Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It states that the curriculum should be balanced and broadly based , and should |
| 2 | The development of this ‘ trading empire ’ should be seen as directly associated with the development of the Minoan civilization on Crete . |
| 3 | All assets built up during the marriage should be regarded as jointly owned and therefore jointly divided on divorce , apart from those which are clearly intended for one party or the other through a specific gift or bequest . |
| 4 | In fact , this is what we are fighting for : non-white talents should be recognised and suitably awarded without any prejudice . |
| 5 | Age Concern believes that the work of community health councils should be expanded and better funded , and that membership of voluntary organisations on CHCs should be increased , with the interests of elderly people represented . |
| 6 | A controversial issue was the future ownership of the assets of the PUWP ; a parliamentary commission had been set up shortly before the conference to investigate the extent to which such assets , valued by the party at some US$70,000,000 , should be forfeited as illegally acquired from the state . |
| 7 | ‘ Smoking tobacco , drinking excess alcohol and taking drugs of dependence … should be stopped or severely curtailed . |
| 8 | The Disability Alliance argues that the quota system should be enhanced and properly enforced and the number of sheltered employment opportunities rapidly expanded . |
| 9 | The brush should be dipped and loosely scrubbed over a surface wetting the area , rather than cleaning , then dipped again and used to scrub rapidly the wetted area . |
| 10 | They should be typed and double spaced , and include the full name and address of the author , which we can omit if requested . |
| 11 | The advantages of the private law model are as follows : ( 1 ) It assumes that the rights investors would have had in the absence of statutory intervention should be preserved unless clearly taken away . |
| 12 | Hyman ( 1982b , p. 108 ) reiterates the general point that in industrial relations ‘ the present must be viewed as historically conditioned and historically contingent , and as incomprehensible except by means of historical understanding . ’ |
| 13 | Nor did it support the ‘ geographic fiction ’ that evidence to be produced in the United States was not ‘ abroad ’ even though it was in fact located in a foreign country or must be gathered or otherwise prepared abroad . |
| 14 | Traditionally practitioners have considered infant behaviour problems to be symptomatic of underlying disorder — that the problem exists inside the child and must be diagnosed and then treated with a view to a cure . |
| 15 | The basis on which this takes place must be defined and easily understood . |
| 16 | The several price quotations which have been collected for each of the 350 items in the ‘ basket ’ must be averaged and then divided by the average price of that item in January 1985 . |
| 17 | With the Edinburgh tournament likely to mirror the Catania format the flaws revealed by the Italian tournament must be addressed and hopefully solved . |
| 18 | It is not necessarily essential to design knowledge representation formalisms into which the input text must be translated and subsequently acted upon . |
| 19 | The Steam Tank comes in several large parts which must be glued and preferably pinned together . |
| 20 | At the very least they must be contained and never allowed to sally out . |
| 21 | Although the two are separate , they must be considered as clearly linked : if the use of a weapon is illegal in any or certain circumstances , then it is illegal to initiate a conflict by using it . |
| 22 | Several forms of the GGF ( and related ) proteins could be involved as normally secreted , or injury-released , activities that regulate the number of Schwann cells and their gene activity . |
| 23 | If a good deal of conduct disorder could be prevented or successfully treated in childhood , it would seem that such intervention should have considerable impact on the prevalence of personality disorder and sociopathic behaviour among adults . |
| 24 | By drinking and bathing in the sea , he claimed , tuberculosis , tooth decay and intestinal disorders could be prevented or largely cured . |
| 25 | I think it erm it possibly could be politicized and actually funded . |
| 26 | The rule of law , in short , could be threatened or even dispensed with by parliamentary enactment . |
| 27 | Unlike previous texts , this book made an unreserved attempt to show how the phenomena of physical geography could be rationalized and perhaps given new significance and new coherence in terms of systems theory , and ‘ by avoiding the usual pot pourri of information about the earth and its atmosphere which had traditionally been termed physical geography ’ it was devoted to the identification and analysis of some of the more important systematic relationships with which modern physical geographers are concerned . |
| 28 | Because their concentration was actively on something other than themselves it could be described as ACTIVELY PROJECTED . |
| 29 | She seemed to have lost some sense that events could be controlled or hopefully directed . |
| 30 | The EC had moved toward a more flexible position in October when the German cabinet agreed that subsidies to farmers could be reduced and partly replaced by direct income support . |