Example sentences of "[modal v] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 1,792 people over the age of 15 questioned by Public Attitude Survey , 7 per cent believed the law should be the exclusive preserve of Christianity . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the monetarist recommends that control of the money supply should be the major concern of the monetary authorities and that such a policy is of paramount importance for the conduct of macroeconomic policy . |
| 3 | The teacher 's role may well and probably should be the major one with computer programs providing plenty of illustrations and challenges . |
| 4 | For those whom we represent — for their employment , standards of living and the standards of their families — those should be the major guides to our thinking on Europe . |
| 5 | The improvement of our management of information should be the major thrust of our information services strategy for the next five years . |
| 6 | The intention is that it should be the major Group priority for two years from September 1991 . |
| 7 | Several said firmly that suitability and fitness should be the only criteria , and that is fine , as far as it goes . |
| 8 | Thus the Statement of Intent proposed that FIFO and weighted average costs should be the only permitted formulae . |
| 9 | Tebbit clarified the position and laid down guidelines that the effect on competition should be the only criterion for deciding whether to block a proposed merger , although in practice this guideline was not always fully adhered to . |
| 10 | It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station . |
| 11 | The Pacific Bell Inc arm of Pacific Telesis Group Inc does not believe that the folks across the Pacific should be the only ones to have universally available full broadband ISDN by the year 2015 , and it says it is discussing forming alliances with cable companies to help in the building of a super data highway in California over the next decade . |
| 12 | It is a peculiarly appropriate irony that this should be the only poem in this group with the Our/ We form , establishing on the grammatical plane a congruence with the semantic one : seen from the outside , held up for inspection , they are united — at the level of mutual deception . |
| 13 | A woman can give something special too but there 's no reason why that should be the only thing that 's given . ’ |
| 14 | Since none of these activities is costless , however , the situation is not quite as clear as suggested by economists who propose that efficiency should be the only goal . |
| 15 | It may well be that arguments could be made that this sense of unreasonableness should be the only mechanism for controlling discretion . |
| 16 | The Software Magazine should be the only publication able to focus a spotlight on support , an area where users really perceive value in an application . |
| 17 | It shows she was unjustly treated and I think that society is wrong to judge ; if she has broken a bond made by God , then he should be the only one to reprimand her for it . |
| 18 | I think Donna should be the only one . |
| 19 | Tennis 1992 — 93 should be the thirteenth year of the club . |
| 20 | Tennis 1992–93 should be the thirteenth year of the club . |
| 21 | For the single specimen , the standard 36″ × 12″ × 15″ should be the absolute minimum tank size . |
| 22 | Immediately after issue the amount attributable to an instrument within non-equity shareholders ' funds should be the net proceeds of the issue . |
| 23 | Greenpeace says the standards applied in Germany , where fridges use up to 50 per cent less energy than elsewhere , should be the European norm . |
| 24 | The vertical plane is referred to , incorrectly , as the CVR : it should be the central vertical plane . |
| 25 | First , he said , ‘ the community itself should be the primary focus , not the police . ’ |
| 26 | In any case , in addictive disease the ideal of a drug-free life should be the primary aim of true help for the primary sufferer and the legality or illegality of any particular drug is irrelevant to that primary aim . |
| 27 | should be the primary person responsible for how the department is working . |
| 28 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) said , the spokesmen got themselves into an even bigger twist over the question whether cost should be the primary basis on which to judge a contract , or whether then to introduce another element so as to ensure that white collar services can be won by the private sector . |
| 29 | Upper gastrointestinal lesions that were able to be treated were often found at endoscopy and this should be the primary investigaton in such patients . |
| 30 | But not too much for James and his pal Andrew , for whom aftertaste should be the least of their worries . |