Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | New ground should be cleared of perennial weed , removing deep roots of docks , thistles and bindweed . |
| 2 | The commissioner had statutory jurisdiction to decide whether the road verges should be registered as common land . |
| 3 | ‘ We will not examine all of them but we will take random samples and check to see if anyone who has registered for gross interest also has a file at one of our tax offices — which they should not normally have as only non-taxpayers should be registered for gross interest . |
| 4 | SHOULD BE REWARDED WITH HIGH QUALITY LOW COST CONTENTS INSURANCE |
| 5 | During the term of office of the third chief executive , a referendum would be held to decide whether the chief executive should be selected by general election . |
| 6 | Should be trained from young age . |
| 7 | No one should be subjected to verbal harassment , just as no one should be threatened with physical violence . |
| 8 | How the latter will be achieved remains to be seen , but it has been mooted that a surcharge should be levied on tropical timber , to be paid by the market , which could be used to undertake research into ways of achieving and ensuring tropical forest survival . |
| 9 | In February 1985 , a government Green Paper 3 accepted the basic proposition that a royalty should be levied on blank tape , but the amount was limited to a maximum of 10 per cent on the retail price of the tape . |
| 10 | National armaments should be limited by mutual agreement , and the pressures of the military-industrial complex regulated by nationalization of armaments firms and control over the arms trade . |
| 11 | The range of attitudes is illustrated by strategies that state , at one extreme , that ‘ all people should be provided with access to public transport services for three return trips a day to the nearest market town , providing for a journey to work in the morning , a mid-day shopping journey and a journey home in the evening … ’ , and suggest , at the other extreme , that all ‘ deep ’ rural areas should have a public transport service to a local centre on at least two days a week or that all sizeable villages should be served by public transport on one day a week ( Adams et al . |
| 12 | Floats should be inspected for good finish , secure rings and concentric shape . |
| 13 | They cover courses which the Government believe should be secured at national level because of their national significance . |
| 14 | Another 6000 to 8000 troops should be sent simultaneously against Gosport , which should be secured with equal ease and from there 24 mortars would make the dockyard and lower town of Portsmouth untenable . |
| 15 | Advertisements inviting applications from individuals wishing to job-share or from a pair prepared to share with each other should be prepared for local distribution . |
| 16 | We are already aware , however , of dangerous interpretations of the paper by some people to the effect that schools health education as a whole has been shown to be ineffective , and that efforts should be diverted towards non-school policy measures and health education outside the school . |
| 17 | Parliament and government should be elected by popular vote , or a weighted version of it , but once elected , the people should accept that an assembly of " the best and wisest men in the nation " will make better decisions than the people themselves . |
| 18 | They also declared that the president of the republic should be elected by universal suffrage . |
| 19 | The legal debate in involuntary manslaughter is over the lower threshold of homicide liability — where to draw the line between manslaughter and killings which should be ascribed to mere accident . |
| 20 | Boots which have been factory-treated and given a waterproof finish should not normally be given a wax treatment when new , but should be treated with ordinary shoe polish . |
| 21 | Broken bottles are just as dangerous as knives and should be treated with equal respect . |
| 22 | It 's something Dermot O'Shea is pleased to see — as Art Editor of The Irish Times he 's always felt that , just as a newspaper gives prominence to its top story , so also its best images should be treated with equal respect . |
| 23 | Accordingly , sophisticated econometric analyses of balance of payments behaviour should be treated with strong scepticism . |
| 24 | The need for independence , linked with the need for love , are amongst the last treasures of old age , and should be treated with great delicacy . |
| 25 | Lacerations and puncture wounds to the following areas should be treated with great caution as there are vital organs , blood vessels and nerves close to the surface — the face , neck , chest , abdomen , and back . |
| 26 | A mixed rack should be carried and any in-situ gear , particularly old pegs , should be treated with great caution . |
| 27 | Use of the ratios as measures of the efficiency of individual managers should be treated with great caution unless they are part of a well-thought-out scheme of key results and objectives for individuals . |
| 28 | Use of the ratios as measures of the efficiency of individual managers should be treated with great caution unless they are part of a well-thought-out scheme of key results and objectives for individuals . |
| 29 | The results for this question are difficult to interpret and should be treated with great caution . |
| 30 | The stonefish is the most deadly of all fishes , but many others possess poisonous spines developed from fin-rays , and any prickly-looking fish should be treated with great respect . |