Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , when our western doctor 's diagnosis or treatment turns out to be ineffective we may regard him as a useless quack , but we do not also conclude that the entire system of medical science is erroneous . |
| 2 | Academics regard bias as a sin , but others may regard it as a virtue . |
| 3 | I may treat you as a grown-up person , may I not ? |
| 4 | In the north and east the Curled or Lesser Octopus Eledone cirrhosa may treat you with a colourful appearance . |
| 5 | ‘ Let's treat it as a pleasure jaunt . ’ |
| 6 | And it may tempt you into a mid-morning snack of chocolate biscuits or worse . |
| 7 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |
| 8 | United 's Maurice Malpas sustained a groin injury and is doubtful for Scotland 's match against Germany on Wednesday but Duncan Ferguson should make it despite a thigh knock . |
| 9 | You should make it into a film , and I can star , I can be the girl . |
| 10 | You must regard us as a cross to bear . ’ |
| 11 | You should treat it as a straightforward job of work and get on with it . |
| 12 | If a marble statue of the Virgin Mary suddenly waved its hand at us we should treat it as a miracle , because all our experience and knowledge tells us that marble does n't behave like that . |
| 13 | She says she did the Byrd show ‘ because I found her a fascinating part of the underground scene in New York , and I felt somebody should expose her to a bigger market . |
| 14 | Now , if we find Carfax first in the middle , Oxford 's on the crossroads principle , like so many cities , we 've got St Giles down here , erm and Oxford of course a small city , or we should regard it as a very small city . |
| 15 | I must prepare you for a surprise that will not , I hope , upset you too much . |
| 16 | Should this be announced during my absence , as is not unlikely , I would you should know it as a marriage of convenience , no more . |
| 17 | You should present them with a sense of commitment . |
| 18 | When she came back to him he must present her with a positive plan of action . |
| 19 | NEXT time Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Messiaen 's Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum they should do it in a great cathedral . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps we should send her to a tutorial college , ’ said Brian , unexpectedly . |
| 21 | The deceased then asked Mr. Morgan to keep the document and said ‘ if anything happens to me , you should give it to a solicitor after my funeral . ’ |
| 22 | But for this to be achieved , the government must acknowledge it as a problem worth solving . |
| 23 | He stormed : ‘ The FA should suspend him for a couple of years and if they ca n't ban the video then they should fine him every penny he makes out of it . |
| 24 | Ants can be kept in large glass jars filled with soil or in a wormery ( Chapter 6 ) , but to see them best you should keep them in a special kind of housing . |
| 25 | I am very desirous to get all the species of this genus which I can , and am making observations on their flowers and fruit : for Doctor Linnaeus has joined these to his genus of Rhus [ sumach ] , with which all the species of Toxicodendron , which I have yet examined , will by no means agree ; for these are either male and female in distinct plants , or have male flowers in separate parts from the fruit on the same plant , which , according to his own system , must remove them to a great distance from the Rhus . |
| 26 | If you intend to proceed with the appeal on your own , you should contact me for a copy of the relevant parts of the Sheriff Court process . |
| 27 | That should see me for a while . |
| 28 | It is most important that the pupil , especially if he has difficulty with spelling , should see you as a sympathetic helper who wants him to learn , and not as an examiner who only tells him he 's wrong . |
| 29 | In fact , since ants , like other insects , have a variety of these illuminated chemical communicators , each meaning different things , their highways — especially within their nests — must provide them with a variety of ‘ colour-pattern ’ coding and meaningful messages . |
| 30 | If you are weekly tenant your landlord must provide you with a rent book otherwise he/she may be guilty of a criminal offence . |