Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordinary-quality facing bricks will be ideal for most outdoor walling , but you may want to consider using special-quality bricks in particularly exposed areas . |
| 2 | Finally , you will get slightly improved sound insulation as well — although for best results you need an air gap bigger than the 20mm maximum usually found in sealed units , and you may want to consider having secondary acoustic double glazing as well . |
| 3 | In his first letter from there he makes a significant little admission to Theo , and encloses a sketch : ‘ I should like to begin making hasty sketches of some of the many things I meet … but as it would probably keep me from my real work it is better not to start . ’ |
| 4 | In the long run most products can be copied , and so one must keep innovating to remain different . |
| 5 | Both Charles Booth and Helen Bosanquet felt that the majority of working class wives were too ill-trained to command a decent wage outside the home and that they should stop struggling to do two jobs , thereby also reducing the amount of un-and under-employment among men . |
| 6 | We should try to stop cutting all the trees down because soon all the animals wo n't have homes . |
| 7 | Surely someone somewhere should have checked to make sure that it was correct . ’ |
| 8 | Sir Anthony Meyer : I my right Hon. Friend aware that the very ambitious urban aid programme that was announced today will be warmly welcomed and that there will be special pleasure that Clwyd has not suffered at the hands of south Wales , although we should have liked to see more projects ? |
| 9 | Since you needs must drag me here , I should have liked to see this Hotspur men talk so much about . ’ |
| 10 | Which made it the more regrettable that , in an age when abortion is pressed on one as if it were a free sample , she should have contrived to have four children in six years — unwanted , dubiously parented , ill cared for . |
| 11 | In a reply to Clark 's letter , he says ‘ The allegations of Dr Clark compel me to place on record facts that I should have preferred to remain private . |
| 12 | And I should have remembered to dance barefoot through the dew and bow to the rising sun . ’ |
| 13 | The fact that Chant , knowing he was going to be murdered ( that much was cogent ) , should have chosen to set these nonsenses down as vital information was proof of significant derangement . |
| 14 | Still , he was shocked that she should have chosen to play such a part . |
| 15 | That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental . |
| 16 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 17 | However , it seemed rather strange that Shipton , a man with enormous powers of observation , should have failed to notice such an important recording of ancient life . |
| 18 | ( One may however ask after the nature of men in so far as it has been men rather than women who have created these pictures of the world and of the ‘ place ’ of woman within it such that they should have needed to construct such a misogynist picture . ) |
| 19 | The presentation of memories as they were told brings this book alive , but the Civic Society might have been better served by their publisher who should have avoided duplicating four paragraphs in two chapters attributed to different contributors . |
| 20 | Your spirit and mine must have met to comfort each other ! |
| 21 | And er I thought it was , what a money it must have cost to put that one commercial firm doing that . |
| 22 | He must have loved doing that wonderful Spanish riding . ’ |
| 23 | Let us bear in mind how much they must have suffered to achieve such beauty . |
| 24 | Alongside the new-fangled blast furnace the traditional bloom process must have continued to occupy many people for short periods every year . |
| 25 | In many respects the Red Wedge Tour must have helped alleviate some of the frustration and downright weirdness that was bubbling away in Smithdom . |
| 26 | Survey after survey , purporting to display a swing to Labour which would instal Mr Kinnock in Downing Street , must have helped to focus many uncertain minds . |
| 27 | Judging from all the chatter , everyone in UCD must have got to know each other pretty quickly , Benny thought as she went up the steps the following morning . |
| 28 | Mrs Nowak and Taczek must have got to know most of the truth and stuck by the cover story . |
| 29 | Must mention Does need some attention . |
| 30 | In the normal course of events by no means all of these potential relationships will exist , but in an emergency , when the project manager may feel constrained to supervise all individual and joint activities , very large numbers are clearly possible if organizational steps have not been taken to provide effective control . |