Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should be no preconceptions whatever , no areas of intellectual abstinence , and we should go out of our way to build common cause with other parties around the world in searching out the way forward . |
| 2 | We should be prepared to countenance the possibility that there will be children who leave school with little or no literary knowledge ; but there should be no children who leave without competence in their own native tongue . |
| 3 | Your objectives should be every time somebody says no , thank you for the fifty pound . |
| 4 | More generally , if reaction time is plotted against the time interval between target and recognition point , the result should be a function which increases linearly . |
| 5 | The first is a quote from Al Deere , one of the most famous Battle of Britain pilots : Fate is a strange master and I have always been a fatalist , — he should be a fatalist he has baled out nine times in his air-lighting life . |
| 6 | Ideally , a stylometric test of authorship should be a feature which is characteristic of all the known works of a particular author and which is unique to his works . |
| 7 | Scriptwriters Peter Lewis and Peter Dobereiner decided there should be a character who could put into words what young people were thinking . |
| 8 | With vigilance within the industry this should be a problem which can be stamped out . ’ |
| 9 | It is almost obligatory that the private-eye should be a person who looks at society from below , as contrasted with the Great Detective who certainly hovered over the world of murder from high above . |
| 10 | ‘ You should be a journalist yourself . |
| 11 | The other one should be a button I 've pressed the button just lift this up button she set , there you go . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's ironic that it should be a colleague who caused the wound , because I have now toured New Zealand three times and watched their style of rucking . |
| 13 | Well , my understanding is that the individual should have a job description as that 's what they are working too , and I thought at one time that it should be the individual who would sign the job description but apparently not , it should be the manager , who signs it to say yes , I confirm that this is the job I want the person to do . |
| 14 | Indeed if the aim is to provide those who control corporate assets with an incentive for putting those assets to their best use it should be the managers who receive the profits of the company and in whose interests it should be run , a conclusion which no one has as yet advocated seriously . |
| 15 | It provided that the cost of a benefit consisting of the provision of any service or facility which was also provided to the public ( i.e. , in-house benefits ) should be the price which the public paid for such facility or service . |
| 16 | They were valued on the basis of the quoted share price , but the shareholders argued that , since all the shares were being acquired , stock exchange prices were not a true criterion and that either the whole undertaking should be valued and the price thus determined apportioned among the shareholders , or the value should be the price which one buyer would give for the whole block , which price should then be similarly apportioned . |
| 17 | Well you 're not the one who flipping made the driving licence so it should be the person you got it off for fraud . |
| 18 | While ideally this should be the chairman there may be someone even better at it in the group . |
| 19 | The law recognises that the shareholders ' interest lies ultimately in the value of their shares and not in the business as such , or at least , it recognises that it should be the shareholders who determine the outcome of a bid , and hence ( as we will see in more detail in Chapter 5 ) prohibits certain forms of defensive action on the part of the target company board which could have the effect of depriving the members of an opportunity to dispose of their investment on favourable terms . |
| 20 | And it is essential that we should be the ones who control just which parts of our brains we use so that we can achieve what we have decided are our goals . |
| 21 | It should be the people who are ‘ like that ’ ( and also ‘ beyond hope ’ ) who are on the defensive : those who stamp on students ' enthusiasm ( however naive it may be ) who get the funny looks — not the students . |
| 22 | If anybody had any opportunity of getting E Ten right , it should be the Department which the Secretary of State to insert E Ten , because he is the highest authority in this . |
| 23 | It could be argued that in societies where the capitalist ethos is paramount the criminal is no less entitled to gain commercial advantage from his or her lawful activity than any other member of the community and that it should be the market which decides whether or not criminals should profit . |
| 24 | Mr Tantum criticised a suggestion made by the Law Commission this year that hacking in its simple form should be an offence which did not give the police powers to arrest suspects or search their premises . |
| 25 | It should be an inconvenience which ‘ materially interferes with the ordinary comfort of human existence , not merely according to elegant or dainty modes and habits of living , but according to plain and sober and simple notions among the English people ’ . |
| 26 | Spelt correctly , there should be an E there should n't there ? |
| 27 | There must be no schools which are winners or losers . |
| 28 | ‘ There must be a way you can help us communicate with them . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ they state , ‘ it must be a threat which a person of the age and with the other characteristics of the woman could not reasonably be expected , in the circumstances , to resist . ’ |
| 30 | Section 230(2) of the Act of 1986 provides that , where an administrative receiver of a company is appointed , he must be a person who is qualified to act as an insolvency practitioner in relation to that company . |