Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing you must do is to assign any system-wide logical names required by the process , eg. pseudo-devices used for the process or storage directories , and all the logicals for all the storage directories known to the process . |
| 2 | One of Town 's resolutions must have been to make more of their chances . |
| 3 | What I thought we might do is to explore this phenomenon a little further , just the two of us together , but making sure we take things very carefully all the time . ’ |
| 4 | You know one of the things that we could do is to do another directory . |
| 5 | All that the King could do was to provide some sort of legal foundation of government for Englishmen going to unsettled and thinly populated areas , which he did by linking the legitimacy of their governments to the legitimacy of his government . |
| 6 | The worst she could do was to bring that Tuscan adventurer into the family , since when none of us has had a moment 's peace . |
| 7 | One direction in which it may move is to replace some existing degree courses by two-year diplomas , though if this comes about it is not likely to be before the late 1980s . |
| 8 | This clearly might have been proceeded against as an affray , and counsel 's argument before the Court of Appeal appears to have been that once violence had actually been used , the proper course would have been to charge that offence . |
| 9 | This was a one-off film for Chaplin and he was well aware that to have sustained that role and that theme would have been to sacrifice much of his great following and to have become an artist with a more sectional support . |
| 10 | I had a fleeting thought of what fun it would have been to do this trip with Rosemary . |
| 11 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 12 | To have insisted would have been to demand more details about Montaine , and more explanations about their love , than I was entitled to . |
| 13 | Better practice would have been to discharge such a patient on a Monday and monitor her progress daily , to forestall a weekend crisis . |
| 14 | You may have already decided what sort of walking boots to buy , but the shop assistant will , with barely disguised contempt , correct you , telling you how foolish you would have been to buy such footwear , how lucky it was you came here first , and convincing you that for only an extra £65 you can have the boot you really need . |
| 15 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 16 | What it will do is to identify those kinds of misspelling that most pupils are likely to make : appropriate teaching at this stage helps to avoid remedial teaching later . |
| 17 | Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia . |
| 18 | I am sorry I ca n't be any more help with that at this stage what I can do is to take that question away and circulate the information after I 've done some sums . |
| 19 | It is something I , I think inherent in the nature of philosophical questions , that probably the very best a philosopher can do is to test some way of seeking to formulate the nature of human knowledge and the relation of the thinking man to the world , erm test some way in which one seeks to render that explicit and self-conscious , to destruction . |
| 20 | The worst thing that governments can do is to retard this admittedly painful process with subsidies to obsolete industries , or protectionist barriers . |
| 21 | and what you can do is to keep that one for best |
| 22 | The final part of the procedure before analysis can begin is to see these categories of deixis within a particular discourse , operating at a point along a cline of activity . |