Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ We ought to go straight to meet Cobalt but there are other things I want first . ’ |
| 2 | But if a judge errs the other way and fines a rapist a few hundred pounds , or puts on probation a bank robber with previous convictions who clearly ought to go directly to jail , nothing happens . |
| 3 | Work continues with NEC on the low-power VRX R4000 iteration , though SGI has n't decide whether it 'll productise the thing yet , it may prefer instead to let NEC bring portable technologies to market and OEM them . |
| 4 | He may prefer only to claim that they apply once ethical language and judgement are understood in the way he recommends . |
| 5 | ‘ Let's make somewhere to leave them . ’ |
| 6 | In order that this may swell easily to accommodate its rapidly accumulating tissues , this simple body is not burdened with a heavy sclerotised skeleton but enclosed in a thin and to some degree stretchable cuticle . |
| 7 | Any such artefact may seek either to proclaim or to hide the material used and the constraints the material has imposed upon the technological process : a mask may be thought to incorporate the spiritual properties of the wood from which it is taken ; a group of people may refuse to purchase an item known to be of seal skin ; a plastic may seek to copy a more traditional material ; the gold from which an object is made may have far greater significance than the actual form into which it has been hammered . |
| 8 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 9 | A number of students may opt instead to spend this term at one of the following European universities — Amsterdam , Ghent , Autonomous University of Barcelona , as part of an ERASMUS exchange project . |
| 10 | But in any case if , as was argued in Chapter 1 , companies should be viewed as social enterprises , that is , they should be understood as vehicles for the promotion of the general good , then a requirement that managers should comply with publicly articulated decision- making standards , and that mechanisms should exist visibly to test compliance with them , should be regarded as something that is desirable in itself . |
| 11 | She told her that it had been suggested to her that she should remain behind to rest , but she did not consider her darling Thomas would have approved of this . |
| 12 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 13 | Rather than see their goods hawked by retailers on the brink of bankruptcy , luxury firms must act fast to protect their brands . |
| 14 | We must act now to stop this happening . |
| 15 | Given the present serious market situation and the fact that revenue from spirits is falling in real terms , the Chancellor must act now to remove or reduce the differentials between the excise duty on spirits and those on beer and wine . |
| 16 | And , if so , did the assumption of nobility mean that a man must act nobly to merit his new position ? |
| 17 | Clough must act quickly to arrest Forest 's bottom-of-the-table plight because the fear of relegation is spreading through the club . |
| 18 | The world must wait however to discover whether Kylie will be cast as some lovelorn , tragic Juliet to Jason 's Romeo or whether her musical will , in the mould of The Delinquents , be a rock and roll high school blockbuster , like Grease , the movie she admits she has loved since her Melbourne childhood . |
| 19 | The manager must strive systematically to increase responsibility within his team and thus develop experience and confidence in his staff . |
| 20 | If he is arming , you must do likewise to avoid your worst outcome ( to get 2 rather than 1 ) . |
| 21 | But he must do more to suppress the air of lawlessness that now abounds ( which would incidentally take the wind out of the Congress 's sails ) and persuade people that paying taxes is a social virtue ( which would then help balance Russia 's books ) . |
| 22 | ‘ We believe that the British Government must do more to oppose the job discrimination that has created unemployment levels two and a half times higher for Catholic workers than Protestant workers . |
| 23 | ‘ Despite Olivetti 's best efforts , it is continuing to be hurt by falling computer prices and must do more to cut costs to bring it back to operating profitability , ’ one source said . |
| 24 | Engineers should contribute effectively to risk management within their organisation by doing everything reasonably practicable to ensure that good practice is being followed . |
| 25 | PROFESSOR GEORGE Teeling-Smith has provided the nation with a grim warning , and one we should do well to heed before we are all poisoned to death . |
| 26 | With that in mind , I am offering readers the thought that we should do well to upgrade the status of repossession from ungentlemanly pastime to true sport . |
| 27 | WEALTHY businessmen who have benefited from low tax rates should do more to subsidise the arts , the chairman of the Arts Council said yesterday . |
| 28 | But the jungle lodges should do more to make contact with the local communities , to tell them what they are doing . |
| 29 | Throughout most of those countries the universal view is that Britain should do more to enhance its reputation through the fund . |
| 30 | Parents need to provide their children with firm guidance and positive models of behaviour ; schools should do more to prepare pupils for the responsibilities of being parents . |