Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should research be concentrated on topics from which an immediate use is seen , or is it possible for those who provide the funds , to take a longer view . |
| 2 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 3 | A dividend is usually paid as a percentage of the consolidated profits of Newco , but a number of points require consideration in determining how " profit " should be interpreted : ( i ) should the dividend be based on pre- or post-tax profits ( ii ) should the calculation of profit take into account any transfer or proposed transfer to reserves or to general provisions ? ( iii ) should profit include pre- or post-extraordinary items ? ( iv ) how should goodwill be treated ? ( v ) should directors ' emoluments in excess of an amount agreed with the investors be added back ? ( vi ) should profit be defined before payment or the provision for payment of dividends ? |
| 4 | Clearly an index must permit access to a document by its central theme , but to what extent should access be provided to secondary or subsidiary topics considered within a document ? |
| 5 | The UK took the view that it should have been based on Article 100 of the Treaty of Rome ( general harmonisation of national laws ) , which requires unanimity ( in which case the adverse vote of the UK could have prevented the Directive being adopted ) . |
| 6 | A party receiving a payment which should have been made into court shall forthwith notify the proper officer in writing and pay the money received into court ( Ord 11 , r 1A ) . |
| 7 | ‘ By rights they should have been made on Stir-up Sunday , only I was too busy . |
| 8 | Underneath this she wore black cotton trousers — ideally these should have been made of silk , but she felt sure no one would notice . |
| 9 | ‘ Today 's statement should have been made by Michael Heseltine , not a law officer . |
| 10 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 11 | It was held that there was a clear infringement of the Compaq trade mark , although it was accepted that it was arguable whether it should have been accepted for registration because of its phonetic similarity with " Compact " , an everyday word . |
| 12 | However such power and influence should have been balanced by checks built in to protect those falling foul of an individual BAT leader . |
| 13 | He says the precinct should have been covered over years ago . |
| 14 | Such suicides are nearly always preventable and many of those in despair should have been moved to hospital for treatment or received active medical help while in prison . |
| 15 | Everything she had thrown in Luke 's direction should have been transferred to Rob , really . |
| 16 | It is grossly unfair that she should have been sentenced to life having been provoked by her partner over a period into killing him . |
| 17 | Why Letcombe should have been sentenced to death is as much a mystery now as it was then . |
| 18 | We know that each of these groups contained a small minority of emigres , and that the Cossack Cavalry Corps in addition contained nearly 1000 Germans who , under the 1929 Geneva Convention on PoWs , should have been repatriated to Germany . |
| 19 | If ever artifice and device should have been foregone in favour of uncluttered simplicity in the recounting of experience , this was a case in point . |
| 20 | The fishing , the slides of Tenerife were all irrelevant ; he should have been dealing with Steen . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ What is so appalling is that millions of pounds which should have been invested in children 's education has been squandered in pursuit of electoral advantage . ’ |
| 22 | But if the Franks were the dominant partner it is difficult to explain why so much material should have been channelled towards England with little apparently going back in return . |
| 23 | And topped up again to pay for the repair of the flat roof over the kitchen , and the man who had done the work should have been prosecuted for fraud . |
| 24 | Yet personal allowances should have been raised in line with last December 's inflation rate of 2.6 per cent , allowing taxpayers to earn at least an extra £90 a year before tax . |
| 25 | The anarchist paper Freiheit , in opposition to the Marxists , thought Eleanor should have been shot on sight upon arriving . |
| 26 | The Colonel had taken Sophia under his wing as a frail and dependent woman , who because of her son 's lack of responsibility must work , when she should have been maintained in comfort . |
| 27 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 28 | There is nothing surprising , therefore , in the fact that new conceptions should have been formulated — of the ‘ developmentalist ’ state , the ‘ interventionist ’ state , the particular forms of the state in ‘ industrial ’ or ‘ post-industrial ’ societies — or that political development in the twentieth century and its antecedents in the nineteenth century should have been reinterpreted in terms of democracy and totalitarianism , and of the rise of the nation state as well as the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 29 | By rights , as Dorothy Hardisty pointed out , these young people should have been destined for college or university . |
| 30 | If anything permanent were to be achieved , it should have been done under Rufus . |