Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I stand behind the till faced with a customer buying a 40p postcard with a £50 note , I wonder what I can usefully tell any bookseller about why they should consider selling things other than books . |
| 2 | Teachers should try to identify criteria such as those mentioned above to guide their selection of content . |
| 3 | William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable . |
| 4 | It was a reasonable enough question , she thought , considering that they must have walked miles that day . |
| 5 | In June the Bernheim Jeune Gallery showed seventy-nine of Cézanne 's watercolours and in October the Salon d'Automne featured a restrospective of his work , the largest to date , which included some of the iridescent , highly abstracted late landscapes and some ‘ unfinished ’ paintings — paintings in which patches of bare canvas were retained ; these must have allowed painters further insights into Cézanne 's thought processes and working methods . |
| 6 | That is to say , bodies should continue to submit applications one month prior to the end of their respective financial years , but grant aid will not be provided for any governing body which submits its application more than three months after the required date . |
| 7 | Until then they had treated him with a mixture of sympathy as a man caught up , by line of duty , in a political imbroglio , and suspicion at what he might do to make things worse . |
| 8 | But analysts also said if the dividend had been cut , it might have made investors nervous about the July BT3 share flotation , when the government intends to sell all of its remaining 22% stake in the group . |
| 9 | Er , next week will be the last week for selling tickets for the social so if you 'd like to come tickets next week . |
| 10 | Although there were many existing and potential foreign competitors in the car industry , car prices in Britain were already significantly higher than in other EC countries and such a dominant company could have made matters worse . |
| 11 | The visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals by Graves and could have turned ends 9–9 had he been successful with his third penalty goal on half-time . |
| 12 | Henry could not quite work out why , since her pleasantness was not always followed by a request for money or some other favour ; perhaps she was remembering something he had quite forgotten , an incident during their courtship perhaps ( they must have had a courtship ) or a Henry , now lost to Henry himself , who could have inspired feelings such as pleasure . |
| 13 | This water could have left features visible today , such as dendritic channels . |
| 14 | ‘ Now that it 's over , you 'd expect they 'd start getting things right at last , would n't you ? ’ said Mrs Parvis , standing up at the end of the table to ladle out to her assembled household . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd love to win games 6-0 playing entertaining skilful football , but equally I 'd like to stay in a job . ’ |
| 16 | The coroner Nicholas Gardner said the Metro driver 's attempts to regain control of her car may have made matters worse . |
| 17 | I infer from that he may have had reasons other than professional ones for taking on the employment you offered him . |
| 18 | Psychoanalysts influenced by feminism may try to develop methods sensitive to gender-specific experiences . |
| 19 | On the other hand the open villages , because they attracted the surplus labour force , contained workers on depressed wages who could ill afford rents which would make housing improvements profitable . |
| 20 | We believe that a Town and Country Planning measure on the lines indicated would give planning authorities all the scope which they need and which the 1932 Act failed to give them . |
| 21 | It would begin to make industries accountable to consumers in a way that they patently are not at present ; the newly enfranchised shareholders would have the right to participate in elections to the board . |
| 22 | But she thought of how , if the positions had been reversed , she would have written pages full of detail to Ellen , would have described a child in such a way as to make him spring from the writing , alive and visible . |
| 23 | And I believe his motivations would have encompassed things other than his own predicament . |
| 24 | Guglielmi acknowledges this but says that if his company had ignored the market it would have given competitors free rein . |
| 25 | Guglielmi acknowledges this but says that if his company had ignored the market it would have given competitors free rein . |
| 26 | Guglielmi acknowledges this but says that if his company had ignored the market it would have given competitors free rein . |
| 27 | Quite a variety of Silurian plants are now known , and by the end of the Devonian it is apparent that most of the problems of terrestrial living had been solved , to the extent that large tree ‘ ferns ’ of the time would have had dimensions comparable with forest trees today . |
| 28 | A High Court judge refused to grant an injunction which would have forced publishers Methuen to remove the characters , drawn by former Daily Mirror cartoonist Griffin . |
| 29 | The second part of the exception would apply to spare parts such as replacement body panels for cars where the design is dictated by the appearance of the car but it is unlikely that many computer spare parts will fall into this category . |
| 30 | The report in 1977 was valuable but rather theoretical , and shortly afterwards the BLR&DD commissioned the Royal College of Art to produce a library guiding manual which would aim to give librarians practical advice on designing and implementing library signing systems which would be effective , attractive , quick and economical to produce and easy to maintain and update . |