Example sentences of "[modal v] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I ) The scheme should be honestly and fairly operated by both management and labour . |
| 2 | The knotting should be extremely fine and even throughout ; patterns and motifs should be executed with exactness of size and spacing ; and the colours should be even and consistent in tone . |
| 3 | The pressure should be even and there should be no excessive stretching . |
| 4 | Division four is devoted to ‘ Interpretative principles Derived from Legal policy ’ which are , for example , that law should serve the public interest , and that law should be just and not subject to casual change . |
| 5 | The requirement that the reduction should be just and equitable means that there is no single test for determining the level of reduction of damages . |
| 6 | Order 29 , r12(1) simply states that the interim payment should be just and not exceed a reasonable proportion of the damages that the plaintiff is likely to be awarded . |
| 7 | Similarly the products and services you sell should be openly and honestly advertised , packaged and displayed . |
| 8 | It has been accused of actually making policy itself , pronouncing on the basis of what it thinks the law should be rather than what the law is . |
| 9 | I mention these matters because they show that to accept the Woolwich principle in one or other of its forms would appear to involve a choice of what the law should be rather than a decision as to what it is . |
| 10 | The tax base should be widely and fairly evenly dispersed . |
| 11 | The test of incapacity should be either that contained in s94(2) ( where a judge has to be satisfied of the incapacity ) or that in the wider provision of s145(1) ( where the patient is " a person suffering or appearing to be suffering from mental disorder " ) . |
| 12 | Well that should be downstairs and read every night . |
| 13 | That should be downstairs and either one or two pages read every night . |
| 14 | These should be free of leaks and rust , and circulating pipes should be neatly and securely fixed . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the relevant action remains important and the knowledge provided should be carefully and stringently selected . |
| 16 | But it seems to me she should n't be locked up in Broadmoor , she should be somewhere where it 's more supervision , but more freedom where she can walk around gardens and places like that , erm |
| 17 | It should hardly be necessary to mention that every partners ' meeting should be duly and sufficiently minuted and the minute approved at the next meeting . |
| 18 | iii Should be easily and safely accessed by public transport ; |
| 19 | Maybe they should be apart until they have earned the total respect of the rest of the cricketing world . |
| 20 | Discussions about the number of houses in rural areas , their size and density , how many should be publicly or privately owned , owner-occupied or rented , where they should be sited and how they should be designed are often presented as purely technical exercises . |
| 21 | The frequency of maintenance will depend on the harshness of the environment , and in normal circumstances should be once or twice a year . |
| 22 | The response time between the instant at which the operator strikes a key and that at which the reply from the system begins to appear on the screen should be less than one second . |
| 23 | The time from requesting an interactive process ( such as search and replace ) to the appearance of an acknowledgement on the screen should be less than one second . |
| 24 | The wait for longer entries should be less than 24 hours . |
| 25 | terminal response times whilst editing entries will be less than two seconds on average and 95% of responses should be less than three seconds |
| 26 | The ideas should be less than 20 words , dated , and with the name and address of the contributor . |
| 27 | Some manufacturers guarantee CDs for only 30 years but Mr Bert Gall , general manager of optical systems at Philips , said the life of the average disc should be more than 1,000 years , though it could be reduced to 50 if manufacturing was poor and the discs were mistreated . |
| 28 | Length should be more than 2 metres or 6ft , but is not critical . |
| 29 | Bearing in mind that it is essential to include your own product somewhere in the prize structure , consider the size of the top prize vis-a-vis the second tier of prizes , whether there should be more than two tiers of prizes or whether there should be , say , 50 or 100 prizes of equal weight . |
| 30 | It follows that the question " How many substances ? " is strictly meaningless , for given the way " substance " is defined , it is logically impossible that there should be more than one . |