Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 2 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 3 | I very much doubt whether Wolfgang will find there all those things which he has imagined and the great advantages which several people may perhaps have described to him . |
| 4 | Kirkman and Hendy , the Earl of Camden 's agents , may merely have responded to the College 's advertisement , but another explanation for their involvement seems possible . |
| 5 | ‘ And I tell you frankly that in my opinion one must not hesitate to go to a prostitute occasionally if there is one you can trust and feel something for … . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't see fit to compound this tragedy by adding to the deep distress that the incident must already have caused to you , the deceased 's relatives and others , ’ he said . |
| 7 | He must already have begun to be aware that his dependency on alcohol was weakening his creative drive . |
| 8 | Per Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. ( i ) In cases of doubt as to the effect of a purported refusal of treatment , where failure to treat threatens the patient 's life or to cause irreparable damage to his health , doctors and health authorities should not hesitate to apply to the courts for assistance ( post , pp. 798G — 799A , H ) . |
| 9 | In cases of doubt as to the effect of a purported refusal of treatment , where failure to treat threatens the patient 's life or threatens irreparable damage to his health , doctors and health authorities should not hesitate to apply to the courts for assistance . |
| 10 | But until I come to you , you should not try to come to me . ’ |
| 11 | If oil-drillers can exploit organic molecules to manipulate the flow and drillability of mud , there is no reason why cumulative selection should not have led to the same kind of exploitation by self-replicating minerals . |
| 12 | Textbooks are useful ( particularly for telling you which primary sources to look for ) , but you should not have to refer to them very often in writing your final essay or dissertation . |
| 13 | Feherty took 40 for the same stretch then declared ‘ I have only just got over influenza and I should not have travelled to Portugal . |
| 14 | She should not have gone to that party . |
| 15 | If I had held that the disturbance to residents in those roads was otherwise actionable in nuisance , I should not have acceded to those submissions . |
| 16 | Dannell throws doubt on the import of these wares into Britain prior to AD 43 , but with trans-continental trade already well established in pre-conquest times , it seems unlikely that fine pottery should not have come to Britain . |
| 17 | People in the regions should not have to travel to London in order to fly to the United States . |
| 18 | Such words between cousins should not have had to be spoken . |
| 19 | The very idea of being ‘ off the record ’ was nonsense , since the room was almost certainly wired , but George should still have stuck to protocol and said something polite like Oh yes , of course . |
| 20 | Their place in a group dominated by the Catholics no doubt reflected the regent 's desire for consent from Catholic and protestant alike ; and as yet she saw little reason to fear the Protestants , who must still have seemed to her far less of a threat than the strong Huguenot party in France . |
| 21 | He regarded it as essential that men become more deeply committed to their work through the formation of professional/occupational groups , since for them an involvement in the family did not provide a sufficiently sound moral basis for continued existence : ‘ Men must gradually become attached to their occupational or professional life … |
| 22 | What is most wanted in a woman is gentleness ; formed to obey a creature so imperfect as man , a creature often vicious and always faulty , she should early learn to submit to injustice and to suffer the wrongs inflicted on her by her husband without complaint . |
| 23 | At all stages the movement needs to be coached from the piano , but must always stay related to the recorded music . |
| 24 | It means that pupils must both want to come to the unit and eventually , to leave it . |
| 25 | Of course since the shielings were here to provide summer grazing for their cattle , the villages must also have echoed to people splashing about in mud and dung , and laments of , ‘ Dad , I hate these smelly big things . |
| 26 | Furthermore because these societies change and evolve it was natural that morals and laws should also change according to the social and economic system . |
| 27 | Radio broadcasts are another good means , but you should also try listening to the television . |
| 28 | Richard was engaged on what must often have appeared to him to be a bewildering balancing act . |
| 29 | If the rational expectations model of consumption is correct then this change in the process through which Y t is determined should affect the behaviour of C t ; that is , consumption should now behave according to : |
| 30 | In June of that year Eliot met a figure from what must now have seemed to the London banker a remote part of his life . |