Example sentences of "man [modal v] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The first time we met I thought she was gorgeous but I did n't ask for her phone number because I imagined every man must do that . |
| 2 | ‘ It means they benefit from institutional fund management as opposed to private client stockbroking where one man must know all the markets , and it 's much more efficient , ’ he stresses . |
| 3 | As I thought about it it seemed extraordinary that any man should endure such behaviour and still wish to marry the object of his desire . |
| 4 | No man should do that unless he 's ashamed of his dealings with it . |
| 5 | It seemed to me extraordinary that this man should have such immense authority in caste-ridden India ; yet no one has questioned his greatness . |
| 6 | He adopted the same line in his lectures on the foetal circulation — this was a subject of little practical importance , but it was one of which a properly educated man should have some appreciation . |
| 7 | Yet even on this issue we must be cautious : marriage was an irrevocable step ; though death almost as often and as rapidly parted married couples in the twelfth century as it does in the twentieth , a prince might well take careful thought before he threw the dice , just as , even then , a prudent man might spend many years looking for the woman of his choice . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ We have been waiting since April for the sentence but another man could do this . |
| 9 | Their organisation ( see Appendix 2 ) was flexible so that any man could do most of the jobs . |
| 10 | Only a man could say such cruel things , ’ and then , belatedly , remembering her manners , which her mama had so often told her she was always forgetting , ‘ But I must thank you for taking me in . |
| 11 | No man could resist such charm , such beauty and good humour . |
| 12 | ‘ What man could resist such an invitation ? ’ |
| 13 | I wish the old man would give some to it . |
| 14 | ‘ Only a selfish man would do that , Mother ! ’ |
| 15 | But Robert could have wished the man would get some false teeth . |
| 16 | In a typical week , the field man will spend much of his time in routine inspection and monitoring by sampling river water , industrial and farm discharges and occasionally groundwater supplies . |
| 17 | Phonemes for the sounds in a particular language are like a sketch of a type of person ; a conventionalised drawing of a man can represent any human being anywhere . |
| 18 | De Man can make both his boldest claims about the nature of language and his most subtle valorisations between methods of reading without himself pronouncing : in the fictional disguise of a narrator who is not always present . |
| 19 | As Gorthie pointed out , ‘ its a post that no honest man can make any profit by , anything near to compense his pains ’ . |
| 20 | No man can do that to another . |
| 21 | And nevertheless an intelligent man can moderate all the things that fate causes , as long as he is clear in his mind ’ . |
| 22 | Not every man can separate these roles . |
| 23 | Well in our society instead , a man can take another wife … ? |
| 24 | A man can teach another man that a red light means " stop " ; a man can teach this to a chimpanzee ; a chimpanzee can not teach this to a man , and one chimpanzee can not teach this to another.4 |
| 25 | A man can teach another man that a red light means " stop " ; a man can teach this to a chimpanzee ; a chimpanzee can not teach this to a man , and one chimpanzee can not teach this to another.4 |
| 26 | Unless a man can put some thematic invention into vers libre , he would perhaps do well to stick to ‘ regular ’ metres , which have certain chances of being musical from their form , and certain other chances of being musical through his failure in fitting the form . |
| 27 | No one man can train all the winnners . |
| 28 | ‘ A nod is as good as a wink to a blind man ’ the saying goes — and so it may be , for the man can see neither . |
| 29 | Men may find some sensitivity loss during intercourse . |
| 30 | Keith Pringle ( ‘ Gender politics ' 4 March ) asserts that because of male socialisation and the fact that 77 per cent of abusers are thought to be male , all men may have some potential to commit sexual abuse . |