Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [adv] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Scottish Office spokesman said : ‘ Justice must not only be seen to be done — but heard to be done . ’ |
| 2 | He meant , of course , that anything beautiful , anything worthwhile , should not just be left to experts — we should all be in there enjoying it , taking part in it . |
| 3 | Co-operation and co-ordination should not therefore be restricted to the library sector — it should reach out . |
| 4 | Paul counsels that believers should not knowingly be married to those who are not followers of Christ . |
| 5 | But the same rates of interest should not necessarily be paid to non-residents and residents alike . |
| 6 | News of a proposed relocation should not only be communicated to employees but should also be given to suppliers and customers . |
| 7 | But it must n't just be left to the activists to recruit . |
| 8 | I should n't even be talking to you . |
| 9 | So I 'd tell people that I should n't really be listening to them , and they 'd get quite upset … |
| 10 | I do not for my part find the objections in principle to be strong and I would certainly be prepared to agree the rule should no longer be adhered to were it not for the practical consideration to which I have referred and which my noble and learned friend agrees to be of real substance . |
| 11 | Er in very briefly and I shall er expand the argument a min in a minute , my amendments five , eight and eleven provide that the size of a police authority should no longer be restricted to sixteen members , but should be er er by order er a somewhere between sixteen and twenty-four members and that two-thirds of those members should be er appoint er er amen appoint appointed by local authorities in the area concerned . |
| 12 | This argument was persuasively propounded by the director of the Hastings Center for Medical Ethics , who concluded that ‘ … after a person has lived out a natural life span [ eg , into the late 70s or early 80s ] , medical care should no longer be oriented to resisting death … [ but ] will be limited to the relief of suffering ’ . |
| 13 | As regards the substantial outside assistance to the Western Isles , one wonders whether a small part of it might not usefully be redirected to subsidising the high costs of transport between them and the mainland . |
| 14 | The thought of what they might even now be doing to Ruggiero Miletti took the sparkle and warmth out of the morning and made Zen realize how exhausted he was . |
| 15 | We 'll very likely be burned to a crisp the minute we get in there . |
| 16 | In these circumstances , rape by a husband might very well be thought to be more disturbing in its effects than rape by that classic stranger leaping from the shadows . |
| 17 | It will also be important to commission long-term studies of the career progression of Compact graduates and this may more properly be offered to professional researchers , perhaps located in higher education . |
| 18 | This will record any restrictive covenants that may be set out in full in the body of the certificate or may more commonly be referred to in a transfer deed , which may be sewn into the back of the certificate . |
| 19 | With the help of genetic finger-printing and the composite embryo techniques the experiment involved , extinct species such as the Dodo may once again be brought to life from tissue preserved in museums . |
| 20 | With the help of genetic finger-printing , extinct species such as the Dodo may once again be brought to life |
| 21 | Wordsworth also inherits from Locke an intense concern with the visible universe ; although Locke tries to explain all kinds of sensory experience he is most at home with the sense of sight , which could most easily be related to Newton 's optical discoveries . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , I 'd much rather be talking to you than … ’ |
| 23 | It thus came about that , during the process of a boy 's adjustment to public school , two very powerful and not very compatible needs — the need for power and the need for love — were grossly stimulated , in an environment where their satisfaction could not easily be assigned to the usual separate compartments of life . |
| 24 | Once the vegetational cover of the hard schists was destroyed they could not easily be restored to cultivation . |
| 25 | ( A suggestion made by Alasdair MacIntyre that emotivism is promising only as an account of the use of ethical words in a society lacking shared values could not reasonably be extended to the attitudinism I have described . ) |
| 26 | In its manifesto , the Ulster Unionist Party said : ‘ We can not accept as stable any system of governance which could not equally be applied to any other regional entity within the UK . ’ |
| 27 | None of this shows , of course , that the folk theories , even if false , are not well and truly in consciousness ; indeed if they were not one could not truly be said to be working with a false theory of the mind ( unless theory became no more than a structure of , possibly unconscious , assumptions ) . |
| 28 | As I said , Goreng had to shoot some after a desertion so large that it could not possibly be ascribed to the category of MIAS . |
| 29 | He was not certain of the exact meaning of the word , but he knew without doubt that it could not possibly be applied to him . |
| 30 | " only result seemed to shew that the parents of Stockport families preferred a cheap commercial education to a more expensive higher intellectual one and that the latter was necessarily more costly and that the Grammar School fees could not possibly be reduced to the level of the Technical School fees , that School being subsidised by Excise Duties and Government Grants to the amount of double the fees received from Scholars . " |