Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may laugh at this rvolutionary theory BUT I speak from experience . |
| 2 | Any worker may eat at any of the canteens or special selection dining rooms . |
| 3 | Moreover , different configurations may arise at various times . |
| 4 | Both types of mutation — harmful or useful — may arise at different rates depending on stresses inherent in the environment . |
| 5 | Kay O'Neill , who lives in the street , said her house was worth much more than one may think at first glance . |
| 6 | Because expression may exist at various levels of abstraction ( for example , in the program 's structure ) the courts have to be able to distinguish between idea and expression . |
| 7 | Leadership is also apparent in many different spheres of activity — the military , the political , the organisational and so on — and it may exist at different levels . |
| 8 | In his poetry , Wordsworth uses the language of faith years before his ‘ prose mind ’ can accept Christian doctrine ; this is why his ‘ conversion ’ is impossible to date , and why there is so much divergence between the poetic and prose statements he may make at any stage in his progress . |
| 9 | Sceptics may baulk at such an idea , but given the attested presence of such equally implausible-sounding objects as a block of portable eighteenth-century soup ( ex Captain Cook ) , Inuit seal-gut underwear , African cobweb hats and other equally exotic objects , the concept of dressed fleas may seem more acceptable . |
| 10 | Some may baulk at such a suggestion but it is only making explicit what archivists do implicitly . |
| 11 | Some of the latter may excel at specialised subjects such as engineering or finance . |
| 12 | Fewer teachers have difficulties in responding to reminders that children share substantial common ground regardless of whatever special attention they may need at any one time . |
| 13 | Spending departments were to carry out reviews of programmes by questioning existing commitments and to ask whether they should exist at all and not only how they should be carried out ( see Pliatzky , 1982 , p. 99 ) . |
| 14 | In this chapter I shall argue that the no boundary condition for the universe , together with the weak anthropic principle , can explain why all three arrows point in the same direction — and moreover , why a well-defined arrow of time should exist at all . |
| 15 | Even to me then , it was strange that such a perception should dawn at that moment , when dogs were barking , wind was blowing in , everyone was making a hubbub , and Mary Shelley stood before me . |
| 16 | The draft reply contained one threat to report I M R O to the Securities and Investment Board for excessive enquiries er and for an unreasonable attitude and the other er bit of the reply was effectively a form of covering up presenting full financial information and disclosure to I M R O. Those replies were drafted by people inside the Maxwell organisation and you may want to comment on er the position , although I should stress at this stage that I like you have not seen the final version of any reply and I do not know whether I M R O persisted . |
| 17 | The Boundary Commission for Scotland concludes that the number of Scottish seats in the House of Commons should remain at 72 in spite of widespread speculation over the loss of Glasgow seats . |
| 18 | Divisional Grant should remain at 230 , but the extra payment option in case of need be increased from 75 to 100 . |
| 19 | No sir I I do accept first of all that the capacity of the city should remain at thirty three . |
| 20 | The age of consent was considered by the Policy Advisory Committee which recommended that it should remain at 16 . |
| 21 | Subsistence should remain at 11.50 per day , as this had been increased ahead of inflation in recent years . |
| 22 | In 1988 , the government 's Chief Medical Officer , Sir Donald Acheson , told the DoE that the level should remain at 50 mg/litre , mainly because , if a cancer risk existed , it would be a result of long-term exposure . |
| 23 | Calvet was in spectacular form at Paris , calling for an immediate rethink on Japanese access to Europe and outlining a five-point plan : that no new transplants be established in Europe ; that those in existence have outputs capped ; that quotas be maintained between 1992 and 2002 and continued after that if the Japanese do n't play ball ; that overall European penetration levels should stay at 10 per cent from the East and that France could keep its three per cent quota ; and finally , that all Japanese cars , no matter where they 're built , should be included in calculations , and the EC should assist automotive industry investment . |
| 24 | If we have not got through for what we need to er examine then the proposition is that we should reconvene at five thirty this evening . |
| 25 | I should think at that time the employers thought , Well we do n't want to be arguing about wages every five minutes during this War business you know and they all got b you know they got bags of work you know that of course , do n't you ? |
| 26 | We have said that nationalized industries should price at social marginal cost , but should this be short-run marginal cost ( SMC ) or long-run marginal cost ( LMC ) ? |
| 27 | You must wait at that depth , within 0.5 metres , until a shallower depth or a new no-stop time is indicated . |
| 28 | ‘ Is it important that you should know at this very moment ? ’ |
| 29 | They have basic rights which you should respect at all times . |
| 30 | Feminists must baulk at any … conclusion which implies that the vast audience of romance readers ( with the exception of a few up-front intellectuals ) are either masochistic or inherently stupid . |