Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll spend the first couple of hours with ‘ Power Missy ’ trying to work out whether it 's a tease or a threat and then , just when you decide you really ca n't decide whether they 're all Polly Harvey bolshie or Sundays pliant , it may dawn on you that ‘ PM ’ is , in fact , f—ing scary , like playing S&M games with a dangerous schizophrenic . |
| 2 | let's think about what this means for education , let's er , work out how you learn , okay . |
| 3 | ‘ Let's think about it some more — but it sounds like something we could go for . ’ |
| 4 | What is being compared ultimately is our own response to works of art and to the qualities of simplicity in early Cycladic art , which we may compare with our own feeling for the qualities of simplicity in some of this century 's art . |
| 5 | They may exist in their own right or they may be illustrations in a book . |
| 6 | She 's very kind , but we ought to stand on our own feet . |
| 7 | Are we prepared to discipline ourselves to restrictions and regulations that we feel we ought to impose for our own good ? |
| 8 | But we must go further and when men speak of dark skies , we must think of our own bright interior skies . |
| 9 | As the figures show , Conservative supporters are keenest that their party should govern on its own . |
| 10 | A judge has decided the youngster should remain with her former foster parents until the case can be heard in full next year . |
| 11 | But for John Knox , ‘ so she was sold to go to France , to the end that in her youth she should drink of that liquor ( the Catholic faith ) that should remain with her all her lifetime , for a plague to this realm and for her final destruction ’ . |
| 12 | Sutherland , stressing that it is the largest land-based district council area in Britain , is one of the Highland authorities that believes it should remain on its own . |
| 13 | Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field . |
| 14 | The New Secondary Education , the pamphlet approved by Ellen Wilkinson and issued in 1947 , observed somewhat unhelpfully : ‘ The Modern School will be given parity of conditions with other types of secondary school ; parity of esteem it must earn by its own efforts . ’ |
| 15 | Note that it is not possible to apply for a family assistance order ; the court must act of its own volition . |
| 16 | IAN RUSH makes a welcome return to action for crisis club Liverpool here tonight insisting : ‘ We must win for our own good . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ As you should know from your own experiences ’ — he glanced up at the framed portrait of Commonweal School staff and pupils , September 1948 — ‘ the notion that the camera never lies is a fallacy . |
| 18 | People know what the boundaries are ; they know where they should act on their own and where not . |
| 19 | The principles of the common law invoked in such cases are nemo judex in causa sua ( no man can be a judge in this own cause ) ; or auctor in rem suam ( no man should act in his own interest ) . |
| 20 | Clients taking alternative holiday insurance should refer to their own policy . |
| 21 | Well , I 'm sorry , if I was in my workplace I would n't be happy representing a member and then be told by the employer , I 'm not required to tell you why you 've lost your appeal and I do n't think this is something we should do within our own organization on our own members . |
| 22 | There were seven levels of spirituality , Hawk had told her , and she must ascend through them all before she was readied for her appointed task . |
| 23 | We must stick to our own style . |
| 24 | Additionally , engineers should look after their own personal safety , and help others to look after theirs . |
| 25 | There is no inconsistency in my and my neighbour 's holding that we each should look after our own dog ( or sleep with our own wife , come to that ) . |
| 26 | To the man of reason , that as a physically and mentally distinct person he should look after his own interests seems self-evident like a geometrical axiom , that he should care for others seems to require proof like a theorem . |
| 27 | ‘ People should keep to their own religion and that 's that ’ , says one boy . |
| 28 | In another case Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro , a well-known and respected archaeologist at the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro in Rome , wrote that during restoration work on Wiligelmo 's reliefs at Modena , the original polychrome was brutally scratched away ; when Raffaella Rossi Manaresi of Bologna 's Cesare Gnudi open-air sculpture conservation centre ventured to reply , she was virtually told that , as a chemist , she should keep to her own field . |
| 29 | A snail should keep to its own shell , that 's what I say — not go crawling about the country creeping into another 's . |
| 30 | This argument takes one of two forms depending upon the outlook of its proponent : either it is said that Europe must look to her own defence as a consequence of the American disengagement ; alternatively it is argued that Europe ought in principle to defend herself , so as to speed the departure of the US troops and be free of American ‘ domination ’ . |