Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If you can afford private treatment , or you have medical insurance cover to pay for it , you may prefer to take on a full treatment programme with the specialist physiotherapist . |
| 2 | Your doctor may want to carry out an MSU ( mid-stream urine ) test , to find out whether bacteria are present in your bladder , and if so , which kind . |
| 3 | Your doctor may want to carry out an internal examination to check the size and position of your womb , which will help indicate how far along you are , or this may be done at your hospital appointment . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a problem we still have to solve , ’ said a spokesman : it may want to look up the latest crop of hopefuls such as Covia Technologies Inc , Locus Computing Corp , and NobleNet Inc which have recently begun to offer just such solutions . |
| 5 | At times , you may need to fill in an official form . |
| 6 | You may need to carry out the above exercises a few times before you get any results . |
| 7 | You may have to commit yourself to buying a new home before you have sold your existing one , in which case you may need to take out a bridging loan to tide you over until you sell . |
| 8 | Occasionally , you may need to top up the water and to water the compost to keep it just damp . |
| 9 | Instinctively they may opt to carry out the minimum of conversation and close the interview as soon as they have supplied the list of solicitors . |
| 10 | But I find it totally incomprehensible that someone who has held the office of Chancellor with high standing for over six years should want to resign over a personality with such suddenness and haste . ’ |
| 11 | The Democratic Platform at a conference on March 18-19 had begun discussing whether it should prepare to set up a new political party immediately after the July congress , if its policies were not adopted . |
| 12 | I can therefore understand why at that awful moment he should seek to summon up a talisman of words , a secret defence against abomination , or perhaps even an excuse in the form of some kind of precedent that a word expresses and so takes the edge of uniqueness off the contemplated evil . |
| 13 | Very very erm suggestive metaphor although I do n't know exactly what it 's extraordinary one , erm erm erm , the , perhaps we should begin to step back a second here , to think about how we normally individuate things . |
| 14 | There was a quixotic suggestion that elected representatives north and south should meet to set up an alternative national parliament which would proceed to ‘ legislate ’ for the whole country . |
| 15 | Then I suggested that , when she felt ready to do so , she should try to carry out the exercise in reality rather than simply in her imagination . |
| 16 | Perhaps I should try to pick up a little extra at Macready 's tables . |
| 17 | But I think we should try to find out the reason for your attitude . |
| 18 | You should try to build up a network of people you trust , based on your professional support team who know the patient 's case in detail . |
| 19 | As a general point , you should try to tie down the enemy 's best unit while you use your core troops to see off his second best troops . |
| 20 | Fertility conditions play a part then , and as hard pruning provokes the greater growth response , we should judge to ease back a little on poor , dry soils compared with more fertile conditions . |
| 21 | An obvious extension of this is that they should attempt to break down the isolation between practitioners in different countries . |
| 22 | They must attempt to innovate over a very broad front using people and structures which are still firmly in place from the ancien régime . |
| 23 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 24 | The remedial programme should aim to make up the deficit in primary and community health services in the capital , to bring them into line with national standards . |
| 25 | This programme should help to slow down the yearly fall in production . |
| 26 | The Russian side also indicated that Russia would not demand that Estonia should help to pay off the former USSR 's foreign debt . |
| 27 | We must help to clear up the confusion , dismantle — where appropriate — the weapons and assist in the disposal of the fissile material . |
| 28 | The latter measures may be carried out by a company representative or the organisation may choose to bring in an outside specialist to run this part of the communications exercise . |
| 29 | There are some who would question his recording of details on site suggesting that in his eagerness to move on to the next find he may neglect to tidy up the details left behind . |
| 30 | They might prefer to work out a general letter and simply insert the details such as where they saw the job advertised and the name given to the vacancy advertised . |