Example sentences of "[modal v] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dear God , we beseech ye , visit the reactive wrath of their own foulness upon those nasty wee buggers in the Khmer Rouge in general , and upon their torturers , and their leader Pol Pot , in particular ; may each iota of pain they have inflicted on the people of their country — heathen or not — rebound upon their central nervous system with all the agony they originally inflicted upon their victims . |
| 2 | By contrast , in a literary passage , especially when using verbatim scoring ( see Harrison , 1980 , for a discussion of different cloze scoring methods ) , a cloze score may misrepresent understanding by being artificially low . |
| 3 | What social services ought this generation to be constructing which the next or next but one will erect when the need for them is already yielding place to others ? |
| 4 | Question 1 Should sole practice on the traditional model , including the right to hold clients ' money , continue to be permitted without restriction ? |
| 5 | SHOULD Labour Councillors in Eastbourne , whose party has had the area to itself for as long as I can remember , ‘ knock on doors ’ in this area , I hope residents will raise the question of the state of the Neasham Road approach to Darlington , south of the railway bridge , particularly when at this time of year it is a pleasure to approach the town from any other direction . |
| 6 | SHOULD Labour councillors in Eastbourne , whose party has had the area to itself for as long as I can remember , ‘ knock on doors ’ in this area , I hope residents will raise the question of the state of the Neasham Road approach to Darlington , south of the railway bridge , particularly when at this time of year it is a pleasure to approach the town from any other direction . |
| 7 | Should that ballad of 1776 be classified as a ‘ myth ’ ? |
| 8 | Nor must this emphasis on the proprietary and financial aspects of a shareholder 's rights obscure the important fact that his shareholding causes him to become a member of an association , normally with rights to take part in its deliberation by attending and voting at its general meetings . |
| 9 | Furthermore , should such precision in stating a criterion enable test constructors to produce , unambiguously , a set of test items which exemplify it , there may be alternative ways of tackling the items . |
| 10 | It is this which has led some commentators to believe that the Eurocurrency market could create inflation within the US economy should large sums of Eurodollars be spent in the US by transformation , as it were , into domestic dollars . |
| 11 | So the newly established Energy Efficiency Office will have an important contribution to make in ‘ selling ’ energy efficiency particularly should rapid rises in energy prices not provide the prime incentive to economise . |
| 12 | It may be asked , however , to what extent this morphology would differ from that of thick-enamelled hominoid ancestors from the Miocene , and on what basis , therefore , should these fossils from Lothagam and Tabarin be identified as human ancestors . |
| 13 | Why , for example , should these statements of attainment be thought of as equivalent ? : |
| 14 | For instance , to what extent should increased sales of non-patented items be considered as a benefit accruing to the employer in relation to customers ordering patented goods ? |
| 15 | Should all members of the enemy 's population be equally at risk in time of war ? |
| 16 | The individual of course wants feeding needs feeding but should all resources of this area that area be rife to that particular point , every two to three years ? |
| 17 | Should all adverts for tobacco be banned ? |
| 18 | Should all offers of help be accepted ? |
| 19 | This means that not only must all shareholders of the same class receive the same offer but , for instance , if the offeror subsequently buys shares in the market at a higher price he must increase his offer generally to that higher price . |
| 20 | Should substantial sections of the population feel excluded , then there are dangers of alienation , lawlessness and damaging social divisions . |
| 21 | The Dean admits that the landowners are good preservers of the landscape , but he finds it ‘ improper that private citizens should enormous tracts of the English countryside ’ . |
| 22 | He despatched various officers to villages north of the Thames , and local PCs kept an eye on the sparse river crossings in case James should double back into Berkshire . |
| 23 | ‘ What on earth must those men at the station have thought of me ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Should policy-based limits on the freedom of adults to engage in sexual activity be more restrictive than those placed on willing participants in the game of hockey ? ’ |
| 25 | Yes , erm , going back to the original thing that brought this up , that we should descry people from using Nestlé 's products , erm , in fact implications will be quite wide , because they now own Rowntrees , and they own Cross and Blackwells , and they own all sorts of other companies . |
| 26 | It is reasonable to expect with a re an extensive programme like , like section eleven that there has been a build up of expertise , hat there has been a build up of educational resources and why should one area of the service be exempt from examination or assessment . |
| 27 | In no circumstances , the report stresses , should any part of goodwill be written off against reserves . |
| 28 | Should any part of the text , the version , or the entry tables prove to be unreadable , alternative tables are available to rebuild the data lost . |
| 29 | And from whose perspective should any assessment of gains and losses be taken ? |
| 30 | Finally it will contain the facilities to repair and rebuild itself should any combination of climate , beast , and machine conspire to break the structure down . |