Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] to [verb] " in BNC.

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31 Consideration should be given to arranging for a banker 's guarantee in the firm 's favour .
32 The compartment is easy to clean , but more thought should be given to preventing shower water from finding its way into cupboards .
33 Particular attention should be given to finding and identifying the larger epiphyses as these are more likely to be preserved .
34 Proper attention should be given to ensuring that the conditions for the interview are as relaxed as possible .
35 Consideration should be given to ensuring that the staff assigned to the engagement are not involved in other work carried out in relation to either the purchaser or the target .
36 For vendors who have had no previous contact with KPMG and who appear not to be totally committed to the proposed transaction , consideration should be given to requesting an up front commitment to cover set up costs of the job ( preliminary buyer research etc ) and as contribution to the costs of preparing any documentation .
37 Priority , it was argued , should be given to improving industrial investment and increasing productivity and export levels to ensure economic recovery .
38 It might also be suggested that for officers of an LEA to concentrate time and resources on prescribing how the physical arrangements of classrooms should be attended to represents a rather demeaning view of teachers and heads , whose proper concern such matters undoubtedly are .
39 It therefore seemed appropriate that the Fund should be geared to helping interested young people become involved with Medau , e.g. to set up classes , youth teams , and to encourage teacher-training , etc .
40 The resources , powers and energies of older people need to be positively harnessed and policies should be geared to sustaining their independence for as long as possible .
41 Everything the school does should be geared to providing most effectively and efficiently for pupil learning — be it the structures and systems used to run the school , the deployment of staff , or the use of its other resources .
42 Offers of displays ( time limit 5 minutes ) should be sent to stating apparatus to be used , before rehearsals commence .
43 As is pointed out by Clark , ‘ there is no doubt that writing long courses is time consuming ’ and the participation of the librarian ‘ should be confined to teaching library skills ’ , leaving the programmer and educational technologist to work out the coding of the material .
44 Particular attention should be paid to facilitating communication between the partners , especially in the treatment sessions .
45 In submissions to the Department of the Environment and the Office of Water Services , the industry regulator , the council opposes water metering , which carries serious health consequences , and says attention should be paid to leaking mains , responsible for water losses of up to 38 per cent in some areas .
46 Because of this cost , I would say one of the main requirements in church planting is that the leader of the mother church should be committed to giving away life .
47 To the extent that agreement is reached which goes beyond the provisions of a pre-existing document or displaces the relevant provisions of the Partnership Act , the agreed terms should be reduced to writing to reduce the scope for subsequent dispute .
48 The finance cost should be allocated to accounting periods so as to achieve a constant rate on the amount outstanding .
49 • decide what resources should be devoted to protecting your data
50 The training which is offered by PGCE courses ( whether at polytechnic or university ) should be devoted to giving graduates some understanding of the nature and needs of the children with whom they are to work .
51 A lot of importance should be attached to looking at what sources of information are needed to measure the social and economic performance of the development agencies .
52 The recommendation following from this diagnosis is that more attention should be directed to developing these kinds of competence in initial training , not least with regard to teachers spending more time on becoming more skilled and knowledgeable in their own subject specialisms .
53 File management systems can and should be directed to ensuring that no work is done that will not be paid for by the Legal Aid Board .
54 He understood that heaven and hell were here on earth , and that little by little heaven would drive out hell , and that the efforts of men of intelligence and goodwill should be dedicated to hastening that process ; and that even the word ‘ should ’ , with its implication of duty and overtones of guilt , was in this brave and newly discovered world , inappropriate .
55 Details must be sent to interviewing panels References may need to be taken up .
56 Your whole attention must be directed to balancing the need to produce the best result which you could personally produce , and the one which gives the subordinate a chance to learn through practical experience .
57 Rather , attention must be directed to ensuring that doctors who care for the dying understand and use the medicines and techniques now available .
58 The names of taxa must be adhered to according to the international rules , but it is permissible to anglicise the endings , so that members of the superfamily Trichostrongyloidea in the example above may also be termed trichostrongyloids .
59 A leading liberal , Mr Martin Lee , whose United Democrats won a landslide in elections for the partially-democratic legislature in September , defined the Governor 's job differently : ‘ He must be committed to democratising Hong Kong and to standing up for the territory 's interests , especially in the case of conflict with Britain and China .
60 The Institute of Environmental Assessment ( IEA ) was set up by Dr Tim Coles , who worked for the National Rivers Authority , to act as an impartial and independent watchdog and to raise the standard of environmental impact assessments and statements , which — under European law — must be submitted to planning authorities with planning applications .
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