Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than let their cottages become occupied by potential sitting tenants , some farmers may prefer to let them to anyone but their own employees . |
| 2 | Many people when they have something to discuss may prefer to take it outside their family group to an old friend or a trusted adviser . |
| 3 | Sometimes such material is simply tipped-in or stuck down on a blank ; the professional may prefer to inlay it on paper to match the size of the volume , which will often be fairly large . |
| 4 | Tom will want to check for proteinuria and test your reflexes , but even if those things are normal he and Dr Greene may want to pop you in hospital for a while . ’ |
| 5 | You may wish to leave your monthly transfer at the same amount ; or you may want to amend it in the light of an increase in the cost of living or changes in your expenditure plans . |
| 6 | Read the instructions supplied with the card as if there are serial and parallel ports on the card you may need to configure them as LPT2 , COM3 and COM4 if those devices are already installed . |
| 7 | You may need to watch him at first , so that you can clean and dress any grazes or cuts immediately . |
| 8 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 9 | If the graphics controller on your PC is part of the motherboard then you may need to disable it by removing a jumper switch , altering a DIP switch or running the BIOS setup program . |
| 10 | The charity is still in force today , but is used for grants for students and apprentices for books and any equipment they may need to help them in their careers . |
| 11 | As you will appreciate , we will be collecting feedback on any research you carry out within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with the tape , we ought to try to supply it to you as soon as possible . |
| 12 | I should want to use him in a completely different context , of course … |
| 13 | The local enterprise companies in Scotland would want to consider the matter , although I doubt whether at this stage we should want to regard it as the responsibility of the LECs to give individual support or subsidy to people seeking such a qualification . |
| 14 | I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land , wielding an axe against some giant tree . |
| 15 | The reader should resist the temptation to think of the law as a closed set of rules and principles , and should strive to see it as a setting in which the business of politics and government is carried on . |
| 16 | He was surprised that the doctor should seek to draw him into such boldness with one who was of the other sex , and the daughter of a friend . |
| 17 | It is right that in the negotiations , which must remain confidential , they should seek to prevent us from going too far too soon . |
| 18 | He must need to know it for other reasons . |
| 19 | I should like to see you at least twice a week . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ If I have to look at you , ’ Aunt Emily said without rancour , ‘ I should like to see you in a new dress . |
| 21 | but I should like to examine it for a little longer . |
| 22 | I should like to remind you of five background factors that are relevant to the training course we propose . |
| 23 | I should like to thank them for their outstanding contribution to BP , extending over many years . |
| 24 | I should like to present you to my mother and great-aunts . |
| 25 | I should like to inform him of an exercise that is being carried out by Doug Bulmer , the president of the British Association of Colliery Management . |
| 26 | ‘ This young girl you 've engaged , Mrs Markham , ’ she said , laying great emphasis on the word girl , ‘ I should like to get her into my ways or , shall we say , Harry 's ways , before I leave . |
| 27 | When I get them , I should like to send them to you to copy ’ . ) |
| 28 | And how strange it was that , after all these months of resolutely not thinking about her old life in the States , she should begin to remember it with such pleasure ! |
| 29 | Jerry Fodor , who thrives on ‘ propositional attitudes ’ should try to deploy them in rewriting ‘ Tyger , Tyger burning bright . ’ |
| 30 | It is therefore folly to give in to behaviour of this kind , and you should try to prevent it by being aware of the situation when it may arise and not responding as the dog demands . |