Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] moved " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frogs should not be moved from pond to pond says the Essex Wildlife Trust because of the danger of spreading red leg disease — a fatal disorder that turns the legs blood red before death . |
| 2 | In fact the local psychiatrists shared a firm conviction that the older generation of the long-stay population should not be moved into the community . |
| 3 | Treated lambs should preferably be moved to safe pasture and if this is not possible , treatment may have to be repeated at monthly intervals until the pasture larval levels decrease in early winter . |
| 4 | In order to stop this movement , the top of the pendulum must now be moved sharply to the left to counteract it and then smartly back to a point directly above the helicopter at precisely the moment that the movement stops . |
| 5 | In Section 2 he rejects the suggestion , conveyed by the exclamation , ‘ Surely a similarity must strike us , or we should n't be moved to use the same word ’ , that some act must precede the act of using the word ; and in Sections 5 and 10 he talks about the ‘ mistake ’ labelled by the word ‘ to make ’ as it occurs in the question , ‘ What made you call this ‘ red ’ ? ’ ) |
| 6 | a mi a very minor point that is that while we 're er carrying on these negotiations and I , I think it can be done without thought without er making the timespan from the start of this bypass , there is one minor point in that and I think it could be dealt with and , and that is the people of Brandon can see that , that the pedestrian crossing near the small roundabout in the centre of the town is far too close to that roundabout and they er believe that it causes considerable traffic hold ups and I see erm no reason why this pedestrian crossing should n't be moved |
| 7 | Last night his father Ian Gibson , of Moffat Close , Darlington , said his son may soon be moved into one of the non-critical wards . |
| 8 | it will be change , I ca n't say , is it , I mean I said it 's a change of address , they know I 'll probably be moved in four to six weeks |
| 9 | it 'll never be moved from there , but what an opportunity they had , they could of , they could |
| 10 | It is raining , so no crate may ever be moved outside . |
| 11 | Toward the end of the war , many artillery pieces were of such a size and weight that they could only be moved around on specially strengthened railway freight wagons . |
| 12 | Food , whether as aid or as normal trade , could not be moved from the ports to the people who needed it . |
| 13 | The plight of the injured was an unenviable one ; several of them could not be moved . |
| 14 | All the stores that could not be moved by native porters or the gallant Timor ponies were destroyed on 22 February and the Company moved south into the mountains , from where they were able to watch an area of 300 square miles ( over 770km 2 ) , patrolling for negative reports as often as they made enemy sightings . |
| 15 | It was considered for use as a barricade but could not be moved without detaching the wings and was therefore left intact ( Corrects September FlyPast ) . |
| 16 | However , the sluggish and top-heavy bureaucratic apparatus of the City Council could not be moved to action . |
| 17 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 18 | The rockets had been damaged by allied bombing raids during the Gulf war and could not be moved to the main destruction site at Muthana , where most of the other 45,000 chemical warheads had been transported . |
| 19 | But if Britain could not be moved towards European economic co-operation , Acheson continued to press for increases to the military strength of the West . |
| 20 | one of the things I 'm thinking of in the longer term and I I bounced this of er was that if groups moved to Stansted could not be moved across to groups to sort this problem out because I think she 's getting bored in what she 's doing |
| 21 | A proliferation of pentecostal and evangelical sects , and the success of the Salvation Army ( founded in 1878 ) seemed to show that though the masses could still be moved by religious fervour , they could not find it in the established churches . |
| 22 | If anyone out there wants a crane , makes an offer to Bristol Works Department in about three years ' time — they bought it cheap ( £16,000 ) because nobody else wanted a crane that could n't be moved about easily ! |
| 23 | They used to use it like a canal ; anything that could n't be moved easily by land , they 'd stick it on a boat . |
| 24 | To open the lock , the key would be inserted and turned pushing the teeth into the bolt ; the interlocked key and bolt could then be moved sideways . |
| 25 | Here , as with most of Shostakovich , the content they locate is a projection of what they know of its circumstances - by which only a heart of stone would not be moved . |
| 26 | ‘ No , not at all , thank you , ’ said the Prince , and , even when pressed by the professor , he would not be moved . |
| 27 | But the intransigent majority of Cabinet members would not be moved by threats . |
| 28 | Certainly it 's , it 's , it 's tricky for them , obviously we do n't know how long this strikes going to continue , and people in the area are facing er some initial food shortages , and basic commodities which would normally be moved by road , and indeed even as far as Bilbao this morning , there are a shortage of reported , of a , of basic necessities like milk and bread . |
| 29 | Homeboy Ice T from south central Los Angeles also has an anti-cocaine song , The Winner Loses , but while Pop is singing I Shall Not Be Moved , Ice T is chopping up his racist mother and shooting cops in the face . |
| 30 | The adoption of street marches , sit-downs , passive resistance and songs like ‘ We shall not be moved ’ and ‘ We shall overcome ’ are evidence that the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland saw a close parallel between its activities and the struggle of Blacks in the Deep South . |