Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a corollary to the undifferentiated nuclear deterrent , the British became increasingly insistent from 1954 that Nato 's forces in Central Europe should be limited to a trip-wire role . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that in such cases , the offender 's benefit should be channelled to a general victim compensation fund . |
| 3 | However to deliver high concentrates over a moderately large area of irregular equipment a sprayer should be adjusted to a fine jet . |
| 4 | After that visit , Mr Rikanovic suggests that ‘ because court proceedings like this one can last two to three years and be very expensive , especially in the U.S. , the case should be moved to a Swiss court where the whole proceeding would be faster , more efficient and much cheaper ’ . |
| 5 | In serious cases , consideration should be given to a brief period of suspension while the case is investigated and this suspension should be with pay . |
| 6 | ( iv ) If the right to sue in libel should be extended to a local government authority it could not logically be withheld from any government authority having separate legal personality . |
| 7 | A defence motion filed on the same day , however , caused consternation with the claim that Noriega was a US prisoner of war who should be transferred to a neutral third country for trial . |
| 8 | Administrative control of the airwaves should be transferred to an independent non-governmental organ . |
| 9 | Light fittings in the garden should be connected to a separate circuit , from a spare fuse ‘ way ’ on the main consumer unit and protected by a residual circuit device ( RCD ) ( see Safety first ) . |
| 10 | If we recall , the main advocate of scientific management , F.W. Taylor , argued that pay should be related to an individual worker 's output . |
| 11 | There are sometimes signs of strain , as in the clumsy development of a conflict between husband and wife in Mandy ( 1952 , The Crash of Silence in US ) over whether or not their deaf-and-dumb daughter should be sent to a special school . |
| 12 | Brightly coloured coats , shirts and trousers should be tailored to a tight fit ; an elaborately decorated scarf should encircle his waist and hold a dagger : ‘ With a monthly salary of one hundred rupees let him allot ten rupees for the belt and the embroidered badge if he spends fifty rupees on a fur it will not be prodigality . ’ |
| 13 | The system should be tailored to a particular domain , as accuracy can be much greater in a restricted situation . |
| 14 | Questions , however , might arise about whether a dispute is a valuation/technical dispute to be referred to an expert or one that should be referred to an arbitral tribunal or the court . |
| 15 | The headnote in the Weekly Law Reports is wrong : it states that the lease provided that disputes were to be referred to arbitration , whereas in fact the lease between Ipswich and Fisons said that if Fisons did not accept Ipswich 's terms the matter should be referred to an independent expert . |
| 16 | Each learner should be assigned to a clinical teacher or tutor whom they should consult regarding individual difficulties . |
| 17 | Day-to-day decision making should be assigned to a particular person if this is not carried out by the board member(s) who have overall responsibility for the policy . |
| 18 | Despite the stated belief in the Proposals that students at school should be exposed to a historic range of English writing , there is little attention to works written before the nineteenth century , and certainly no recognition that new relations with history are causing literary texts to be approached in new ways . |
| 19 | In principle , platform numbers should be kept to an absolute minimum . |
| 20 | Those who do not should be escorted to a suitable room where another member of staff should remain with them if possible , if they wish for this . |
| 21 | A proportion of the X-ray pulsars , which are near relations of the black holes , are members of binaries , and so it is reasonable to expect that some stellar black holes should be bound to a visible star . |
| 22 | The hook should be honed to a needle-sharp point , and the barb reduced to enhance penetration . |
| 23 | These recommend that a local child psychiatric team should be involved with all such individuals and their families , and that young people up to 14 years of age should be admitted to a paediatric ward , rather than a general medical or surgical ward . |
| 24 | The butter should be burnt to a mid- tan , sprinkled over the salads , and then the same pan used for quickly boiling four tablespoons of vinegar . |
| 25 | I would have thought that anyone with the most elementary grasp of relative importance would have decided that priority should be accorded to a female child done to death by some scoundrel . ’ |
| 26 | THE DELIBERATE COLD-BLOODED KILLING OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO AN IMMEDIATE END . |
| 27 | At the end of the franchise period the Independent Broadcasting Authority invites tenders and assesses whether the licence should be awarded to an alternative company . |
| 28 | There are increasing demands that the central institutions of the EEC should be reduced to a minimal role , that Member States should be allowed to integrate only so far as they wish , and that it should be possible for a country to remain within a European free-trade zone , but outside a politically united federation — as Norway , Iceland and the other Efta states have done since the establishment of the EEA . |
| 29 | In further discussion the suggestion was made that the best course would be to introduce the Bill without any provision abolishing capital punishment and to explain in the Second Reading debate that , since the question of capital punishment was one on which there were differences of opinion transcending Party lines , the Government felt that the matter should be left to a free vote . |
| 30 | In view of the evident division of opinion among Ministers , it was suggested at the meeting of the Cabinet on 19th June that the best course would be to introduce the Criminal Justice Bill without any provision abolishing capital punishment and to explain in the Second Reading Debate that since the question of capital punishment was one on which there were differences of opinion transcending Party lines , the Government felt that the matter should be left to a free vote on the Report Stage of the Bill . |