Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interview is basically a form of human interaction and may range from the most informal chat to the most carefully pre-coded and carefully systematized set of questions and answers laid out on an interview schedule . |
| 2 | These privileges may range from the relatively inconspicuous one of being treated differently for insurance purposes to the ultimate extreme of contracting a ‘ marriage with a member of the opposite sex ’ — opposite , that is , to the adopted one . |
| 3 | The slightly lower figure may relate to the more discursive nature of the subject . |
| 4 | The slightly lower figure may relate to the more discursive nature of the subject . |
| 5 | The reason for this is not clear but it may relate to the more recent stress associated with handling and anaesthesia for irradiation . |
| 6 | Alternatively we may think of the more modern figure of a man whose wealth lies in his investments in stocks and shares . |
| 7 | Other writers have complained , particularly in discrimination cases , that conciliation officers are too willing to encourage settlement at any price and fail to provide the support an unrepresented applicant may need against the relatively advantaged position of the employer ( Gregory , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | But , for the moment , we should think of the ideally rational agent as a limiting case or abstraction from homo sapiens in social life . |
| 9 | I should yawn my head off in a palace , and I should laugh during the most solemn ceremonies , and I should certainly beat my Ministers . |
| 10 | Despite an earlier suggestion from Jacques Delors , president of the European Commission , that the summit should focus on the originally scheduled topics of aid to the Soviet Union and the Gulf crisis , all the member countries except the UK used the meeting to state their agreement that Stage 2 of economic and monetary union ( EMU — see p. 36598 for three-stage Delors plan for EMU ) should start on Jan. 1 , 1994 , and established an effective negotiating brief for the intergovernmental conferences on political , economic and monetary union due to begin on Dec. 14 . |
| 11 | I believe that the polytechnics and other public service institutions should leave to the universities the essential functions of pursuing and transmitting specialist knowledge through research and scholarship and that , drawing on this knowledge should concentrate on the no less difficult and important task of meeting this wider demand from potential learners from 18 to 80 . |
| 12 | This is a passage that should appeal to the more adventurous . |
| 13 | We must move the debate about animals from how much harm we should inflict to the more fundamental issue of how much good we should do . |
| 14 | This should ensure at the very least that video taping is efficiently done using equipment which produces a clear picture and clear sound ; a requirement stressed by Douglas Brown J in the Rochdale case cited above . |
| 15 | We should look behind the artificially magnified scope of the devil to discover he is not so deserved of our admiration as once we supposed . |
| 16 | But he or his successor will have to wait a little longer for the revenue benefits which should flow from the more buoyant climate for project investment he has tried to create . |
| 17 | The British should adjust to the newly emerging regional political forces and interest groups . |
| 18 | The local authority ( now the social services departments ) , must decide on the most appropriate form of care . |
| 19 | A proper account of referential communication must grapple with the intrinsically reciprocal nature of conversation , not merely to satisfy the objections of sociolinguists but also to discover if a deeper analysis of discourse clarifies the procedures by which children use and make sense of verbal information . |
| 20 | Holders of such data must adhere to the very reasonable legal , moral and ethical principles laid down by the Act and the data must be held securely and confidentially . |
| 21 | Because accessibility and mobility around the organisation are essential , ‘ you should go for the most generalist person you can get ’ , he said . |
| 22 | He must go to the most expensive dentist on the face of the earth . |
| 23 | One question from his rostrum , must rank as the most salient of the session . |
| 24 | The scenery along its forty mile length is so superb , so varied , that it must rank among the most breathtaking in Italy . |
| 25 | DARLINGTON Music Society has had some superb and famous musicians and ensembles play at their concerts over the years , yet the young Grieg Trio from Norway must rank among the very best . |
| 26 | This clerk is amorously alive and even experienced : — " " deerne love " " is as double in meaning here as it is at the beginning of Dame Sirith , and the same must hold for the semantically similar " " privee " " ; slyness is very much more the quality of a fabliau lover ( cf. |
| 27 | Not that this should put off the more cautious or less experienced , because although the Mournes are no place to be when the mist is thick and low , the famous Mourne Wall is never far away and provides an excellent point of reference . |
| 28 | It is recommended that a consultancy from local specialists in Edinburgh University Geography Department should advise on the most appropriate system to meet our needs . |
| 29 | Mountbatten 's personal view was that the new nationalist movements should be appeased rather than suppressed and that the old colonial powers should settle for the best deal that they could get , pledging independence in the near future and thus , he hoped , preserving the greater part of their economic advantages . |
| 30 | Bernard , acutely aware of the volatility of the fashion market , was convinced the company must diversify into the more stable home furnishing sector as soon as possible . |