Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument seems to have had some effect , for while the Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked to look more closely at the dollar costs of overseas forces , the Defence Ministry 's view that no further cuts in forces should be sought was accepted . |
| 2 | Contrasting the Soviet and English systems , Muckle points out that traditionally in England the task of working out what subjects should be taught was ‘ replicated in every school ’ . |
| 3 | The requirement that wrappers should be sent was of great importance to the Nestle Co. ; there would have been no point in their simply offering records for 1s. 6d. each . |
| 4 | But their view on how this should be achieved was quite different : correction was to be an applied science whose goal , where feasible , was to be the rehabilitation of individual offenders ( where it was not feasible , segregation or elimination , for the protection of society , was to suffice ) . |
| 5 | Tootal 's is around 35 per cent higher than the group would like , and an interest charge that should be declining was a fifth higher than last year . |
| 6 | the proposition that as 40% of marriages ended in divorce the multiplier should be reduced was rejected . |
| 7 | The suggestion of the 1977 Review that a comprehensive system of periodic review , analysis and assessment of regional policy should be instigated was upheld , leading to the First Periodic Report . |
| 8 | The question of whether a national conference should be held was reportedly also under discussion . |
| 9 | ‘ The question of whether all listed companies should be included was discussed by the committee but — and it 's a hard line , perhaps — if the directors ca n't fulfil the responsibilities of stewardship expected of them , then perhaps they should n't be listed companies . ’ |
| 10 | In the House of Lords on 30 January 1700 , when the Tory Archbishop of York , John Sharp , defended traditional Anglican doctrines of non-resistance and passive obedience , he made it clear that the authority which must be obeyed was the law of the land . |
| 11 | FREEDOM TO ROAM MUST BE GUARANTEED was the headline in the West Highland Free Press the following day . |
| 12 | To worry that your brother might make an unfortunate marriage when at any moment he might be killed was something she found difficult to understand . |
| 13 | This cultural context which affected attitudes towards the city and how it might be planned was built up from a number of sources and expressed in the literature of the day ( Timms and Kelley. 1985 ) . |
| 14 | However hard he strove , his destiny was fixed at birth by his parents ' position , and such limited social mobility as might be achieved was rationalized ( and thus concealed ) in the language of kinship . |
| 15 | One of the earliest detailed discussions of how the artefacts of the period might be dated was provided by Åberg ( 1926 , pp. 149–58 ) , although typically there is no consideration of what such chronology could be used for beyond using it to relate the archaeological data to an historical narrative : |
| 16 | In Siskina , the plaintiff 's major claim for compensation was not itself justiciable in England ; Lord Diplock pointed out that to argue in effect that it could be treated as justiciable because , if it were , an interlocutory injunction might be granted was a logical fallacy , petitio principii ( pulling oneself up by one 's own bootstraps ) . |
| 17 | The only provision of Order 11 under which leave might be given was that dealing with the case where ‘ in the action begun by the writ an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do or refrain from doing anything within the jurisdiction … |
| 18 | The orphans were hungry as well as tired , and the first thing they did when they got to the disused school in Malvern where they 'll be based was to tuck into a slap-up meal . |
| 19 | And yet the process whereby the dutiful , rational , moral citizen could be developed was complex . |
| 20 | Everything that could be polished was polished , but nothing was new , all the furniture and equipment settled into their accustomed places as of long habit . |
| 21 | Until recently , the only means by which this could be achieved was by manual entry , involving many hours of repetitious labour . |
| 22 | His attempts failed , and he came to the conclusion that the best that could be achieved was to specify , so far as one could , which observation statements were implied by which non-observation statements ( see the preface to Carnap , 1967 , and Quine , 1969 , p. 77 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ I first investigated the possibility of studying for an occupational health certificate in 1975 , but at that time the only way that this could be achieved was by full-time studying and I could n't do that because of family commitments . |
| 24 | The socialists maintained , with some justification , that the only way in which real grandeur could be achieved was through long-term economic modernization . |
| 25 | The search for appropriate bodies through which business interests could be represented was not an easy one and has only been achieved either by completely bypassing existing councils or by involving councillors as well as officers in developing new arrangements in a context of financial pressure and legal constraints . |
| 26 | In Aotearoa the concept that land could be possessed was entirely foreign to Maori thinking . |
| 27 | Just how such lack of pity could be justified was not vouchsafed . |
| 28 | In the canal carrying business the number of sons who could be involved was limitless and women and children could help to work the boats . |
| 29 | The condition which had to be satisfied under that Act before a care order could be made was that ‘ his proper development is being avoidably prevented or neglected . ’ |
| 30 | defendant in belief that it was necessary to enter an appearance before a payment into court could be made was not estopped when he sought to have the case dismissed for want of prosecution on discovering that the writ had not9 been served . |