Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] to an " in BNC.

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1 At least once each year they should be invited to an event which permits them to keep abreast of both general and particular developments in their field of interest .
2 The French and German Environment Ministers , Ségolène Royale and Klaus Töpfer respectively , have agreed that fuel consumption on cars made in their countries should be cut to an average of 55 miles per gallon by 2005 .
3 Administrative control of the airwaves should be transferred to an independent non-governmental organ .
4 The banality of this latter type of entertainment is said to have once provoked Napoleon III to remark : ‘ Great God ; they talk about the debauchery of the Court ; they should be sentenced to an evening like this . ’
5 If we recall , the main advocate of scientific management , F.W. Taylor , argued that pay should be related to an individual worker 's output .
6 In case of dispute between custody officer and investigating officer ( who may often outrank him ) , section 39(6) provides that the matter should be referred to an officer of the rank of superintendent or above .
7 All women with hyperprolactinaemia ( >1000 mU/l ) should be referred to an endocrinologist for further assessment and computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging of the pituitary
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 In principle , platform numbers should be kept to an absolute minimum .
11 The formal school , its very formality often proclaimed through uniforms , school prefects and termly reports which show marks and grades , continues to co-exist alongside others which although having almost identical idea on content ( eg that young children should be led to an understanding of life in caves and Victorian towns and how to calculate the area in square metres of a field or a carpet ) adopt a radically different approach to achieve a seemingly identical end .
12 ( This perhaps indicates that it was tactically inept in this case for the plaintiffs to seek to persuade the court that the whole package of information was confidential. ) 5 Whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired in the course of his career , but is merely selling to a third party information which he acquired in confidence in the course of his former employment Goulding J drew no such distinction .
13 The only doubt about this was raised by the Court of Appeal in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 where the court specifically left open the question whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired but is merely selling the knowledge to a third party ( see p79 above ) .
14 The Commission concluded that ‘ the architects ' system of mandatory scales , together with rules which prevent competition for business on the basis of fees , operates against the public interest and should be brought to an end . ’
15 THE DELIBERATE COLD-BLOODED KILLING OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO AN IMMEDIATE END .
16 The United Kingdom Northern Ireland Secretary , Peter Brooke , announced on July 3 that inter-party talks on the future of the province should be brought to an end without agreement having been reached on any substantial issue .
17 It stated that the " vision of a multi-cultural society in Austria should be brought to an end " .
18 The committee proposed that a life should be placed on nonconforming uses and that at the expiration of that life the use should be brought to an end without compensation .
19 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 .
20 Similarly , if your rug becomes wrinkled , out of shape or curls at the edges , this should be left to an expert .
21 This should be left to an independent person qualified in nursing the elderly .
22 However , in appropriate cases an apology should be added to an adjudication .
23 Be flexible , if necessary suggest that more time should be devoted to an item at a separate meeting .
24 It could be argued that if a claim for damages is based on a claim that a governmental body has acted illegally in a public law sense , then the damages claim should be attached to an AJR and be saddled with the same procedural restrictions as would apply to an AJR .
25 YFs these days include all sorts of riff-raff ; solicitors , accountants , stock brokers , that sort of socially unacceptable type exactly the sort Mick from Middlesbrough thinks should be subjected to an attack of class warfare .
26 ‘ While I support the building of am ambulance station at Whitehill , I feel that urgent consideration must be given to an emergency unit close by , ’ he said .
27 The role of judge can not be left to the exchange prosecutors , but must be given to an independent adjudicator or tribunal .
28 Food rewards , if used at all , must be kept to an absolute minimum ( half a Smartie is better than a whole one ) .
29 All traces of glue must be removed from the inside corner , and the corner angle must be checked to an accurate 90° .
30 The source must be aligned to an accuracy of 0.5 micrometres .
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