Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For example , the purchaser may object to the practices used by the vendor in accounting for work in progress and obsolete stock . |
| 32 | I plugged into a Zoom and everyone said , ‘ It 's just a reference guitar so let's focus on the drums . ’ |
| 33 | There was a good number present and the main business of the day required the club to decide on the donations they should make to the women 's section and other charities . |
| 34 | He must build between the moments a place of images and light . |
| 35 | A large enough space on the floor must be found , or the track must wind between the legs of tables and chairs . |
| 36 | In the psychic economy of the universe a compensation must exist for the reverses Jaq had suffered at the hands of the Harlequin man . |
| 37 | One person must remain at the nets all the time to deal with the rabbits as they become entangled . |
| 38 | The terrorist might say that he gave sufficient warning of the bomb for the area to be cleared , and that it was unforeseeable that a deaf person should remain on the premises and be killed in the explosion , which was intended only to cause damage . |
| 39 | Changes must be made to the attack for the first Test at Old Trafford next month but pacemen Andy Caddick , Paul Jarvis and Chris Lewis now have just one more chance to prove they should remain for the Ashes opener . |
| 40 | To improve standards it should remain within the arts and social studies committee ’ . |
| 41 | For that reason , it should remain in the hands of local government . |
| 42 | In an early paper for the Council he adumbrated what he was later to name ‘ partnership in validation ’ : final authority should remain in the hands of the Council , but academic boards in ‘ experienced institutions ’ could be authorized ‘ to reach decisions in defined areas ’ , decisions to be reported to the Council and normally accepted by it as ‘ acts of the Council ’ . |
| 43 | Roth also explains that he was ‘ educated to believe that the independent reality of the fiction is all there is of importance and that writers should remain in the shadows ’ . |
| 44 | Sir , I must comment on the letters from Julian Clayton and Eileen Smith ( The Bookseller , ) 15th January . |
| 45 | Above all , a new review should build on the improvements we made but correct the mistake of 1985 and consider social security and tax together . |
| 46 | So usually one or other of the parent birds must stay with the eggs for most of the time . |
| 47 | The form of communication structure in a company must relate to the problems and activities of that company . |
| 48 | Because the council is spending public money , it argues ‘ reasonable ’ must relate to the standards society would expect it to uphold , taking account of the cost , the various options and degree of disability . |
| 49 | It is obvious that the facts found must relate to the issues before the court and the statutory criteria for making a secure accommodation order . |
| 50 | The agenda of meetings should arise from the interests and concerns of the group . |
| 51 | The constitution , he said , should arise from the negotiations within a bicameral elected body — the lower house elected by proportional representation and the upper house elected in such a way as to ensure " special representation " for minorities and regions . |
| 52 | The situations should relate to the students ' needs and the language should be natural , useful and interesting . |
| 53 | In terms of principle , the rule requires justification because it departs from the principle of correspondence ( see Chapter 5.2(a) ) , namely that the fault element in a crime should relate to the consequences prohibited by that crime . |
| 54 | That re , that should relate to the allowances you had before . |
| 55 | ( iv ) Discussion should focus on the effects , in context , of different types of vocabulary , eg archaic , literary , figurative , emotive , dialectal , colloquial , scientific etc. ; of grammatical features such as structural repetition , eg in scripted speeches , advertisements , literary prose , poems etc ; of lexical and grammatical ambiguity ; of the use of grammatical deviance for special effect , eg in advertisements , slogans , poems etc . |
| 56 | The pragmatists thus argue that all knowledge is hypothetical and fallible ; that the meaning of concepts must be rooted in their social context ; that we should focus on the consequences rather than the origins of knowledge ; that all distinctions and boundaries to inquiry are relative to the stage of development of the inquiry ; and that the standards or norms of inquiry are developed as part of the process of inquiry . |
| 57 | It was obvious and natural that as the last report had dealt mostly with the more able pupils so its successor should focus upon the needs of the pupils of average and below-average ability — that 50 per cent of all pupils , in other words , who gave the Report its title , Half Our future . |
| 58 | We should strip off the fashions of speech ; but keep the substance , of course . ’ |
| 59 | The monthly Civil Engineer and Architects Journal , in its March edition , said that Hall was ‘ indulging the weakness of feeling annoyed that the scheme on which he had so greatly and justly plumed himself should fall into the hands of his successor ’ . |
| 60 | And running under a certain island which is called Clauda , we had much work to come by the boat : which when they had taken up , they used helps , undergirding the ship ; and , fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands , struck sail , and so were driven . ’ |