Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also I remember a very , very early meeting when somebody said , ‘ Let's think of the reasons why we are glad to be gay , ’ and I thought , ‘ Rubbish , there are n't any , what nonsense . ’ |
| 2 | To which I reply , ‘ All right , let's think of the circumstances in which you might wish to say ‘ I 'm happy ’ in the most general sense , without limitation to any implied purpose or situation … ’ |
| 3 | Let's think of the general model right . |
| 4 | Similarly , however much we may disapprove of the Nazis judging Hitler to be evil is not a satisfactory historical explanation . |
| 5 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 6 | Alternatively we may think of the more modern figure of a man whose wealth lies in his investments in stocks and shares . |
| 7 | Twentieth century readers may think of the eighteenth century as a time when dirt was everywhere , and that personal hygiene was abysmal . |
| 8 | This kind of decision fits the model of a ‘ weighing ’ of considerations ; we may think of the man as piling items pro and con on opposite sides of a balance and making his judgement after one side goes down . |
| 9 | Economists may think of the interests of nations in terms of wealth , and lawyers in terms of adherence to legal rules working to one 's advantage . |
| 10 | We may think of the evaluation as having four foci : |
| 11 | Whatever we may think of the future , we think of the past as having been in its time as determinate as the present now is . |
| 12 | Whatever one may think of the effectiveness of the Valleys Initiative , it has the powerful appeal of historic social justice , since it offers the people of these areas a taste of the quality of life that has been achieved elsewhere through the profits of our industrial past . |
| 13 | We may think of the initial photon as being absorbed , so that the molecule is excited to a ‘ virtual ’ state , whose lifetime is so short that there is effectively immediate re-emission of a photon whose energy may be different from hν by a quantum of vibrational energy . |
| 14 | In the same way , we may think of the ideal encounter of a particle with a molecule as an elastic collision in which no energy is transferred . |
| 15 | Although the church has traditionally been reluctant to expose those to whom it delivers this service to public attention , the general assembly ought to know of the scale of the kirk 's response . |
| 16 | We must think of the nervous system encoding the perceived world ; and in trying to understand this process we should consider not individual spikes but their potentially infinite combinations . |
| 17 | I say to the orchestra , this is not the way ; you must think of the last bars as a fermata , a fermata that lasts the entire length of the coda . |
| 18 | But now , we must think of the clan . |
| 19 | I do n't eat much at lunch-time myself but we must think of the Captain here who 's doing all the work … perhaps a string or two of those wild boar sausages — do you think they 're local ? |
| 20 | Imagine then what Africans in South Africa must think of the miraculous transplant surgery of Dr Christian Barnard ! |
| 21 | Perhaps , however , we must think of the postman as having a seemingly well founded belief that he is delivering letters to real people . |
| 22 | " Well now , " she said in a brisk voice , " we must think of the future . |
| 23 | ‘ I must think of the future . |
| 24 | GUIL : Yes , one must think of the future . |
| 25 | At times , of course , we know that the rate of subsidence ( and the rate of uplift ) has influenced the type of sedimentation , so the two are connected , but my general thesis remains that for the preservation of the bulk of the continental stratigraphical record we must think of the two as separate and independent phenomena . |
| 26 | This approach is typified by Mackay , who has argued that because injury reduction was more realistic in the short term than accident prevention , one should think of the front end of a car ‘ primarily as a structure with which to hit a pedestrian ’ . |
| 27 | But , for the moment , we should think of the ideally rational agent as a limiting case or abstraction from homo sapiens in social life . |
| 28 | He must know of the siege , but presumably did not realise the urgency of their need . |
| 29 | ( a ) The accused himself must know of the obligation . |
| 30 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |