Example sentences of "[vb mod] be a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the demand for money is fairly stable there should be a reasonably predictable effect in terms of increased demand for other assets , which may be real or financial . |
| 2 | The actual monitor controls are never altered , the adjustments are made with the standard colour wheel control of the Macintosh , but the end result should be a pretty close approximation . |
| 3 | This is all very well , but even a ‘ Little Bang ’ should be a pretty spectacular affair . |
| 4 | I mean , Sharp 's playing well wide left ; move Macca inside him ; and Rocky inside Strachan should be a pretty good mid-filed line up . |
| 5 | This should be a rather unusual outing . |
| 6 | ‘ It is a terrible wrench for any mother to give up seeing her sons on such an important and what should be a gloriously happy day . ’ |
| 7 | In place of the audit , it says , the individual who prepares the accounts — who should be a professionally qualified accountant — should sign a certificate stating that the accounts had been prepared in accordance with relevant UK accounting principles . |
| 8 | Apart from re-iterating his belief , which is gaining support , that there probably should be a completely new major circuit of not more than a dozen tournaments , based round the Grand Slams and culminating in one end-of-season event , Becker said ‘ We 're not machines . |
| 9 | Place the pool in position , check the edges are level and make any necessary adjustments to the hole , which should be a little wider than the shape |
| 10 | The coding of letters into the three categories should be a little flexible for letters such as f , i , and z which can be written in different ways , so a coding of ‘ a ’ was included to represent any zone . |
| 11 | He was forced by the Leader of the Opposition to withdraw that threat , so he should be a little careful . |
| 12 | The width of each side of the frame should be a little less than half the width of your plastic bag . |
| 13 | It was , as they saw it , Mrs Thatcher 's abuse of the loosely defined conventions that made such politically conscious people demand constitutional reform , one cardinal feature of which should be a properly articulated status of citizenship . |
| 14 | They considered , inter alia , the arguments in favour of a trial by jury in these cases ; whether there are types of cases which could be dealt with effectively or justly outside the criminal justice system ; and also whether there should be a properly structured system of plea bargaining with proper safeguards . |
| 15 | It should be a most memorable occasion ! ’ |
| 16 | It should be a most enjoyable luncheon . |
| 17 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of HP 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under the new agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |
| 18 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of Hewlett 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under yesterday 's agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |
| 19 | In March 1987 the Hizb-e-Islami party accepted that Afghanistan should be a truly neutral and non-aligned state after a Soviet withdrawal . |
| 20 | As you will see from the introduction , we believe there should be a much wider debate in Wales on such an important issue . |
| 21 | As you will see from the introduction , we believe there should be a much wider debate in Wales on such an important issue . |
| 22 | ‘ There should be a much higher threshold at which solicitors would need to consult the board . |
| 23 | It should be a totally integrated solution , both from the point of view of the accounting application itself , and also the way that we inter-operate with the other applications in a user organization . |
| 24 | This creates a very negative impression in what should be a totally positive document . |
| 25 | In December 1947 , for example , when they had agreed a memorandum on Area Board organisation , Randall , the London Board chairman , insisted that it should be a purely advisory document not binding on the areas ; and some degree of variation in local organisation did in fact emerge . |
| 26 | The Rally will start at 11am and should be a really enjoyable day for detectorists from all over Ireland and any visitors from the mainland . |
| 27 | A fully-fledged sponsorship deal with Oracle UK — the UK division of the world 's largest computer software company , not Channel 4 's teletext service — has allowed the RAF to commission what should be a highly competitive two tonner from racing boat designer Bruce Farr . |
| 28 | Erm , it 's unusual for anybody to have their speed as low as forty miles an hour so I 'm very disappointed in having a radial road that I think should be a fairly fast route out of town thirty mile an hour speed limit . |
| 29 | Secondly , it has been proposed in some quarters that there should be a more general return to the old grammar school system ( and indeed in a few areas these schools remain ) . |
| 30 | Although I accept that it is right for us to do that , a counterbalance should be a more effective way of scrutinising affirmative and negative orders . |