Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 And then at the end , that they should be complete failures .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 Corms should be two inches below ground , indented side upwards .
11 I suggest that the erm ticket price should be two pounds fifty as it is now and that the concessionary price should be increased to two pounds .
12 Sign it , so there should be two signatures in that little bit of number three .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 This in turn prompted a reconsideration of the proposal , rejected in its Working Paper , that there should be two degrees of indecent assault .
16 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 .
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 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 .
19 Is it right that there should be two classes of old people in this important respect ?
20 They decided Up Holland should be two words because people called it ‘ Uffoland ’ .
21 There should be new types of pavement design and extra research into the relative costs of concrete and bitumen roads .
22 Was the RHA aware of the conclusions of the Camden and Islington working party on Friern , that there should be new buildings for the old long-stay population on the Friern site , and that the hospital should be developed as a specialist psychogeriatric and teaching service ?
23 The statutory objective is that there should be new ways of providing legal services and a wider choice of providers .
24 Applicants for both posts should be practising Christians in agreement with the Trust 's aims and purposes .
25 ‘ It is plainly in the interests of the more efficient administration of justice that there should be split trials in appropriate cases , as even where the decision on the first part of a split trial is such that there will have to be a second part , it may be desirable that the decision shall be appealed before incurring the possibly unnecessary expense of the second part .
26 There should be closer links , but only if there are equal rights for all people in South Africa .
27 On the other hand , there should be harmonised bands for temporary unidirectional fixed and mobile links — at least in the short term .
28 All members should be individual members
29 There should be electoral regions , in which three quarters of the seats should be filled as at present by constituency members and one quarter by additional members .
30 In addition , opinions are canvassed on whether there should be bands of scale charge ; whether there should be lower charges for older cars and a special regime for classic cars ; whether the distributional impact of the change would be inequitable , given that it would be revenue-neutral ; and whether free car fuel should continue to be determined by engine size .
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