Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Must are preparatory schools , but some keep children to A-level standard .
2 The sessions are all done at pace and the length should be 80 minutes maximum .
3 With regard to day space this has been agreed on a provision of 4m2 per patient and it was also suggested that in addition to providing that space for each resident , there should be extra space to accommodate 2 day patients per sub section .
4 Lenin cites with approval Engels ' recommendation that there should be complete self-government for the provinces , districts and localities through officials elected by universal suffrage and the abolition of all local and provincial authorities appointed by the state .
5 And then at the end , that they should be complete failures .
6 There should be complete silence except that the leader should say ‘ No ’ quietly to everything she touches until she touches the chosen object when everybody shouts ‘ Yes ’ .
7 There should be easy access to toilets .
8 The survey was conducted by Hospital Doctor on 200 doctors , and asked whether the doctors felt that there should be greater curbs imposed on a doctor 's right to determine the survival of a grossly handicapped newborn baby .
9 Given the Community 's capacity to help other European countries — not only the successful ones who now wish to join , and are already beginning to apply , but the east European countries , with all their problems — it is extraordinary and perverse to suggest that there should be greater disunity in the Community at the very moment when greater aid and support is called for .
10 The combination of changing employment patterns with the increase of numbers of frail elderly people in society , make it appear highly desirable that there should be greater flexibility in the roles allocated to men and women , in relation to domestic arrangements and external employment .
11 If the organisation is faced with rapid change , and therefore uncertainty in decision-making , there will be a greater reliance on local knowledge of events and ‘ on-the- spot ’ decisions , so there should be greater decentralisation than in a relatively static organisation in a stable environment .
12 Inbuilt grant resources for dissemination need to be sought , time must be allowed for lay versions of research to be written as well as academically respectable reports , and there should be greater opportunities for co-operation with policy makers and practitioners in discussions concerning implications of research .
13 Like a vacuum cleaner should be five amp , a deep fat fryer should be thirteen amp and various
14 These should be major counselling objectives , and encouraging an ageing person to be part of such a group would indeed constitute a major counselling success .
15 Profit centres should be logical groupings of work by type or by geographical distribution with significant directly attributable costs in relation to the whole business .
16 The price on the net list should be six pound eighty .
17 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 .
18 It should be such fun .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Moreover , if Sgr A is merely a luminous neutron star , the uniqueness of Sgr A is surprising given that there should be many neutron stars in the nucleus .
22 Half a century later , given the further demise of party and the massive presence of television in American life , it is even more imperative that presidents should be good communicators .
23 Should be good stuff then .
24 Faith is ‘ a firm assent of the mind ’ , for which there should be good reason .
25 ‘ By so doing , you could place yourself in danger , my lady — that should be good reason enough . ’
26 To the psychologist searching for the determinants of personality this sort of outcome is disappointing ; to the parent , on the other hand , it should be good news .
27 Thus results from passive avoidance and imprinting might begin to converge , which should be good news for both labs .
28 That should be good news for Jack Russell but bad news for Mike Atherton , who had looked favourite to partner Gooch if Stewart kept wicket and batted in the middle order .
29 In the subsequent layout , road needs and road widths had to be assessed ; there should be good access to the rear of houses ; the proper orientation of houses should be secured ; design elements should incorporate the cul-de-sac , courtyard and green .
30 Parents are anxious that what their children ‘ pick up ’ at school should be good example , and in choosing a school they customarily place considerable weight on this kind of consideration .
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