed ( i.e. rule-following ) mode and how far he may need to function in a conceptual ( i.e. actions based on understanding ) mode .
7 as these will ‘ drown ’ if cut below water level , so sufficient length should remain to allow for a fluctuating water level .
8 Anderson 's history must work according to a rational principle , the dialectic , and be moving towards an end which will reveal and enact its meaning .
9 Given these competing interests , the best he could propose was that the two governments should try to come to a prior understanding concerning each other 's needs and thereby avoid the formal commitments which the US Joint Chiefs feared might paralyse American forces at the start of hostilities .
10 The failure of Britain 's membership of the European Monetary System should have led to a complete rethink of the Maastricht agreement to move to a single currency .
11 If at some stage we entered into a single currency , we should have to deal with a different matter .
12 That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this .
13 It was fitting , in the 50th anniversary year of the Battle of Britain , that the Association should have engaged in a full range of activities aimed at meeting its responsibilities towards former members of the Royal Air Force , both men and women .
14 It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy , Syl , now that he was getting older and had less energy , should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me .
15 It may seem a depressing conclusion to Anselm 's struggle for the primacy that it should have ended in a futile resort to forgery .
16 It should have come as a complete surprise , but the man swayed , taking Ross 's fist on his shoulder .
17 It was unfortunate for Virgin that in applying for ‘ exemption ’ to fly into America they should have walked into a simmering row between the American and British governments over the British refusal to allow PanAm to operate a third frequency across the Atlantic .
18 Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain .
19 To the humans it must have sounded like a high-pitched chattering .
20 In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes !
21 But yesterday 's rain-hit showdown must have felt like a recurring nightmare for Faldo , too .
22 One must have served as a recumbent tombstone , since it has a slot at one end to hold a vertical cross .
23 I must have touched on a sensitive spot . ’
24 Originally this state must have led to a great deal of contradictory and ambivalent behaviour , with the bird being tugged in opposite directions by its opposing moods .
25 Martin Browne himself believed that Eliot was too ready to rely upon outworn social and theatrical conventions , but suggested that they " reflect an unconscious reversion to the drama that Eliot must have seen as a young theatregoer before 1914 " .
26 ‘ Then he must have gone into a steep dive .
27 She must have gone through a terrible period in her life ; looking back , she genuinely believed it to be worse than it really was .
28 ‘ did send a message by telephone which was grossly offensive , or ’ Means the message must have gone by a public telecommunication service and must be very offensive .
29 It was a hot day and Andy must have started with a distinct dehydration disadvantage .
30 In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done .
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