Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Five minutes ought to be an outside target for recording ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 32 | This suggests that such states may in fact occur in other situations such as the ones they suggest ( e.g. taking a walk or engaging in a routine activity ) . |
| 33 | Michel Gien , chairman of EurOpen , points to recent examples of the private sector following government procurement policy as evidence that European business is showing interest : decisions such as that by a group of car manufacturers led by Peugeot and Renault to specify certain open systems criteria in contracts should in turn have knock-on effects for open systems take-up . |
| 34 | The teaching of study skills should of course obviate the problems that arise in assignments and projects , but generally this provision has been made at a later stage of the pupils ' school career , at the sixth-form level , when a recognized amount of their time is allocated to private study . |
| 35 | It seems logical to suppose that wilder and wilder swings must in the end get out of control . |
| 36 | The quality of the finished products should at least match the standards of comparable outside bodies . |
| 37 | The majority considered that such cases should in future be dealt with under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 , s.3(1) , which makes it a crime to procure a woman by false pretences or false representations to have unlawful sexual intercourse in any part of the world and that the penalty for this offence should be raised from two to five years ' imprisonment . |
| 38 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 39 | If Christianity is true and if religion affects culture , then non-Christian religions , whose creeds must at some point involve the denial of some aspect of Christian truth , will reveal cultural problems resulting from inconsistencies which are impossible to reconcile given their religious postulates . |
| 40 | Mr Howard Davies , controller of the commission , said yesterday that local authorities should by now have overcome the administrative difficulties of housing benefit changes . |
| 41 | In addition to current and capital accounts , appropriate local authorities must by law maintain separate accounts dealing with such services as housing and transport . |
| 42 | Old deeds can be very useful for such a purpose , and certainly any containing plans should in general be retained . |
| 43 | Even so , there is a note of baleful realism in his injunction that : none of our own sons should in any circumstances cause any [ of our grandsons ] accused before him to be put to death , or corporally mutilated or blinded or tonsured against his will , without lawful trial and inquiry . |
| 44 | Companies make statutory returns to Companies House ; their annual accounts must by law be fuller and more complicated than those of a sole trader or a partnership and must be laid out in a statutory format . |
| 45 | The energetic pursuit of these two policies should in the long run ensure a substantial improvement in the employment situation . |
| 46 | We have decided to hand them over ( Gen Keightley is in touch and on good terms with the Russian general on his right ) , but I suggested that the Russians should at the same time give us any British prisoners or wounded who may be in his area . |
| 47 | The imbalance between the parties does not mean that all disputes ought to be resolved in court , rather it suggests that there may be methods of organising dispute resolution which are fairer for the parties involved . |
| 48 | With the present pace of things these survivors may in a generation 's time become a picturesque memory like the yeoman 's smock . |
| 49 | A more ‘ scientific ’ approach to researching market opportunities ought to be taken . |
| 50 | Opportunities ought to be compared and contrasted . |
| 51 | Dragons ought to be big and green and clawed and exotic and firebreathing — big and green with long sharp … |
| 52 | Wulfstan simply says that warships ought to be made ready every year after Easter . |
| 53 | Different considerations press forward , however , when we move on to the various situations in which known risks ought to be guarded against : bad driving of a motor vehicle may carry an obvious risk of causing death or serious injury , as may bad navigation of a ship or an aircraft , bad driving of a train , setting fire to a residential building , and the handling of firearms . |
| 54 | ‘ The best referees ought to be here , but some of them are not because the SRA is cutting back on everything , ’ said Davies . |
| 55 | Even though it was suggested that such crises may at some point lead to a collapse of the system , this is not inevitable nor even highly probable . |
| 56 | It is difficult to assess market value particularly in relation to goodwill ; much time can be spent in arguing about the measure of damages when the parties ought to simply concentrate on establishing whether or not the breach occurred . |
| 57 | Erm erm can I just say , just on the on the basis of Mr 's map erm I think that proves the point that er that I suggested at the outset of the discussion erm on this issue , that if you look at the distribution of settlements there outside the greenbelt , there 's nothing there that suggests that any of the particular sectors ought to be discounted . |
| 58 | As to the Finale , hardly Mahler 's most inspired movement , listeners ought to be rewarded with an endurance medal if they can survive the 24 minutes of unrelieved turgidity . |
| 59 | The history of administrative ideas and management theory is a history of prescriptive statements about how organizations ought to be structured to achieve their goals ( Abrahamsson 1977 ) . |
| 60 | It comes with 4Mb of RAM as standard , which in my books ought to be bumped up to 8Mb for a server . |