Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my hon. Friend agree that what has happened in East Timor is the very opposite of good governance and that that ought to influence our aid programme to Indonesia ? |
| 2 | Jean to get right let's do your son . |
| 3 | ‘ In Germany , even with 10 men , we had two good chances against them , and that must give us hope . |
| 4 | And that should give us food for thought ; while his uncle William in Frome , amongst others , was receiving poor relief at the rate of between 1s. and 4s. per fortnight , here , in the same year of 1799 , the nephew-made-good was handing over what amounted to about a year 's dole payments to join an exclusive club in the metropolis . |
| 5 | ‘ You need n't worry ; when I leave here you need never see me again , so that should set your conscience at rest . ’ |
| 6 | And that should inform your thinking when somebody rings you up and says , ‘ My editor tells me that this happened . |
| 7 | That should ensure her safety , since the disc jockey inevitably stuck to the same pattern of fast music at this stage of the evening , keeping the slow , romantic records for the end of the night . |
| 8 | Dorothea wondered why that should preclude her concern in the affairs of others . |
| 9 | That should take his mind off prime ministerial ambitions for a while . |
| 10 | That should catch his attention . ’ |
| 11 | That should please your father . " |
| 12 | That should grab her attention . |
| 13 | That should concentrate their mind on the need to give any affected party the opportunity to make submission on any such departure and also to facilitate the communication of the nature of the departure to the affected party . |
| 14 | ‘ That should suit your taste for the melodramatic . ’ |
| 15 | That should help your mood ! ’ |
| 16 | However , some may change their behaviour , some may want to talk and others wo n't . |
| 17 | Some may change their status from ‘ visiting scholar ’ with a year 's stay to Ph.D . |
| 18 | Some may find their way to suburban , provincial , or country destinations . |
| 19 | Many patients with Type 2 diabetes retain some degree of endogenous insulin production , and this may explain their tendency to have more stable blood glucose levels in contrast to patients with Type I diabetes . |
| 20 | This may explain its reluctance to come out of four wheel drive . |
| 21 | This may explain my confusion on reading a newspaper advertisement touting a book on baseball by Roger Angell . |
| 22 | So far we have reported Afro-Caribbean pupils ' perception of the attitudes held by certain teachers and how this may influence their behaviour . |
| 23 | Retroviral particles displaying antibodies against cell surface antigens should bind preferentially to target cells expressing those antigens , and this may facilitate their infection . |
| 24 | The danger in quoting fragments of their writings out of context is that this may distort their intention and produce a static picture . |
| 25 | This may affect their autonomy at least in terms of overall policy . |
| 26 | Many people do not use these resonators fully , and this may cause their throat to feel strained and their tone of voice to sound thin and forced . |
| 27 | Publicizing this may undermine their legitimacy , an outcome they would want to avoid . |
| 28 | You should , of course , still be treated fairly and this may entail your employer looking round his organisation , perhaps even the whole corporate group of which he is part , to see if you can be fitted in elsewhere at an appropriate level , before finally deciding to terminate your employment . |
| 29 | Transferring these animals from one shore to another may change their shell colour . |
| 30 | One horse may say , ‘ I like you ’ , by mouthing his owner 's hand with his lips and tongue ; another may put his head on his owner 's shoulder ; or a third may come up to his owner and make some other form of body contact . |