Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their procedures should be made more intelligible and appellants need more support and help in putting their cases . |
| 2 | Notice first that I have implied a tradeoff , which should be made more explicit and later will be explored in additional detail . |
| 3 | There is an opportunity for a subsequent improvement , if the system is freed from the worst effects of political interference , which should be made more explicit . |
| 4 | And I think it 's I would give very great weight to this partic these two criteria put together and and I think they should be made more explicit sir . |
| 5 | They , too , should be made more straightforward for people to understand and should be provided in a comparable form . |
| 6 | However , this duty should be made more onerous and explicit in the PPG Note . |
| 7 | The Committee concluded that the ‘ case law is probably sufficient to inhibit litigation by parents opposed to particular actions , such as authority to impose sanctions was insufficiently explicit and should be made more definitive ( see below ) . |
| 8 | In particular , licensing magistrates and fire and health authorities should be made more aware of the character and needs of historic buildings . |
| 9 | Richard Poynter , another leading solicitor in this field , argues complainants should be made more aware of the procedure as much recent primary law depends on far-reaching delegated powers through informal tribunals and administrative officials . |
| 10 | Albert Honey , who works for Thames Valley Police , agrees and thinks the regions M P's should be made more aware of the problem . |
| 11 | It suggested that some polytechnics and colleges should be given complete autonomy by the Secretary of State to validate their own courses ; others should be allowed more limited autonomy , in specific areas ; while in yet others external validation should remain . |
| 12 | Experiments have shown that the shorter ( 14,769 item ) word list contains insufficient items for practical purposes ( i.e. the correct words were not found in the list ) , so search times for longer lists should be considered more important . |
| 13 | First , EEC agriculture must be made more efficient and competitive , with the objective being to get down as near as possible to the marketplace and world prices , however they are defined . |
| 14 | Republicans after 1871 therefore believed , with some justification , that the country 's diplomatic service was dominated by royalist and Bonapartist influences and that it must be made more responsive to republican ideas . |
| 15 | The law must be made more humane , for ‘ sights of abject misery , perpetually recurring , harden the heart of the community ’ . |
| 16 | Generally speaking the businesses that obtained government-guaranteed loan funds have produced problems : They require greater monitoring and supervising than the banks normally like to devote to small businesses and , as the type of support is very often a last resource , they must be considered more risky than the norm . |
| 17 | As Hill ( 1983 , p. 124 ) observes , the ‘ attacks on Quangos have obscured , rather than illuminated , the serious issue of how ministerial patronage might be replaced by alternative selection procedures , and how these bodies might be made more accountable , without losing that very semi-independence which was a major reason for establishing them in the first place ’ . |
| 18 | The wider range is erm , what might be termed more speculative investments , but there are many shares available within the wider range which are in fact extremely sound and safe investments , and the sort which we as trustees would wish to invest in . |
| 19 | Among nationalist politicians , the main question on the UDR is whether the force should be abolished or whether , with radical changes , it could be rendered more acceptable to Catholics . |
| 20 | Finally , services could be rendered more attractive to users . |
| 21 | Trustee Arthur Houghton is called ‘ a loose cannon ’ due to his idea that the Cloisters ‘ could be made more appealing to the average visitor by weeding out the ‘ welter of objects ’ . |
| 22 | It would certainly be easier to mitigate the effects of such a drought if long-range forecasting could be made more effective , and although there is as yet no secure basis for the kind of forecasting required , an analysis of the causes of the latest drought offers some hope of explanations that may have predictive value in future . |
| 23 | By lowering the height of the wall , and thereby enabling it to be built more thickly , it could be made more effective in both defence and counter-attack . |
| 24 | If you have difficulty getting to the lavatory , it could be made more accessible by special adaptations such as hand rails or a raised seat . |
| 25 | Thus , whereas classicism 's image of human nature portrayed all human beings as being fully responsible for their own actions , Bentham saw criminals as having limited rationality and responsibility , but thought that they could be made more rational by the correct application of reformative techniques in his ‘ mill for grinding rogues honest ’ , as he called the Panopticon . |
| 26 | In seeking ways in which planning procedures could be made more efficient , the committee noted that ‘ not all authorities are operating as efficiently as they might ’ and the greatest scope for improvement lay in assisting all authorities to reach the standard set by the best . |
| 27 | But it is hard indeed to see how that axiom itself could be made more convincing either to a purely humanist philosophy or to a theology which maintained that God is something more and other than the obverse of our finitude . |
| 28 | No doubt this could be made more sophisticated but it was judged better to oblige the user to adjust the illumination . |
| 29 | This still held good under Henry III and Edward I. But there were at least two means whereby the un-welcome connotations of homage for the king-duke of Aquitaine could be made more acceptable . |
| 30 | First , older people could be made more aware of the importance of changes in individual behaviour and their potential health benefits . |