Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an officer does not need to sample to fill his quota he may prefer to rely on his experienced eye instead and run the risk that an invisible pollutant like zinc is present . |
| 2 | Catalonia may want to brag about its exploits , but the Olympic Games is about those who compete , those who win and lose gloriously . |
| 3 | When a dog does start to show signs of becoming difficult about a visit to the surgery , you may want to arrange with your vet simply to walk up to the waiting room , pause here for a few moments and then return home . |
| 4 | If you find that your dog still appears distressed , in spite of all your attempts to settle it down to travel readily in a car , then you may want to speak with your vet about the problem . |
| 5 | ‘ I ought to haff got to my tree by now , ’ she told herself presently , in her lilting Welsh voice . |
| 6 | Parents may need to sit with their children during this learning phase to encourage them to stay seated and to talk to them and distract them with stories and play . |
| 7 | that you may consider using for your essay ? |
| 8 | They had arrived back at her hotel , however , before Fabia realised that they were at cross purposes about why she should want to return to her hotel so early . |
| 9 | At the end of a short service of prayer , she wanted to know why half a lady should want to materialise in her kitchen . |
| 10 | It 's only natural that you should want to know about my parents . ’ |
| 11 | Very often when individuals are under stress the very activities that they should endeavour to keep in their weekly timetable get squeezed out or avoided . |
| 12 | ‘ You should 've stayed with my dad , ’ said Camille . |
| 13 | Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git . |
| 14 | Although you should shoot for your best shots , you should prepare to run on your feet all day . |
| 15 | Organisations should consider incorporating in their equal opportunity statements their commitment not to discriminate arbitrarily on the grounds of age . |
| 16 | What is immediately needed is that teachers should bring to bear on their day to day problems astringent intellectual scrutiny . |
| 17 | The economic and unemployment misery daily portrayed through the British media should make us all more aware that we must begin to look after our own . |
| 18 | Now , however , he knew the army must begin to shrink towards its battle order . |
| 19 | The Plowden Report on Control of Public Expenditure contained , amongst other nuggets of wisdom , the following sentence which I should like to take as my starting-point : ‘ The social changes of the last fifteen years have altered the incidence of hardship , so that there now may well be excessive social services for some purposes and inadequate ones for others . ’ |
| 20 | I should like to go on my own but I do see that the gig would be a little draughty at night in evening dress . |
| 21 | I should like to put to my hon. Friend the Minister one or two points which , due to his courtesy , I have been able to discuss with him briefly during the past few days . |
| 22 | We should like to ask for your co-operation in the BMRC Businessman Survey . |
| 23 | Ellis has sent us some veal and ham pie and a few half-bottles of champagne : I must keep playing on his guilt . |
| 24 | And , somehow , I too must keep going without my sun . |
| 25 | If the model should decide to rotate on its own accord due to something having broken , it will usually stay in one spot and rotate quite happily . |
| 26 | For if the former , compared to the latter , are indeed quite different types of people , then maybe we should stop looking to our political authorities and criminal justice system for protection from those beneath us in impoverished urban neighbourhoods . |
| 27 | A SFWP statement responded : ‘ Companies engaged in the robbery of our mineral and oil wealth should stop interfering with our democratic system in the hope of increasing their political influence ’ . |
| 28 | You must stop participating in their war . ’ |
| 29 | It is particularly vulnerable to claims that it is acting abusively in a particular market , and must avoid discriminating between its competitors or using its market dominance in a manner which can be construed as unfair or intended to eliminate a competitor or competition . |
| 30 | When you are working on curved designs you should try to sort through your material and choose stems that are curved , as they will give a much more natural effect than if you have to use entirely straight pieces and encourage them to curl . |