Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the d.c. supply may remain on when the receiver is turned off at its own switch ( usually ganged to the Volume control ) is a worry . |
| 2 | It may arise simply because the risk of deterioration of a resource may be unequally shared among affected people , or because the fruits of personal sacrifices will be enjoyed by others , or discounted future benefits do not justify present sacrifices and are distributed unevenly . |
| 3 | These difficulties may arise especially when the program in question turns out to be more useful and successful than the parties originally envisaged . |
| 4 | In this situation , some models will run out of RPM and the blades may slow down and the motor begin to labour . |
| 5 | As we have seen , at least one form of the established economic torts ( intimidation ) may exist even though the defendant uses unlawful means directly against the plaintiff rather than against a third party . |
| 6 | The figure for unauthorised absence may fall again if a satisfactory explanation 's forthcoming . |
| 7 | ( " The war brides among us must labour on till the boys come home " . ) " |
| 8 | There would therefore be ample time for them to deploy their mobile radiation monitoring teams , for the police to tour the area , knocking on doors and warning people living nearby , for the protective potassium iodate pills to be issued and for a decision to be made on whether the public should stay indoors until the cloud had passed — or evacuate to a safer place . |
| 9 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 10 | Mr Ryan said it was hoped to target 12 to 24 month waiting lists and eventually no one should wait longer than a year for treatment . |
| 11 | 1.50 Once the 21 days for acceptance have passed or the trial has started the plaintiff can take the money in court only with the defendant 's consent or by order unless the payment in itself was made or increased after the trial started , when he has two days to accept , but must do so before the judge begins to deliver his judgment ( RSC Ord 22 , r5 ; CCR Ord 11 , r3 ) . |
| 12 | First , s/he must do so if the pupil is to be excluded for an aggregate period of more than five days in any term , or if the pupil 's exclusion will mean that s/he misses an opportunity to take a public examination which s/he was going to take . |
| 13 | After one minute approximately , the lamp should light again and the process repeat indefinitely . |
| 14 | When , however , they borrow them from other disciplines , they must expect either that the chronological fit is bad ( if they insist on matching the style ) or that the stylistic fit is bad ( if they match the chronology ) . |
| 15 | When the regulatory playing field is levelled after 1992 , the mist should clear somewhat and the pattern of derivative trading for the rest of the decade may begin to emerge . |
| 16 | However , there seems to be no reason why it should break down until the gravitational field becomes strong enough that quantum gravitational effects are important . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher should do either as the Mail demands and replace Mr Lawson with a Chancellor of whose policies she can wholeheartedly approve or , as Mr Heseltine urges , lift her veto against the only course which could give credibility to an exchange rate policy . |
| 18 | We must assume also that the number of the 1946 cohort alive on 1 January 1987 is 296 000 so that the total number of the cohort who achieved their 40th birthday was 296 000 + 580 . |
| 19 | The conclusion to be drawn is that whoever decides funding criteria must believe either that the arts are irrelevant , or too low a priority , or that current arts practice is satisfactory ( Arts Education Forum , 1987 ) . |
| 20 | Once institutional and staff development plans have been consulted , the identification of potential secondees should become easier and the objectives of the secondment clearer . |
| 21 | It 's already fast , and should become faster once the debugging code is taken out . |
| 22 | An aria should sound exactly as the word describes , as light and inevitable as the air itself ; but to achieve that ! |
| 23 | We must insist too that the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ is independent of practical advantages and disadvantages . |
| 24 | Additions equally probable anywhere This is both the most usual case and the assumption the designer should work on if no information is available . |
| 25 | The approximations I used to derive the emission from black holes should work well when the black hole has a mass greater than a fraction of a gram . |
| 26 | Then it must work out where the money will come from . |
| 27 | One must remember too that the authors of many of the changes we now see have been Conservative Secretaries of State . |
| 28 | The Governor counters this argument saying we must look ahead if a new-style prison system is to work . |
| 29 | The Governor counters this argument saying we must look ahead if a new-style prison system is to work . |
| 30 | It seems to follow that if one wishes to change corporate goals one must look further than the modification of directors ' duties . |