Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should try to stop cutting all the trees down because soon all the animals wo n't have homes . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Since you needs must drag me here , I should have liked to see this Hotspur men talk so much about . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Still , he was shocked that she should have chosen to play such a part . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | Your spirit and mine must have met to comfort each other ! |
| 11 | And er I thought it was , what a money it must have cost to put that one commercial firm doing that . |
| 12 | He must have loved doing that wonderful Spanish riding . ’ |
| 13 | Let us bear in mind how much they must have suffered to achieve such beauty . |
| 14 | Alongside the new-fangled blast furnace the traditional bloom process must have continued to occupy many people for short periods every year . |
| 15 | In many respects the Red Wedge Tour must have helped alleviate some of the frustration and downright weirdness that was bubbling away in Smithdom . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mrs Nowak and Taczek must have got to know most of the truth and stuck by the cover story . |
| 19 | Must mention Does need some attention . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is your inheritance and your birthright , and although we may appear to have taken that from you , we have not really done so . ’ |
| 22 | With the war now raging in the Middle East we might feel tempted to question such certainty . |
| 23 | You 'll have to let get all the way . |
| 24 | Well you have to have , you have to have a the only the trouble with it is , I 've got , I 'll either have to put them up here or I 'll have to scrape scrape some of the wall out I ca n't close the door ! |
| 25 | If for example you 've got a problem with productivity in your patch , erm because of the , the reasons we 've talked about , it does mean that perhaps you need to say to whoever has been , is off and doing other projects that they 'll have to stop doing that until you 've got the productivity up till you can release them back again . |
| 26 | Well I 'll have to keep doing these pools . |
| 27 | I think I 'll try to do put some more to this letter . |
| 28 | LORD Spencer 's death might have served to remind this country of the dread winter of 1978/1979 when rubbish was uncollected in the streets , the fire brigades were on strike , hospitals were picketed by auxiliary workers who demanded to approve all surgical operations , housewives fought each other over a cauliflower leaf and the dead lay unburied in every churchyard . |
| 29 | It would have taken something of a miracle to attract the capital investment which might have begun to change this state of affairs . |
| 30 | This is not really good enough for a supposedly authoritative special publication under the RSC 's banner and I feel that , overall , a more convincing book might have emerged had all the papers been independently refereed . |