Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [num] " in BNC.

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1 nin , must been ninety , nineteen fifty I think , yes , we had eight years before our first
2 They say , in effect , ‘ If thou wishest to feel good about thyself , thou shalt be X and Y and Z. And conversely when thou findest thyself being not-X or not-Y or not-Z , thou shalt pay for thy transgression with a loss of self-esteem . ’
3 Now you know , wi with lots of experts in this field and so we 're we only simply put that forward as a , a general suggestion whether it should be one-third from them and two- thirds from the pension funds , you know , I do n't think is a matter of great importance to us , but we do think that the should perhaps be a bit spread , spread a bit more widely than just into the pension funds .
4 The sessions are all done at pace and the length should be 80 minutes maximum .
5 should be thirty .
6 Right it should be thirty three .
7 Like a vacuum cleaner should be five amp , a deep fat fryer should be thirteen amp and various
8 Urwick concluded that the maximum management span of control should be six , when the work of subordinates interlocks .
9 However , in cases of specially significant development , local authorities should be able to require an ‘ impact study ’ , and in these cases the time-limit should be six months .
10 Erm , looking through the rest of the paper , there 's a mistake in paragraph three , where it says cost of inspections was six hundred and fifty hundred , that should be six hundred and fifty thousand .
11 yes yes I think it should be six , twelve , five , one , nine
12 The price on the net list should be six pound eighty .
13 there should be six of these , there 's only four
14 They will look with justified suspicion , therefore , at Jacques Delors 's suggestion yesterday , that there should be two constitutional conferences next year — one to transfer powers from the national state to the EC on economic and monetary policy and the other , later , to tackle democratic control .
15 But the difficulty with this discussion is that it lacks a firm point of reference because it can not be taken for granted that there should be two levels of offence , rape and procuring sex by threats .
16 Corms should be two inches below ground , indented side upwards .
17 However , I feel there should be two grades because of the difficulty of actually getting the game started with one service in some areas of junior or park tennis .
18 For this reason , we recommend that there should be two separate targets , one for spelling and the other for handwriting , covering ages 5 to 11 ( levels 1 to 4 ) .
19 It is a puzzle why there should be two main classes of cleavage patterns — radial and spiral .
20 Resolved that this meeting concurs in Apinion [ sic ] with the said Committee — that it will be necessary to carry on the Business of this Institution as perfectly as possible , that there should be two Professors appointed & that as soon as the proposed plan for the College is executed , which , from the Encouragement already given , 't is hoped will be speedily accomplished — The members will avail themselves of the Offer made by the Committee and refer the Merits of Candidates for the second professorship to their investigation .
21 ‘ It sends out the wrong signal that there should be two groups on the board of directors — the doers and the checkers , ’ said Peter Morgan , the IoD 's director general .
22 Is it right that there should be two classes of old people in this important respect ?
23 There should be two heaters — not heaterstats — in this tank , ideally governed by an external thermostat so that if one overheats they are switched off , and if one fails the other will probably maintain a safe heat .
24 They decided Up Holland should be two words because people called it ‘ Uffoland ’ .
25 The STUC Women 's Committee 's comments to the Scottish convention contained much of the above , including a recommendation that there should be two MPs from each constituency ( ie , one man and one woman ) .
26 Sign it , so there should be two signatures in that little bit of number three .
27 Thus the temperature increase at high latitudes experienced during global warming should be two or three times greater than the warming experienced in the tropics , where enhanced convection , carrying sensible heat away from the ground , acts as a negative feedback .
28 Yet it recommends that the maximum penalty for such conduct should be two years where the girl is over 13 and under 16 , the same penalty as for sexual intercourse , whereas for consensual buggery the maximum recommended is five years .
29 This in turn prompted a reconsideration of the proposal , rejected in its Working Paper , that there should be two degrees of indecent assault .
30 The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future .
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