Example sentences of "[modal v] be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Lenin cites with approval Engels ' recommendation that there should be complete self-government for the provinces , districts and localities through officials elected by universal suffrage and the abolition of all local and provincial authorities appointed by the state .
2 There should be easy access to toilets .
3 Given the Community 's capacity to help other European countries — not only the successful ones who now wish to join , and are already beginning to apply , but the east European countries , with all their problems — it is extraordinary and perverse to suggest that there should be greater disunity in the Community at the very moment when greater aid and support is called for .
4 The combination of changing employment patterns with the increase of numbers of frail elderly people in society , make it appear highly desirable that there should be greater flexibility in the roles allocated to men and women , in relation to domestic arrangements and external employment .
5 Inbuilt grant resources for dissemination need to be sought , time must be allowed for lay versions of research to be written as well as academically respectable reports , and there should be greater opportunities for co-operation with policy makers and practitioners in discussions concerning implications of research .
6 Profit centres should be logical groupings of work by type or by geographical distribution with significant directly attributable costs in relation to the whole business .
7 The election was required by law , and if anyone thought it odd that there should be such trouble over elections to a chamber that now met only to ratify decisions taken elsewhere , then they kept the notion to themselves .
8 Thus results from passive avoidance and imprinting might begin to converge , which should be good news for both labs .
9 That should be good news for Jack Russell but bad news for Mike Atherton , who had looked favourite to partner Gooch if Stewart kept wicket and batted in the middle order .
10 In the subsequent layout , road needs and road widths had to be assessed ; there should be good access to the rear of houses ; the proper orientation of houses should be secured ; design elements should incorporate the cul-de-sac , courtyard and green .
11 It is extremely important that there should be good liaison between the hospital-based service and the primary care team .
12 ‘ It sends out the wrong signal that there should be two groups on the board of directors — the doers and the checkers , ’ said Peter Morgan , the IoD 's director general .
13 Corms should be two inches below ground , indented side upwards .
14 Sign it , so there should be two signatures in that little bit of number three .
15 This in turn prompted a reconsideration of the proposal , rejected in its Working Paper , that there should be two degrees of indecent assault .
16 The STUC Women 's Committee 's comments to the Scottish convention contained much of the above , including a recommendation that there should be two MPs from each constituency ( ie , one man and one woman ) .
17 But the difficulty with this discussion is that it lacks a firm point of reference because it can not be taken for granted that there should be two levels of offence , rape and procuring sex by threats .
18 Is it right that there should be two classes of old people in this important respect ?
19 There should be new types of pavement design and extra research into the relative costs of concrete and bitumen roads .
20 Was the RHA aware of the conclusions of the Camden and Islington working party on Friern , that there should be new buildings for the old long-stay population on the Friern site , and that the hospital should be developed as a specialist psychogeriatric and teaching service ?
21 The statutory objective is that there should be new ways of providing legal services and a wider choice of providers .
22 There should be one space after a comma , a semi-colon and a colon within the body of your work and one space between each word .
23 We are not preventing anybody from making a bid , but we believe that there should be one form of assistance per company .
24 The general point is that primary schools might be more imaginative and flexible in their deployment of staff : there is no law that says that there should be one teacher to one class for all of the time , and that this is the best possible arrangement in all circumstances .
25 There should be one straw to be put into each bottle ; either each child does his own or one child takes a turn for the group .
26 There should be one rule for everyone .
27 There should be one point at which we can put it and put it in just that one place .
28 They felt , that is to say , that within a given territory , there should be one authority with an ultimate monopoly of coercive power .
29 Unfortunately the single-copy fallacy , the idea that it is enough that there should be one copy of any book in existence , does have support even within the British Library itself .
30 I really do believe it should be one step at a time , ’ she reveals .
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