Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This we may express , indeed , in a few words , but it should influence us throughout all our treatment of horses ; for a horse will more readily take the bit , if , when he has taken it , something pleasant results to himself ; and he will leap across ditches , and jump over obstacles , and comply with our wishes in all other respects , if he looks forward , when he has done what is required of him , to some indulgence . |
| 32 | Nevertheless , in recent years we have been moving , albeit slowly and hesitantly , towards the view that the primary school should regard itself as one element in a united national service to children . |
| 33 | Immediately the caveman must prepare himself for two possibilities . |
| 34 | ‘ You must prepare yourself for bad news , ’ she told him . |
| 35 | If it is directed to his particular case , the Home Secretary should disregard it at this stage unless it was evidence at the trial ; if directed to penal policy in general , it is merely a small part of his information as to public opinion . |
| 36 | I should think something like that really . |
| 37 | If that is so , they must explain something about that uncertainty to the child , and include the fact that others have a positive belief in life after death . |
| 38 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 39 | She was so ashamed of not remembering what had happened that she felt she must compensate him in some way , so she kissed his mouth and stroked his cheek . |
| 40 | I do n't know I mean er maybe these are minute but whether you should explore them at that moment in time I mean only experience will tell . |
| 41 | Mr Edwards , who examined Mrs Bates during her early pregnancy but was not on duty when she was admitted , said some deceleration in foetal heartbeat was not unusual , but it should alert one to possible dangers . |
| 42 | The school should also set up regular times for reviewing progress and should alert you to any difficulties your child may be experiencing . |
| 43 | Somehow or other that piece of parchment and the seed cake lie at the very heart of the murder and they must know something about both . |
| 44 | ‘ Edwin must know nothing of this . |
| 45 | Consider the rule that , when being with one person and meeting another , one should introduce them to each other . |
| 46 | I do n't know why I should burden you with this and make an exhibition of myself in front of eveN– one . ’ |
| 47 | The Wolfenden Committee , in distinguishing between public and private behaviour , also drew a distinction between ‘ crime ’ and ‘ sin ’ , and concluded that ‘ as a general proposition it will be universally accepted that the law is not concerned with private morals or ethical sanctions ’ , and further , ‘ it is not the duty of the law to concern itself with immorality as such … it should confine itself to those activities which offend against public order and decency and expose the ordinary citizen to what is offensive or injurious ’ . |
| 48 | Perhaps you should include one for each section every issue , so you can focus on what 's wrong with it . |
| 49 | For those who are n't totally sort of in control of the plot and I probably should include myself as one of them , what 's happening in this scene I want you to act out . |
| 50 | It struck me as extraordinary that the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) should attack us on that point . |
| 51 | If it is readily intelligible so much the better ; but it is far more important that it should yield its meaning accurately than that it should yield it on first reading , and the Legal draftsman can not afford to give much attention , if any , to euphony or literary elegance … . |
| 52 | If it is readily intelligible , so much the better ; but it is far more important that it should yield its meaning accurately than that it should yield it on first reading , and legal draftsmen can not afford to give much attention , if any , to euphony or literary elegance . |
| 53 | In order to believe in the Devil we must rid ourselves of unhelpful images of him ( though we do not need to wax philosophical about him as I did for the doubting lady ! ) . |
| 54 | Ruskin ( who will be discussed in a later chapter ) also wrote his autobiography in old age , and without our knowledge of his life from other sources we should have a distorted picture of his childhood , and should know nothing at all about his marriage . |
| 55 | David and Angela came along to see it and David said , ‘ I must introduce you to this guy Tony DeFries who is going to be my manager , and I think you should meet him too . ’ |
| 56 | The shorter prologue of Lex Salica states that With God 's help it pleased the Franks and their nobility and they agreed that they ought to prohibit all escalations of quarrels for the preservation of enthusiasm for peace among themselves ; and because they excelled other neighbouring peoples by force of arms , so they should excel them in legal authority , with the result that criminal cases might be concluded in a manner appropriate to the type of complaint . |
| 57 | But he is insisting , in black and white terms , that the divine sonship , mediated by the Spirit , must show itself in changed behaviour . |
| 58 | Those who have experienced deliverance by the hand of God , and who live under his sovereignty , must show it by distinctive behaviour . |
| 59 | ‘ We must do something about those birds , ’ said Paul . |
| 60 | ‘ We must do something about this exhibition , ’ Jay said , with the very English concentration of one commenting on the vagaries of the weather . |