Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [vb pp] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He emphasised that the European Parliament should be given more teeth to ensure value for money and for scrutinising how the Commission spends taxpayers ' money . |
| 2 | So there 's no reason why these people should be given more votes rather their superior status can be recognized by giving them more informal influence . |
| 3 | The Lord Chancellor 's Legal Aid Advisory Committee had already indicated that the Law Society should be given these powers , but it , and the Law Society , were then frustrated by the failure of successive governments to bring this part of the Act into force . |
| 4 | With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned . |
| 5 | Having got the feel of the exercise , it can be repeated anywhere , and should be done many times a day . |
| 6 | At the meeting Kohl yielded to Polish pressure in agreeing that the treaty should be signed some months earlier than he had anticipated . |
| 7 | Does not the hon. Gentleman think it wrong in principle that elected councillors should be paid such salaries on these corporation bodies ? |
| 8 | There is a marked reluctance to arguing why people should be accorded such rights — " It just is so and things work better if you accept it — racism for example causes instability and prejudice and violence , so it must go " . |
| 9 | Secondly , the viral genetic material must be replicated many times to provide a copy for each new virus particle ( E ) . |
| 10 | Both expansions of the European Economic Community led to the central institutions of the Community arguing successfully that , for the enlargement to function , they must be given more powers and the Community ‘ s political union must be strengthened . |
| 11 | Basically , the taxpayers are facing possibly ‘ bad ’ law which makes no provision for the special facts of their own case — which must be repeated many times elsewhere , particulary in , say , Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Yet personal encounters , first as Cripps 's deputy in the Treasury and later as chancellor of the exchequer , persuaded Gaitskell that there were some people in Washington who appreciated that Britain must be granted some safeguards for her economy . |
| 13 | The motor control routine shown in Fig. 8.3 is entered with the number of steps loaded into accumulator A ( if the number of steps can not be expressed within the confines of an eight.bit word corresponding to 256 steps the routine must be executed several times ) and the index register X pointing at a location in the list between ENDLOW and ENDHI . |
| 14 | So they must be paid all arrears of wages , granted full pension rights accruing through continuity of employment , and given any pay increases that would have been their due if they had not been dismissed . |
| 15 | This means that the chain must be folded many times like a concertina to be accommodated in the crystal . |
| 16 | Thus , payment for work carried out now might be made several months later and it is convenient for the debt to be expressed and for the payment to be made in money terms rather than in terms of some commodity . |
| 17 | As might be expected any questions involving decimals were rather demanding , but it is noticeable that where the answer included a half success rates were higher than for 0.1 or unc and other decimals . |
| 18 | The market might be held several days a week , and if , like the great Cotswold wood marts at Cirencester , Tetbury and so forth , it was noted for some speciality , business might be attracted from well outside the five-mile radius considered reasonable for day-to-day requirements in the Middle Ages . |
| 19 | Finally , a ‘ psychiatric post-mortem ’ might be held some weeks later when staff feel less distressed . |
| 20 | ‘ They 'll be asked such things as — Is quality your responsibility or that of your manager ? |
| 21 | He could be seen most mornings at the door of his shop in Wimbledon Village , arms crossed , mouth twisted in a superior sneer , just waiting for the chance to decode the small print on the front of buses . |
| 22 | The question of the uniqueness of the initial conditions is closely related to that of the arbitrariness of the local physical laws : One would not regard a theory as complete if it contained a number of adjustable parameters such as masses or coupling constants that could be given any values one liked . |
| 23 | By taking the voltage to +0.5 V they returned to the original low resistance , and this cycle could be repeated many times . |
| 24 | The bizarre story of British academic institutions ' flattery of the Ceauşescus could be repeated many times over in other impeccably democratic countries . |
| 25 | Connections of this nature could be woven many times over . |
| 26 | I have only selected a few examples of deducing modes of life from these fossils with two valves ; the examples could be multiplied many times . |
| 27 | This example could be multiplied many times in all the industrial regions of England . |
| 28 | Clearly , Greeley and Rossi 's findings could be used both ways , and in fact both camps in the Irish debate have found it supportive of their case . |
| 29 | Wo n't be too many places he 'd be remembered these days , all those who could remember him are dead , or trying to die . |
| 30 | Corporations may be granted these devices , but they are normally permitted only to counties , cities and councils of standing ; and companies and institutions of an important national nature . |