Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have argued previously , this should be through a national market for research , which would be open to research hospitals all over Britain . |
| 2 | Nothing is barred , except that your subject ( which is , note , not the same thing as your deeper theme ) should involve crime of some sort and that your presentation of it should be in a manner that will entertain , which is almost the same thing as saying it should be through a progressing story . |
| 3 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
| 4 | The Royal Commission thought that the police should be under a duty to inform detainees . |
| 5 | This suggests that to the criteria for trust wording a further one should be added : that the words be not only ‘ mediate ’ ( in the sense that they do not attribute property directly to the beneficiary ) but that they should also unequivocally attest the testator 's intention that a trustee should be under a legal obligation to a beneficiary . |
| 6 | ‘ To have intercourse with a woman who is not your wife is , even today , not generally considered to be a course of conduct which the law ought positively to encourage and it can be argued with force that it is only fair to the woman and not in the least unfair to the man that he should be under a duty to take reasonable care to ascertain that she is consenting to the intercourse and be at the risk of a prosecution if he fails to take such care . ’ |
| 7 | In the five years since this judgment , Parliament has shown little interest , although the Labour Party has endorsed a proposal that those in the distribution business should be under a legal obligation to supply any publication requested by their customers — a reform which would require abolition of the rule that distributors can be held responsible for particular defamations of which they have no knowledge but which are nonetheless contained in libel-prone publications . |
| 8 | Perhaps a satisfactory solution would be that a signatory State should be under an obligation to publicise a positive decision not to ratify a treaty . |
| 9 | It can not tell us how wide a managerial layer should be , what the difference in responsibility should be between a manager and a subordinate , or , most important , where the break should come between one managerial layer and another . |
| 10 | ‘ It should be between a hundred and twenty and a hundred and forty . |
| 11 | It is therefore plausible that this pulsar should be detectable as a γ -ray source ; if its γ -ray luminosity is the same fraction of its total energy-loss rate as for the Vela pulsar , then it should be about a factor of 20 less bright than Vela . |
| 12 | Withdrawal should be over an period of time to allow the Northern Irish time to establish a new form of government . |
| 13 | Welfare State International 's street theatre production of the mythologised life of Alfred Nobel , ‘ Lord Dynamite ’ , on April 13 should be worth a visit . |
| 14 | You know and supposedly it should be worth a lot . |
| 15 | No one should be without a kanga or sarong for the summer . |
| 16 | No one writing a report should be without a Roget 's Thesaurus . |
| 17 | It was decided in the spring of 1892 to repair and rebuild the tower and as the Vicar in his letter puts it " To rebuild as an ornament to the village with a good clock in it , to make the fabric itself what it should be for a wealthy parish such as ours " . |
| 18 | Erm we believe that er where in cases of erm misappropriated or fraud , the compensation fund should be for a hundred per cent of what has gone . |
| 19 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
| 20 | And if anyone deserves a full house that night it should be as a tribute to all he 's done for the club . |
| 21 | Highbrook will be at longer odds than she should be as a result of her defeat last time out at Newmarket . |
| 22 | A pretty girl and one that should be with a man , not a girl who should have sat beside a solicitor in a High Street divorce court . |
| 23 | Better she should be with a youngster nearer her own age than with him , who anyway fancied Rose Hilaire . |
| 24 | If children did visit they should be with an adult who could explain the pictures or stop them from seeing the more controversial ones . |
| 25 | It should be with an accent and without an S. |
| 26 | Connection to the electricity supply should be via a weatherproof cable connector to the extension lead . |
| 27 | Court proceedings should be of a civil rather than criminal nature , she said . |
| 28 | The retailer should not sell you the first slice and the second cut should be of a bright , usually pink colour . |
| 29 | It is pointed out that fluorescent lighting in clinical areas should be of a recommended type having colour rendering properties with which the decorative finishes in such areas must also be compatible . |
| 30 | By then , Chapman considered that the all-red jersey looked ordinary , out of tune with the club 's distinction , so he decided that in line with Aston Villa , until then the club with the greatest prestige and tradition behind it , the sleeves should be of a different colour to the rest of the top . |