Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His position is that we should think of rules as practices , as ways of behaving , and not suppose that to support this way of behaving there must be some internal interpretation of the rule which tells the rule-followers how to work the rule . |
| 2 | The class must consist of persons whose rights are not so dissimilar as to make it impossible for them to consult together with a view to their common interest ( Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dunn [ 1892 ] 2 QB 573 ) . |
| 3 | In 1911 it required that one-third of all boarding-out committees should consist of women , for their assumed superior sensitivity to children 's needs , and that relieving officers should no longer supervise boarded-out children , thus removing such children from direct stigmatizing contact with the official administration of the Poor Law . |
| 4 | The crop is normally spring sown and should consist of varieties likely to ripen together . |
| 5 | WOMEN motorists should beware of men attempting to persuade them to stop and leave their cars , police said yesterday after an incident on the A706 Whitburn-Linlithgow road . |
| 6 | However , we must beware of interpretations which are deceptively simple . |
| 7 | You must surely be right when you say in your editorial today ( ‘ Judging public mood ’ ) that judges should dispose of cases on their merits rather than , as Lord Chief Justice Taylor suggests , pass sentence with an eye to the public 's expectations . |
| 8 | It is such questions which one must ask of Christians , particularly Christians who would be feminist , who explain that the creation story ( or any other part of the Christian story which may be said to be sexist ) is to them a ‘ true myth ’ . |
| 9 | These may consist of constraints imposed by the finance section , the legal or tax advisors , those who set the house-style for documents , and so on , representing elements of the wider system , which is influenced in turn by environmental factors . |
| 10 | The audience may consist of non-lawyers , who , of course , come simply to be entertained . |
| 11 | The signature may consist of initials . |
| 12 | A chemical system may consist of atoms , molecules and ions or any combination of these . |
| 13 | This may consist of files on clients , historical papers , minutes , prospectuses , handbooks , codes of practice , etc . |
| 14 | ‘ I promise I 'll think of others before myself in future , ’ she said , and her Mum hugged her tight . |
| 15 | These punches might consist of elements of the design ( such as part of the king 's crown ) or of letters in the inscription , and a careful examination of the coins can reveal that they were struck from dies made from the same punches ( fig. 5 ) . |
| 16 | Of course , we might dream of questions , |
| 17 | It 's tempting to wonder what he 'd make of wordsmiths all around re-writing his work ; mellowed out or gobsmacked ? |
| 18 | ‘ Any damn fool … could think of questions ; it was answers that separated the men from the boys . ’ |
| 19 | Secondly , it must be said that , from the very start , Christians strained ordinary human language in order to speak of the significance of Christ ; the term Christ was an inclusive term , such that one could speak of persons as being ‘ in Christ ’ . |
| 20 | We 'd speak of ships and times at sea |
| 21 | I went along there one afternoon and stuck my head round the door ; saw two men in the sort of office you 'd expect of solicitors — box files in neat rows and shelf upon shelf of law reports . |
| 22 | And they had fought for their country in 1939 when the Irish Republic remained neutral which was , after all , just what one could expect of rebels who had taken advantage of Britain 's involvement in the First World War to stage the 1916 Easter Rising . |
| 23 | Objectives ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) could consist of checks after a preliminary period of revision or practice carried out by the student on her own . |
| 24 | Ornamental herbs for the terrace could consist of mixtures of catmint , old-fashioned marigolds ( calendula species ) , the Florentine iris , jasmine , wallflowers , basil — the purple-leaved kind — Rosa gallica officinalis , blue-leaved rue , and the ever-greens referred to above . |
| 25 | Shaun Gooch spent the entire morning in the witness box telling what he could remember of events on the night of the crash in Swindon 's Akers Way . |
| 26 | I could boast of times when I have been successful ( been successful ) |
| 27 | Nothing good could come of things here below . |
| 28 | The state of emergency was repeatedly extended , and a string of massacres gave rise to continuing claims and counter-claims about the disregard for human rights , although in February 1990 the repeal of emergency regulation 55F removed the authority under which the security forces could dispose of bodies without any inquest ( a particular feature of their late 1979 campaign in crushing the JVP insurgency in the south ) . |
| 29 | The notion of freedom may permit of degrees therefore ; whereas right is a right or it is nothing . |
| 30 | Texts used to talk of organisations having just one goal , frequently profit maximisation . |