Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |
| 2 | Elements of the abductive sense may be instinctive , and the result of selection , others the product of training : selection may explain both the innate quality space and the flexibility which , we know , make possible the training which explains our current ( reliable ) sense of plausibility ( Quine 1969c ) . |
| 3 | We ought to include also the northern half of Buckinghamshire in this belt of planned country , for though parliamentary enclosure affected only one acre in three in the county as a whole it was largely concentrated in the plain to the north of the Chilterns . |
| 4 | There may exist either a formal , highly structured process of search or a loosely structured ‘ think-tank ’ approach . |
| 5 | Although PAS is a commercial business , Bill and Kath both have a soft spot for museums and collectors alike , and in the past have supplied , at reasonable prices , parts to large museums like the Imperial War Museum at Duxford , and to ‘ one man collections ’ who may want just a small item to complete a cockpit panel etc . |
| 6 | His intention is to experience an ‘ as if ’ context — in a game two friends may agree to behave as if they are opponents ; in drama two friends may make exactly the same agreement . |
| 7 | It is not possible to describe a suitable treatment for every type of window and there is no such thing as a standard window , since two identical windows located in a different position on a wall may need quite a different treatment . |
| 8 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
| 9 | His description of the recovery of a Hunter over a Swiss airshow served as another graphic reminder that a performance should emphasize the aircraft 's character but should utilize only the established skills of the pilot — and should never require his super-human efforts to get out of a situation . |
| 10 | I ask whether with the above words he has entrusted to Pamphilus that after his death he should make over a hundred to the sons of the deceased . |
| 11 | He replied that on the facts as stated it did not appear , at least so far as the testator 's words were concerned , that it was entrusted to Pamphilus that he should make over a hundred . |
| 12 | You must make about a hundred times more than you need . |
| 13 | Yeah , so I should think quite a few . |
| 14 | should think so an all |
| 15 | Second , even if projects go wrong , the government can spread the burden very thinly across the population : 2 per cent on everybody 's income tax rate for a year should cover even the biggest disaster . |
| 16 | Instead of blaming one partner we should drum home the essential message that parents have equal responsibilities . |
| 17 | This should need only a few turns |
| 18 | ‘ I must do just a few more menial things before I go to bed ’ or , more oddly , ‘ I was nearly run over on my menial way this morning . ’ |
| 19 | Bridgend raised their game against Wales ; now Wales must do precisely the same against New Zealand . |
| 20 | The original owner 's invoice should show either the current cost of the goods if supplied to the repairer for nothing , or if a charge is made the amount to be paid . |
| 21 | These examples should bring home the great difference that there is for Moore between intrinsic good and bad and anything of the nature of pleasure or pain . |
| 22 | For most chemical reactions the rate of reaction is much slower than the collision frequency so you must assume only a small fraction of collisions result in a reaction . |
| 23 | Despite this , Potidaia paid tribute to Athens , who in 433/2 demanded that Potidaia should send home the Corinthian magistrates and pull down part of her walls . |
| 24 | Anyone who missed it should contact either the Hot Press Back Issues Department or Sharon Prior at Tennents Ireland . |
| 25 | So court dominates St Aldate 's throughout the war , and I think therefore we should spend just a little time looking at the people involved , erm but not too much . |
| 26 | The results should provide both a critical guide to the existing literature and a coherent framework within which to interpret it . |
| 27 | The return of Philip Gray , who missed that game , should provide extra the extra firepower needed for a two or three goal victory . |
| 28 | The reference interview should ascertain both a clear subject profile and also other characteristics of the required documents or information , such as any constraints on date , language , source or level . |
| 29 | Section 12(3) applies to a contract where it appears from the contract or is to be inferred from the circumstances that the parties intended that the seller should transfer only a limited title ( whether it be the limited title of the seller himself or of some third person from whom the seller would obtain it ) . |
| 30 | In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books . |