Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have often wondered why it should be such a primitive machine in spite of all its modern gadgets . |
| 2 | If the husbands ask why there should be such a penalty , then I can only answer that it is because Parliament has enacted as it did . ’ |
| 3 | The arrangement of goods should be such that heavy items and liquids are kept at the lowest levels to avoid unnecessary lifting and to reduce the effect of spillage or container fracture . |
| 4 | The ‘ depth ’ of the lines is equally as important as the positioning and it should be such that the arms can almost be extended when hooked in . |
| 5 | On the contrary , the conditions governing pension should be such as to encourage every person who can go on working after reaching pensionable age , to go on working and to postpone retirement and the claiming of a pension . ’ |
| 6 | Her emotional maturity should be such that she does not have to gratify personal needs at the patient 's expense . |
| 7 | They may also ensure that essential standards of work and conduct are upheld , although the school 's management and organisation should be such that they need be used only exceptionally . |
| 8 | In a similar way the layout of the type and the distribution of print and space should be such that the reader reads easily but is not made aware of the amount of ‘ leading ’ ( the white between the lines of type ) or the spacing of the words . |
| 9 | The election was required by law , and if anyone thought it odd that there should be such trouble over elections to a chamber that now met only to ratify decisions taken elsewhere , then they kept the notion to themselves . |
| 10 | The Christian should be such a person . |
| 11 | My policy , which I believe the committee accepts , is that our regulatory process should be such that any other committee or body appointed to replace us ( should that ever happen ) would adopt the same procedures because they were unable to see a better , fairer way of doing things . |
| 12 | It is not clear why there should be such a high proportion of woodworking tools from Kent , especially the cemetery at Sarre beside the Wantsum Channel , but it may reflect ship-building and repairing as much as more general carpentry . |
| 13 | It is a commonly understood element of the rights of prisoners that prison conditions should be such as to maintain life and health . |
| 14 | The appeal of this lies , I suggest , in the fact that if we imagine a beautiful object , we can not help thinking it good that there should be such a thing . |
| 15 | The response of the system should be such that the users are not required to wait during text manipulation . |
| 16 | Restart facilities for off-line processes should be such that no more than four hours of normally processed text are lost as a result of a malfunction of equipment or software . |
| 17 | The Royal Commission ( 1949 , Chapter 15 ) while uncertain that the trend of ‘ national intelligence ’ really was downwards , felt that ‘ it is clearly undesirable for the welfare and cultural standards of the nation that our social arrangements should be such as to induce those in the higher income groups and the better educated and more intelligent within each income group to keep their families not only below replacement level but below the level of others ’ . |
| 18 | That there should be such a variety of species of one kind of creature astounded him . |
| 19 | We conclude that a standing committee for library and resources should be a feature of the structure of every secondary school and that its membership should be such as to permit some cascade effect on the development of resources , syllabuses and teaching methods throughout a school . |
| 20 | Service reservoirs or tanks are usually available , but the method of distribution should be such as to give ample supplies in , say , the late morning or afternoon . |
| 21 | It will then be the responsibility of the Department of Social Security to take out a maintainance order against the father , although the form of the order should be such that the order continues to operate when the mother leaves welfare . |
| 22 | 4 Make a rough diagram of your design and determine whether it is appropriate to the size of the site , e.g. a herb border on the grand scale will not be successful in an area 3 x 3 metres ( 10 x 10 ft ) ; in other words the proportions of the design should be such that there is room to make the most of them in the area concerned . |
| 23 | And it should be such , drawn so strongly , that your readers will remember it as vividly as anything in any other sort of crime fiction . |
| 24 | If one believes that industries should be owned by the government then one will argue that the level of taxation should be such that , taken with the government 's other financial resources , it should provide capital for investment wherever the government considers it necessary . |
| 25 | As indicated in Chapter 6 , the positioning and performance of automatic sprinkler systems should be such as to be capable of ultimate extinguishment and total cooling rather than the intermediate achievement of control , leaving a residual but still severe fire fighting problem . |
| 26 | Sail area should be such that you can reef at about 20 knots apparent with a crew of two . |
| 27 | The difficulty was that there was no agreement about the signs , and down to the seventeenth century no strong feeling that there should be such agreement . |
| 28 | It should be such fun . |
| 29 | The structure of courses should be such that the majority would require a form of integrated study such as that described in the Grouped Course Scheme within existing TEC policy . |
| 30 | As was the case under the previous law , there is no power to ban specific as opposed to classes of marches , or all marches , and a proposal to the effect that there should be such a specific power was rejected , on the grounds that it would place the police in a situation where they would be subject to allegations of political motivation and partiality whenever they exercised the power to seek a ban on a particular march . |