Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders . |
| 2 | People who carry weapons into bank premises and threaten to use them must receive a severe sentence . ’ |
| 3 | If there is only one adult resident , a discount of 25 per cent can be claimed ( s79 ) ; it is important therefore that if husband and wife cease to live together each of them should notify the local authority that separation has taken place so as to end joint liability and for the remaining resident spouse to claim the discount ( if applicable ) . |
| 4 | France has shown some sympathy ; an independent nuclear power , it has never accepted the notion that Russians and Americans between them should run the nuclear affairs of the world , let alone the post-Soviet world . |
| 5 | Er , the the the er er the fax in the first instance has been sent by a back bench member of this house who is not a minister , but I may tell the honourable gentleman that I get all sorts of things from mail shots inviting me to all er manner of functions , all of which find their way into the waste paper basket . |
| 6 | It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company . |
| 7 | I may expect no mass media to crusade , no millions of strangers to become suddenly familiar with my name and anxious for my cause . |
| 8 | If I may remind the right hon. Gentleman , I did not invent that figure . |
| 9 | I may spot the unnatural symmetry which a real stick would not have . |
| 10 | I may inform the right hon. and learned Gentleman that a single man on average earnings in 1978-79 was paying 42 per cent . |
| 11 | Anyway , who knows , I may get the odd half-hour just to pop down the gangway and explore those fascinating little shops down there . ’ |
| 12 | Later that year Thein Pe told Force 136 that there were many ‘ sympathisers ’ and even some activists ; he added ‘ Thakin Nu is what I may call an active sympathiser . |
| 13 | If I live , I may have a crooked back like my father , but I 'll probably die . ’ |
| 14 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I think I may have a wrong number , ’ it said . |
| 16 | I must advise the hon. Gentleman , however , that the phrase in Big Farm Weekly , ’ Goodbye to the BSE scourge ’ was not mine , but that of the chief veterinary officer . |
| 17 | I must tell the hon. Gentleman that , as a new Member of Parliament , he should be more concerned with the possibility of improving the delivery of health care to his constituents . |
| 18 | ‘ An' I must set a good table for the funeral . ’ |
| 19 | He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima : |
| 20 | To escape from Heathcliff I must go a long way away . |
| 21 | I see that I must do a little bargaining on my own behalf . |
| 22 | I made Mrs Seale come with me in a cab from the theatre , saying I must visit a sick friend . |
| 23 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
| 24 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
| 25 | but I must make a historical excursion here to establish the background to this absolutely fundamental question . |
| 26 | Well then tomorrow I must make a little list , see cos I want to finish that baby 's jumper |
| 27 | But to answer it , I must make a considerable digression , to say something about how we get such beliefs by observation . |
| 28 | I think I must make the ordinary orders to costs , well what I will do is erm doctor must I think pay the costs of the appeal against the order of master erm both here and below on the other hand the defendant seems to be able to bear the costs of the appeal against the September order , that 's the order , that 's the order of , is that Mr ? , er sorry when I say the doc doctor bears the costs must er in fact he must , right , it is the August , that 's the August decision both , both before erm the taxing officer and on this appeal and er the , I dismiss the defendants appeal against the September board with costs |
| 29 | I must start a new life among strangers . ’ |
| 30 | To do so I must sketch the bare outlines of the opposing views on the conceptual issues , to see which one harmonises more with evolutionary conjectures about language . |