Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [conj] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may think that this risk is remote for major sovereign borrowers , but it has happened in the past . |
| 2 | Perhaps editors need to bear in mind what authors may think when this sort of thing happens and keep them better informed . |
| 3 | In which case we may predict that this craft activity was on a small scale producing no concentrated evidence . |
| 4 | Because while from the safety of our historical vantage point we may doubt whether this kind of incident was anything more than an isolated occurrence , and while the details leave room to quibble about the gravity of the wounding cases , to commentators at the turn of the century here was a sure sign that something dangerously new was afoot , which had come all-too-terribly alive in the person of the ‘ Hooligan ’ . |
| 5 | Again , one may doubt whether this interpretation would be very palatable in Conservative circles . |
| 6 | However , we should emphasize that this stalemate is highly unlikely . |
| 7 | But I must emphasize that this concept of relationship is an abstraction , an invention of the observing anthropologist . |
| 8 | The HRD practitioner should stress that this statement is not a list of short-term objectives and should monitor the writing process carefully to ensure that the statement is sufficiently detailed and focused on behavior . |
| 9 | The later Lives of Aethelberht place his accession in 779 so that the suspicion must arise that this note is perhaps based on a misreading of a king-list which concluded by simply listing these names and misled the annalist into thinking that the kingdom had been partitioned among them . |
| 10 | Inevitably those few insiders who do undertake postgraduate research in the social sciences are aware that they are involved in the creation of ‘ clap trap ’ , and must know that this denigration stems from the implicit threat they pose to the structures of pedagogy and institutional power . |
| 11 | We must know whether this company is insolvent and therefore whether it should continue trading . ’ |
| 12 | We must wait until this thing with Bragad is resolved . |
| 13 | The remedy never fails , and you should know that this earth is of a red colour . ’ |
| 14 | An' you should know that this city 'as got a bigger mouth than any reporter from any newspaper . |
| 15 | The time of utterance in clock or calendar time does not seem relevant , but what certainly is relevant is that you should know whether this instruction still applies . |
| 16 | We must show that this legislation is unworkable , that the unemployed are not to blame . |
| 17 | We must assume that this sentence is meant ironically because it says nothing other than what can be inferred from the preceding sentence : Pemberton registers this completely obvious fact , the location of the illness , from Mrs Moreen 's somewhat overdramatized confidentiality . |
| 18 | The 25 per cent rule Because it is a continuing requirement for a listing that at least 25 per cent of the company 's shares must be in the hands of the public , a listed company must ensure that this percentage will continue in public hands following each market purchase . |
| 19 | 1.62 As we have seen , when the defendant pays into court after making an interim payment , he must ensure that this notice of payment in states that the interim payment has been taken into account ( Ord 29 , r15 ) if he wants to put the plaintiff on risk for the aggregate of the two payments . |
| 20 | Option 7 allows the user to change data disks but the librarian must ensure that this option is chosen before the old data disk is removed from the disk drive . |
| 21 | Study of the religious story shows that it has always been organised religion which has eventually retreated before the inexorable advance of science , and religious leaders should acknowledge that this retreat provides the living proof of the falsity of their position . |
| 22 | Readers should realize that this device does not provide precise ‘ daily ’ timings and that these will drift with ambient temperature . |
| 23 | We must remember that this collection was put together in late 1955 , when most Jewish thinkers ' minds were somewhere between the atrocities of the Holocaust and the fearfully questionable use of the Bomb . |
| 24 | ‘ And you must remember that this aunt of mine is a much respected figure in the community . |
| 25 | When workers experience a rise in the real wage rate they face a decoding problem : they must decide whether this increase is a permanent rise , that is a rise which is likely to endure into the foreseeable future , or a temporary rise , that is a rise which is likely to be reversed in the near future . |
| 26 | Governors must decide whether this subject is to form part of the curriculum for their school . |
| 27 | Those who believe that such insistence would ‘ infringe civil liberties ’ should appreciate that this liberty is valueless if wise judgment is so impaired by lack of insight that sufferers from the underlying illness can use this liberty only to their detriment . |
| 28 | Canadian and US readers should note that this event takes place on 15 June at the Novotel Hotel , 3 Park Home Ave. , North York , Ontario . |
| 29 | Again we should note that this increase in conceptual precision can be achieved , and is achieved in other languages , without recourse to grammatical devices of this kind . |
| 30 | We should note that this fixing of the deictic centre is particularly appropriate to what Lyons ( 1977 : 637 ) calls |