Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [vb pp] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a corollary to the undifferentiated nuclear deterrent , the British became increasingly insistent from 1954 that Nato 's forces in Central Europe should be limited to a trip-wire role . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that in such cases , the offender 's benefit should be channelled to a general victim compensation fund . |
| 3 | However to deliver high concentrates over a moderately large area of irregular equipment a sprayer should be adjusted to a fine jet . |
| 4 | Ideally the pair should be moved to a 10 gallon tank with a bare bottom and a pot of low growing plants for the female to hide in . |
| 5 | After that visit , Mr Rikanovic suggests that ‘ because court proceedings like this one can last two to three years and be very expensive , especially in the U.S. , the case should be moved to a Swiss court where the whole proceeding would be faster , more efficient and much cheaper ’ . |
| 6 | In serious cases , consideration should be given to a brief period of suspension while the case is investigated and this suspension should be with pay . |
| 7 | ( iv ) If the right to sue in libel should be extended to a local government authority it could not logically be withheld from any government authority having separate legal personality . |
| 8 | A defence motion filed on the same day , however , caused consternation with the claim that Noriega was a US prisoner of war who should be transferred to a neutral third country for trial . |
| 9 | Administrative control of the airwaves should be transferred to an independent non-governmental organ . |
| 10 | Light fittings in the garden should be connected to a separate circuit , from a spare fuse ‘ way ’ on the main consumer unit and protected by a residual circuit device ( RCD ) ( see Safety first ) . |
| 11 | If we recall , the main advocate of scientific management , F.W. Taylor , argued that pay should be related to an individual worker 's output . |
| 12 | There are sometimes signs of strain , as in the clumsy development of a conflict between husband and wife in Mandy ( 1952 , The Crash of Silence in US ) over whether or not their deaf-and-dumb daughter should be sent to a special school . |
| 13 | Brightly coloured coats , shirts and trousers should be tailored to a tight fit ; an elaborately decorated scarf should encircle his waist and hold a dagger : ‘ With a monthly salary of one hundred rupees let him allot ten rupees for the belt and the embroidered badge if he spends fifty rupees on a fur it will not be prodigality . ’ |
| 14 | The system should be tailored to a particular domain , as accuracy can be much greater in a restricted situation . |
| 15 | It remains our conviction that the umpires have done their conscientious best throughout the summer , and that only ‘ line decisions ’ ( run-outs , stumpings , boundary incidents ) should be referred to a third umpire who has a TV playback monitor . |
| 16 | Questions , however , might arise about whether a dispute is a valuation/technical dispute to be referred to an expert or one that should be referred to an arbitral tribunal or the court . |
| 17 | The headnote in the Weekly Law Reports is wrong : it states that the lease provided that disputes were to be referred to arbitration , whereas in fact the lease between Ipswich and Fisons said that if Fisons did not accept Ipswich 's terms the matter should be referred to an independent expert . |
| 18 | Each learner should be assigned to a clinical teacher or tutor whom they should consult regarding individual difficulties . |
| 19 | Day-to-day decision making should be assigned to a particular person if this is not carried out by the board member(s) who have overall responsibility for the policy . |
| 20 | Despite the stated belief in the Proposals that students at school should be exposed to a historic range of English writing , there is little attention to works written before the nineteenth century , and certainly no recognition that new relations with history are causing literary texts to be approached in new ways . |
| 21 | In principle , platform numbers should be kept to an absolute minimum . |
| 22 | Those who do not should be escorted to a suitable room where another member of staff should remain with them if possible , if they wish for this . |
| 23 | A proportion of the X-ray pulsars , which are near relations of the black holes , are members of binaries , and so it is reasonable to expect that some stellar black holes should be bound to a visible star . |
| 24 | The hook should be honed to a needle-sharp point , and the barb reduced to enhance penetration . |
| 25 | These recommend that a local child psychiatric team should be involved with all such individuals and their families , and that young people up to 14 years of age should be admitted to a paediatric ward , rather than a general medical or surgical ward . |
| 26 | Although the original idea had been directed to the whole of the diocese it was felt that any pilot project should be confined to a smaller area . |
| 27 | The butter should be burnt to a mid- tan , sprinkled over the salads , and then the same pan used for quickly boiling four tablespoons of vinegar . |
| 28 | I would have thought that anyone with the most elementary grasp of relative importance would have decided that priority should be accorded to a female child done to death by some scoundrel . ’ |
| 29 | THE DELIBERATE COLD-BLOODED KILLING OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO AN IMMEDIATE END . |
| 30 | At the end of the franchise period the Independent Broadcasting Authority invites tenders and assesses whether the licence should be awarded to an alternative company . |