Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family should be warned against condoning the patient 's anorexic behaviour , which they may do either because they feel unable to tolerate the patient 's anger or because they themselves gain vicarious gratification from the illness . |
| 2 | Such details should be supplied at the earliest possible opportunity when the booking is being made , and if arrangements have been made in advance ( either by letter or by telephone ) , they should be confirmed in writing at the point of reception . |
| 3 | Ideally this Learning Outcome should be integrated with Learning Outcome 1 . |
| 4 | . Whatever opinions may be entertained concerning Mosley and his movement , there could be no graver stigma on the so-called freedom of expression said to prevail in Britain than that a body of Englishmen should be prevented from expressing their views by an Oriental confectioner . |
| 5 | But they seem to work perfectly well in continental Europe , and it is difficult to see why British companies should be prevented from using them . |
| 6 | That no member of the union should be prevented from holding office or be active in any part of this union simply because they are unemployed , sick or disabled . |
| 7 | If he is doing what is against conscience , he is injuring his soul — remember that the Chancellor is an ecclesiastic — and it is better that he should be prevented from inflicting such injury on himself . |
| 8 | Hun Sen said that dismantling his government and disarming the SOC armed forces would be unacceptable , and that the UN role should be limited to overseeing elections , with UN troops being only lightly armed for self-defence . |
| 9 | Save in an exceptional case , our concern , i.e. , the concern of these courts , should be limited to giving the child the maximum possible protection until the courts of the other country — Australia in this case — can resume their normal role in relation to the child . |
| 10 | It should be noted with regard to both types of dangerous animals , that the Act , unlike the common law , contains no requirement that the animal must escape from control , nor that there must be any sort of attack . |
| 11 | ( It should be noted in passing that yet further confusion — and pain to me — was added by Tony Geraghty 's once associating the incident of the missing plane with the unfortunate Operation Loyton , in which the S.A.S. troops posted missing are now known to have been tortured and shot by the Gestapo . ) |
| 12 | It should be noted in passing that in Scotland the change had been made in 1599/60 . |
| 13 | But it should be noted in passing that new mortgages for home-buying run at about the same level as the total volume of other types of new credit extended and outstanding mortgage debt is far greater than the total of all other forms of consumer credit put together . |
| 14 | It should be noted in passing that the precedent for this — the credit union movement 's international mutual insurance fund , which insures only against death ( paying off loans , and paying up to double a union member 's savings ) at no added cost to borrower or saver — is now one of the biggest in the world . |
| 15 | But it should be noted in passing that comparison of varying loan rates in different states of the US with varying degrees of restriction which those states put on entry into the lending market has tended to confirm in practice what might be expected in theory — that a wide range of different sources of credit tends to mean relatively low average loan rates . |
| 16 | ( It should be noted in passing that the Sex Discrimination and Race Relations Acts are of little relevance here . |
| 17 | It should be noted in passing that the situation in the USA is very different ( Squires 1976b ; Gaff 1983 ) . |
| 18 | It should be noted before going any further that for a sample survey to be of any value at all the sampling procedure must be open to scrutiny and stand up to criticism . |
| 19 | It was proposed that the students of Torcy 's academy should be employed in making " a more complete and exact collection of peace-treaties " , with an accompanying commentary ; while the largest such enterprise hitherto , the Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens of J. Dumont de Carlscroon ( twelve volumes : Amsterdam — The Hague , 1726 ) , an assembly of documents reaching back to the age of Charlemagne and drawn from sources all over Europe , was designed mainly as a help in policy-making and a kind of portable archive for the use of diplomats . |
| 20 | This is a spooning cheese and should be served by removing the top crust and scooping out the paste with a spoon — from the retailer 's point of view it is quite difficult to persuade customers that the cheese is as it should be . |
| 21 | Philips , who have refused to accept the existence of eight-track cartridges , feeling that all their efforts should be channelled into forwarding the advance of the cassette , finally cave in and begin marketing cartridges themselves . |
| 22 | Early in 1981 the Regional Council decided that various disused railway lines should be acquired and that a programme should be prepared for converting these for use by cyclists and pedestrians . |
| 23 | Signed Dated This certificate is printed on the attendance slips used in the High Court , but it should be prepared by petitioning creditor 's solicitors in the county court . |
| 24 | The 1M potentiometer should be prepared by attaching short wires to the centre and one of its outer terminals . |
| 25 | Apart from specific treatment for N. battus infection , lambs should be treated at weaning , and if possible moved to safe pasture ie. those not grazed by sheep since the previous year . |
| 26 | On 31 July 1992 , the Commission declared : ‘ Specific and binding assurances from Sweden should be sought with regard to her political commitments and legal capacity to fulfil the obligations … ( on ) the eventual framing of a common defence policy . ’ |
| 27 | He thought that protection from inflation should be sought by adopting an appropriate investment policy . |
| 28 | For instance , permission should be sought before lopping a branch from a tree which is known to be frequented by a Green Lady ; superstitious Derbyshire farmers plant primroses at the foot of such trees each Midsummer 's Eve , so as to be rewarded with wealth and longevity . |
| 29 | PLEASE NOTE : All wartime airfields have been returned to private ownership and permission should be sought before entering them . |
| 30 | Specialist advice should be sought before embarking upon litigation . |