Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Museum curators often do not acquire more than one coin of the same type , and may additionally exercise their own judgement about which coins are worth obtaining . |
| 2 | Reserve your answer for the cameras , or you may inadvertently give him more fuel for his theme . |
| 3 | What facilities are available to me to respond to my assignment in multimedia terms ? a question which should importantly remind us all of the ready way in which many young people today think in visual or audio-visual terms . |
| 4 | So I mean it 's seventy miles so it should only take us another hour . |
| 5 | The committee 's first leaflet , We Must Win , declared : ‘ We must set out ideals and objectives in clear terms and we must so order our own mode of life and social system that men may know that we offer a happiness , freedom and prosperity which can never flourish under Hitler 's totalitarianism . |
| 6 | If he came home , like herself , depressed and disappointed , she must not add her own troubles to his ; poor Paul . |
| 7 | There was , however , no apparent motive , McLeish reminded himself , and he must not let his own uneasy conviction that Angela Morgan would have been more than capable of stirring up strong and complex emotions in those around her cloud his judgement . |
| 8 | Whatever our views on divorce , or of the rights and wrongs in the individual case , we must not allow our own values to override these efforts . |
| 9 | Judge Wroath was fully aware that he must not apply his own decision as to what D 's welfare required . |
| 10 | Turning to investment banking and I should just remind you that er , we take fifty percent of Brothers ' profits and ten percent of New York and Paris and given the conditions , given the environment last year , I do n't think need be ashamed of the performance er , although in London the only business to really come in , come in with impressive returns was er , asset trading money , broking and banking . |
| 11 | I do n't think you can do anything about me not getting an erm they should just pay me more should n't they , if they ask to ? |
| 12 | I must just tell you this , Laura did make me laugh , cos she said she stood up and she said , I 'm gon na give my talk about cats so I said , fine . |
| 13 | The Minister should not give us that disingenuous stuff about new equity , which is not meant to assist with buying Scottish Bus Group companies . |
| 14 | Australia and New Zealand should not build their own incinerator to dispose of toxic waste , but should instead develop a range of technologies , including portable systems , tailored to the particular properties of the waste . |
| 15 | Counsel may ‘ submit ’ and ‘ suggest ’ as strongly as he likes , and he may state propositions of law and fact , but he should not express his own belief or opinion . |
| 16 | The court should not substitute its own decision for that of the parent but had to say whether the parents ' decision was outside the band of reasonableness . |
| 17 | I should not permit myself such liberties ! |
| 18 | ( ‘ French science in its grandest fashion ’ , remarked Watson later , adding that the audience should not believe what some ‘ worse than third-rate authors ’ had written elsewhere . ) |
| 19 | Some recent interpretations of Greek history , and of the Greek historians ' versions of it , have suggested that there was , in fact , a gap between such ideals and the actual practice and that we should not take their own statements too literally . |
| 20 | Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 21 | And the Broadcasting Standards Council began its monitoring of the small screen with a warning from its chairman , Lord Rees-Mogg , that television producers should not impose their own values if they offended the viewing public . |
| 22 | Because of the existence of such prejudice among the early believers , it should not surprise us that prejudice will , and does , exist in churches today . |
| 23 | It should not surprise us that misery turns to protest when the temptation of the ballot box invites . ’ |
| 24 | There is no reason why Edinburgh should not develop its own range of street furniture designed by some of our young talents . |
| 25 | ‘ And you should not ask me that , either , ’ said Sally-Anne , head erect , carriage proud , refusing to be won over . |
| 26 | At a time when the largest nuclear power in the world is in the process of disintegration into separate republics , when that massive nuclear arsenal is under some central control of the remaining central authorities , and when our keen concern is to ensure that that security is real , it seems absolutely unthinkable that we should not have our own protection and the ultimate assurance of an independent deterrent . |
| 27 | The individual woman must somehow find her own approach to beauty , an image which is likely to be influenced by cultural expectations , by her own natural attributes , her personality , and by her current stage of life . |
| 28 | IBM should soon have its own 64-bit RISC architecture with the 620 PowerPC chip , Slack added . |
| 29 | ‘ My dearest David — although I do n't have the faintest idea why I should still call you this after what you told me last night — I 've had a long think . |
| 30 | You must always create things to look forward to , to enjoy and you must always reward yourself each week . |