Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jailed for believing that her country should be run differently . |
| 32 | In the prisoners ' case , letters to the authorities should be worded carefully and courteously . |
| 33 | A good defence lawyer would now be armed with all the mitigating circumstances of your life : mental records , character witnesses , … any reason why your life should be spared . |
| 34 | Indeed , there are some who feel that there should be no border , thinking back nostalgically to days when there was only one domain of art . |
| 35 | They inquire about the who , what , when , where , and why of the art object ; often the object itself suggests which of these questions should be pursued . |
| 36 | The reader 's question of a book or an article should be what function the writing is able or unable to perform ? |
| 37 | He asserted that a modern artist should be in tune with his times , careful to avoid hackneyed subjects . |
| 38 | To be just , that is to say , to justify its existence , criticism should be partial , passionate and political , that is to say , written from an exclusive point of view that opens up the widest horizons . |
| 39 | In 1942 Lu Hsun was quoted by Mao Tse-tung as asserting that the aim of a modern Chinese artist should be : ‘ By selection to accept the historical legacy of Chinese traditional art ; to absorb the best style and technique from foreign art ; and thus to establish a new national art in accordance with the demands and needs of the masses . ’ |
| 40 | It is in this more informal context that his draft for a sixteenth and ironical discourse should be read . |
| 41 | ‘ Whether the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or the Stanze of Raphael should be regarded as the culminating effort of modern art , has long been the subject of controversy ’ ; but they both received double asterisks . |
| 42 | In How Prints Look , first published in 1943 , he wrote ‘ an elementary introduction to the appearances ( the outward and visible signs ) of prints ’ , and cautioned that : ‘ Most of the time spent over it should be given to looking at its pictures . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ The critic , I hold , should be loyal enough to his own impressions to confess to what is probably due to his own defects . |
| 44 | Proust took the view that writers should be judged by their works alone , rather than be interpreted through biography . |
| 45 | Given Rodin 's collaboration with his photographers , these old photographs go far in answering the question from which points of view and from what distances they should be seen . |
| 46 | The art critic is thus bound to consider with care what standards of comparison should be used . |
| 47 | Incidentally , the good art critic should be the reader 's friend in refusing to be impressed by art market prices . |
| 48 | This comparison may form the crucial part of a description ; later on , using comparison as a criterion , that a portrait should look like the sitter , that landscape should look natural , and the objects in a still life should be identifiable , a critic can use it as part of an evaluation . |
| 49 | A journalist politician , Meredith Herbert , is made a minister — perhaps in order that he should be damaged by having to deal with the people on the streets ; he is , perhaps , physically beaten up . |
| 50 | He reverts to the point with the analyst : ‘ Supposing I did n't have what a child objectively should be entitled to … ’ . |
| 51 | It should be seen for what it was , and especially by those who feel like regretting its erasure , and alleging that its replacement has made an environment which may be even worse — of tower blocks filled with heroin and despair . |
| 52 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 53 | It is not surprising that the Czech novelist Josef Skvorecky should be keen on My First Loves . |
| 54 | It seems appropriate that the language of Four Quartets should enter the novel at one point — appropriate , too , of course , that it should be mocked . |
| 55 | You should be aware of this period and I recommend reading all four plays and also The Theatre of George Devine by Irving Wardle . |
| 56 | Application for a grant should be made at the same time as the application for an audition in order that you can be sure of your position should you be fortunate enough to be offered a place . |
| 57 | You will now perhaps be wondering whether or not you should be coached for your audition . |
| 58 | To scan , Semiramis should be pronounced SeMIRamis not SEMiramis . |
| 59 | I do n't rise sooner , because 't is the worst thing in the world for the complexion ; nat that I pretend to be a beau ; but a man must endeavour to look wholesome , lest he make so nauseous a figure in the side-bax , the ladies should be compelled to turn their eyes upon the play . |
| 60 | I did not believe a newspaper should be part of the apparatus of the state ; we are not a totalitarian society . |