Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Community care — perhaps most especially for people with learning difficulties — should be about expanding the opportunities available to clients and their carers by providing new and varied types of service . |
| 2 | I have lost my small claim to the saint , ’ said Robert Bossu , with a flashing smile and a shrug of his high shoulder , ‘ and should be about taking my leave here . ’ |
| 3 | Dr G 's belief that physics should be about learning to think in an ‘ abstract and critical way ’ is reflected in his views on teaching ; it is , for example , important to him that students should have some control over their own learning . |
| 4 | Labour 's rhetoric should be about engineering a genuine equality of opportunity rather than imposing a mythical equality of outcome … |
| 5 | Manners , above all , should be about behaving the same way to everyone you meet ; a person who sucks up to the nobs and snubs those he regards as his ‘ inferiors ’ is manifestly not a gent . |
| 6 | ‘ Community care should be about caring for people , not pushing them around ’ . |
| 7 | Stable jockey Warren O'Connor hopes to be fit to ride Royal Ballerina following his ankle operation in July and if that 's the case then the Kauntze filly should be worth supporting . |
| 8 | Stable jockey Warren O'Connor hopes to be fit to ride Royal Ballerina following his ankle operation in July and if that 's the case then the Kauntze filly should be worth supporting . |
| 9 | It should be worth waiting for the last in which Mick Ryan 's Les Amis ( 3.40 ) is well drawn and must be fancied on her two lengths defeat of Quinta Royale at Folkestone . |
| 10 | Kapellan ( 5.22 ) , overdue for a win , should be worth waiting for in the last race at Hove today . |
| 11 | In supporting the Bill at its Second Reading in the House of Commons , the Minister of State at the Home Office , Mr Alexander Lyon , explained the Bill 's overall purpose thus : ‘ If a man has committed an indiscretion that brings him before the courts and results in his being convicted and penalised , it must be right that after he has served the penalty and lived it down by a substantial period of good conduct thereafter , it should be without meaning for most people of good will . ’ |
| 12 | Where the power is exercised , it should be for achieving the ends of justice and fairness . |
| 13 | It is very important to get the facts if we are to contemplate what the police should be for controlling and preventing crime . |
| 14 | There is also a lack of clarity over where the emphasis should be for promoting the involvement of general practitioners . |
| 15 | Nights should be for crooning to your girl on a rooftop , not dumping your business partner in the bay . ’ |
| 16 | In short , information items needed to set out what the relationship between bureaux and social fund officers should be with regard to giving money advice to clients . |
| 17 | Normally , the first pass should be with OPT O ( or OPT 4 ) and the second pass with OPT 2 ( OPT 6 ) . |
| 18 | The emphasis should be on supporting and protecting your own jumper and not illegally interfering with the opposing jumper . |
| 19 | Clearly , an LEA has an obligation in the words of a recent Audit Commission report ( Audit Commission 1989a ) to ‘ articulate a vision of what the education service is trying to achieve ’ and to ‘ support schools and help them to fulfil this vision ’ , but it could be argued that the most appropriate focus for such a vision , necessarily generalized because of the range of institutional contexts and pupil needs involved , should be on identifying broad goals and the kinds of learning which schools might seek to promote . |
| 20 | The emphasis should be on informing and maintaining professional interest . |
| 21 | I had no interest in what this house should be like wishing only for a place and quickly to lay my head and could hardly rouse myself to inspect it . |
| 22 | erm we did n't have a holiday for that but we used , when it was Willenhall er our mums knew that we should be like going home and we used to go straight from work to the Wakes you see , which was a , it was really a good wake then but then you 'd got to walk home . |
| 23 | Spending time with your bass should be like spending time with a good friend . |
| 24 | I think people can do as they please and they can make up their own minds but I just do n't think that all , everyone else should be like advertising the fact |
| 25 | ‘ Our young ones do n't seem to think we should be in mourning for my mother because she was glad to go , ’ said Julia . |
| 26 | The report says the main thrust of the work should be in reducing the amount of energy Britain burns to keep buildings warm . |
| 27 | Thus we can always tell what colour a face should be by looking at its centre , regardless of how mixed up the cube is . |
| 28 | Erm , secondly , we will only be able to do that effectively and this is the point you were making about say , erm , school governors and so on , if people really feel they do have some genuine power , locally , it must be about enabling and empowering local groups to have power and take part within their community . |
| 29 | the wage system is fundamental to capitalist society , so that despite all the disadvantages of wage work , the way forward must be through furthering the process of proletarianisation of women and rescuing women from preproletarian dependence . |
| 30 | ‘ The ECC looks like a practical , realistic design incorporating features that must be worth pursuing further , ’ said one judge . |