Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we decide , in the case of the baptism study , that we must carry out fieldwork to collect data which is not to be found in already published sources we must consider how best to utilize what resources we have . |
| 2 | In the 1990s we must do still more to introduce choice and competition on the one hand , and to reward care and commitment on the other . |
| 3 | Non-terrestrial animals , such as fish and birds , must work almost constantly to move , using their muscles to accelerate water or air past their bodies and to overcome drag . |
| 4 | So Louisa must decide how best to employ the unsought opportunity of her confinement with the Rector , and she was entirely unready . |
| 5 | A school must decide how best to review and redefine its aims . |
| 6 | And manager Ian Porterfield must decide how quickly to bring him into the first team , though it will be tough to drop Kevin Hitchcock . |
| 7 | ‘ Forty-four per cent of the appointees are women — a very high figure for such posts — and their success should encourage even more to come forward for future appointments . ’ |
| 8 | Moreover , the drafter should aim not only to define the obligations of the parties , but also the consequences of a failure to perform . |
| 9 | She wanted to cry and she imagined the tears flowing down her cheeks and dripping on to her jersey and how he 'd probably say that she should go somewhere else to cry . |
| 10 | But the borehole must go deep enough to reach the aquifer , even if this means drilling far below the potentiometric surface . |
| 11 | According to Bob Hunt , the ICI Chlor-Chemicals business must aim not only to maintain and enhance its competitive position in traditional high-tonnage products , but also to develop subsidiary businesses through a combination of increasing technical sophistication and aggressive international marketing . |
| 12 | Students should come not merely to know that such and such is the case , or that this procedure works , but should be able to offer their own account of why it is the case or why it works . |
| 13 | Ideally the agent should reduce bleeding sufficiently to allow the patient to undergo surgery without the need for blood transfusion and should obviate the risk of postoperative anaemia . |
| 14 | You should bend over backwards to avoid bitter personal rows and the holding of grudges . |
| 15 | Assessment of how successful an event has been depends largely on feedback , and , if possible , the organisers should get together afterwards to hear comments and take note for future reference . |
| 16 | Having taken notes ( in whichever format ) , you must learn how best to use them . |
| 17 | Unhappily now we are older it has all disappeared , and we must fight again just to retain the few rights we still have , such as state pensions and what is left of the health service . |
| 18 | Each discipline may choose not only to put their own interpretation on the material they incorporate under a heading , but also choose to organize the material in a different way , e.g. classify according to the type of processing , rather than function . |
| 19 | Stavov supports Van Laue argues that the only way Russia might advance fast enough to avoid the disaster of inevitable global conflict was through a ‘ totalitarian planned economy ’ . |
| 20 | Insofar as the ‘ post ’ of postmodernism points to a lack , an emptying of a previous content , an absence of positive connotations to the present , then the term might do quite well to describe the current mood of dissatisfaction in Italian literary culture . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll drop in tomorrow to see how she is . ’ |
| 22 | This could cause the loss of a whole revolution for each member of the chain , because the processing of the link field might take long enough to miss the start of the next record . |
| 23 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 24 | Oh , sure , it 'll take long enough to complete , but another couple of levels — not difficult to program once the initial stage has been coded — would have pushed it into another league entirely . |
| 25 | We 'll lead up gradually to grade five . |
| 26 | We 'll go out somewhere to eat , if you want , or stay in , whatever . |
| 27 | I 'll find somewhere else to stay for the night , ’ he said softly , rocking the tearful Katarina . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , you wo n't win because I 'll find somewhere else to stay . |
| 29 | I 'll pop in tomorrow to say goodbye on my way to the airport . ’ |
| 30 | To make them pure for drinking purposes is , perhaps , impossible ; but it may reasonably be hoped that they may become sufficiently so to delight the eye and to repress the pestiferous and sickening exhalations which at present affect the multitudes of our population compelled to pass their lives on the bank of such rivers . |