Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also got on well with the justices of the Jews and may for a brief period have enjoyed some sort of official position in the Exchequer of the Jews . |
| 2 | If it fails , he may as a last resort fling his band of ‘ patriotic ’ assassins into general action . |
| 3 | This criticism arises from the fact that , search where you may through the White Papers , nowhere will you find detailed information about what public service workers have been paid , how their pay has changed or what they will be paid in the future . |
| 4 | However , now that it is necessary to identify the functions the judges are performing when they sit as visitors in cases which are concerned with the question whether people are fit and proper persons to become or remain barristers , we must for the first time examine their function in that context alone . |
| 5 | Do not be afraid to ask questions , particularly , perhaps , questions as to why things are done in the way they are — though you should for a long time be very restrained in any suggestions you make for improvement . |
| 6 | ‘ My uncles and must of the other Khans take such pains when they speak to me , and yet you go to no trouble at all . |
| 7 | The popular poet 's imagination , skill and learning could concoct , at that instant , a sustained story with a cast of hundreds that linked all those wars , love affairs , catastrophes , comedies and come-what-may into a coherent whole . |
| 8 | The success of this greatly appreciated service must in a great measure be due to the pleasant and most helpful personality of the librarian . |
| 9 | First , from ( 3 ) we have unc and since only these diagonal elements have changed , it follows that unc as it must in a similar transformation . |
| 10 | The executor or administrator , whose duties in many ways resemble those of a trustee , must in the first instance discharge the funeral expenses , the cost ( including the payment of inheritance tax ) of obtaining probate of the will or ‘ letters of administration ’ , and the debts of the deceased . |
| 11 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 12 | As a result of Section 89 of the Companies Act 1985 , if the Directors wish to allot the unissued shares for cash ( other than pursuant to an employee share scheme ) , they must in the first instance offer them to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings . |
| 13 | Liabilities must in the first instance be met from the partnership property . |
| 14 | Study of the examples will show that in order to simulate the behaviour of a system one must in the first instance understand it . |
| 15 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 16 | It must in the first place be said that there was probably nothing particularly exceptional about Jesus ' behaviour and attitudes towards women . |
| 17 | Any restriction on the media , to be valid , must in the first place be justified by a " pressing social need , " and then , even if the social need is pressing , the restriction must be reasonably proportionate to the aim of responding to that need . |
| 18 | Whether Innocent could have achieved his ends earlier or by better means must in the final analysis be a matter of opinion . |
| 19 | Where , as will normally be the case , the breach is such as must in the ordinary course of business inflict damage on the plaintiff , he may succeed without proof of any particular damage . |
| 20 | erm the rest of arbitrary proposals maybe considered small comparison in , in financial terms at least but er differ a little if any in , in educational value , that 's two hundred thousand to boost the fourteen and nineteen strategy , er I think there must in the present climate in which we have to regard the vocational content of education as well as the academic . |
| 21 | All this must in the long term benefit both clients and contractors alike . ’ |
| 22 | Here the problem rests on the fact that for orthodox Marxism there can be only one ‘ other ’ , that of the working class , into which all other oppressed groups , so-called ‘ minorities ’ , must in the last instance be subsumed . |
| 23 | All agencies of mass culture , i.e. the press , the radio , the television and the cinema , stand in this dialectical relation to the individual and must in the last resort concern themselves with value judgements . |
| 24 | Orwell claimed the novel was an essentially protestant art form ; increasingly it appears to me that it must in the broadest sense be a Christian-humanist endeavour . |
| 25 | The energetic pursuit of these two policies should in the long run ensure a substantial improvement in the employment situation . |
| 26 | The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , reiterated the familiar British line that while the government was ‘ already considering the scope of agricultural restrictions , ’ it ‘ believes that wherever possible , they should in the first event be on a voluntary basis , with compulsory powers being retained as a fall-back . ’ |
| 27 | It was ‘ wholly appropriate ’ that information in these circumstances should in the first instance be given in the absence of the public . |
| 28 | Contact with the Trade Finance manager should in the first instance be made through your account holding Branch Manager . |
| 29 | Under the Data Protection Act you are entitled , subject to certain limitations , to know what data about yourself is held on computer and , if you wish to exercise this right , you should in the first instance approach the Personnel Department . |
| 30 | If in a potentially life threatening situation or one in which irreparable damage to the patient 's health is to be anticipated , doctors or hospital authorities are faced with a refusal by an adult patient to accept essential treatment and they have real doubts as to the validity of that refusal , they should in the public interest , not to mention that of their patient , at once seek a declaration from the courts as to whether the proposed treatment would or would not be lawful . |