Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may need hosing at high pressure to get rid of any surface slime . |
| 2 | A plan may be designed as a five-year plan and may need changing after one year . |
| 3 | Even then you may consider relying on outside designers to create the masters while your operators simply fill in the gaps . |
| 4 | Your school should consider participating in Compact for three reasons : First , Compact improves the employment prospects of those young people who achieve Compact goals . |
| 5 | As for payment times , we can not disagree : they are unpredictable , and only those institutions willing to sustain major expenses , after the contract is signed and until the funds are finally transferred , should consider working with these programmes . |
| 6 | This must include spending by private individuals and by the state , the latter providing for ‘ collective consumption ’ of health and welfare services . |
| 7 | ‘ You must enjoy working in such opulence . ’ |
| 8 | And the triple-A rated EBRD 's charter means it must invest according to conventional banking criteria . |
| 9 | We should keep thinking about this … the politics of the situation can hardly be ignored as the personal is the political , especially for women in Scotland . |
| 10 | INTRUSION INTO GRIEF Newspapers and journalists serving them should avoid intruding into personal grief except where this is justified in the public interest . |
| 11 | The purchaser should avoid asking for superfluous information . |
| 12 | He should stop trying to misrepresent policies . |
| 13 | Give the board a good jolt and the l.e.d. should stop flashing for another minute . |
| 14 | We must stop writing to each other , Donald . |
| 15 | We must stop talking about that . |
| 16 | This means one must avoid calling from another room , talking with your face in shadow , walking away before you have finished the sentence or calling something over your shoulder as you go out of the door . |
| 17 | The bookseller expressed no surprise that Mr Mitterrand , a client of 40 years ' standing , should go browsing on such a crucial day . |
| 18 | ‘ I hope you 'll enjoy reading about this in tomorrow 's papers . ’ |
| 19 | No doubt with a passenger in the back the trim would be sufficient , but the sink rate might need watching at that speed . |
| 20 | And you 'll keep thinking of extra little bits he ah there 's another bit can go in there . |
| 21 | We have already closed sites which have become yesterday 's plants serving yesterday 's needs and we 'll keep looking for other areas of adjustment . |
| 22 | The leader of the Bosnian Serbs has given an assurance to the United Nations that they 'll stop firing on non-military targets in Sarajevo . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think I 'll go canoeing after all , ’ she said stiffly . |
| 24 | You might go hoping for some insight into the goat-hair experiences of Professor Peters or Evans-Pritchard , but , after the initial polite questions , you are asked if you have heard the news from Iran . |
| 25 | well you already agree with me that a flat roof might require replacing in seven |
| 26 | Erm the other thing we , we do is what I would call servicing community groups supported by the Council and I 'll put servicing in inverted comma 's , comma 's here . |
| 27 | No matter about the slump in the property market , nor that there does n't seem to be any money about : they 'll come running for these . |
| 28 | ‘ After that I suppose I 'll start training for another marathon , but I 've never been good at looking to the future . |
| 29 | I 'll start I 'll start paying from this week anyway . |
| 30 | While the market might continue softening for psychological and cyclical reasons , its woes would probably not be compounded by fraud-tainted defaults . |