Example sentences of "[modal v] be [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people should be supportive of animal welfare , of course , but with the understanding that being in support of animal welfare is perfectly consistent with utilising animals for human preferences and interests . |
| 2 | If we were to count them as well we should be guilty of double- or even triple-counting . |
| 3 | When sailing upwind only three people should be aft of the cabin top . |
| 4 | We should be proud of that . |
| 5 | We should be proud of our productivity record and promote our willingness to adapt our industry to meet the challenge of CAP reform to the needs of today . |
| 6 | Today 's girls should be proud of their natural curves . |
| 7 | The Chenin Blanc grape should be proud of itself , producing a delicate and flowery wine that has a stab of fresh acidity . |
| 8 | We should be proud of the English qualities to be found in writers from Chaucer to Dickens , from Shakespeare to Jane Austen , from Milton to Pope . |
| 9 | US should be proud of Andre |
| 10 | You should be proud of your appearance — and that means a healthy appearance . |
| 11 | No matter how they are dressed up , modernized or staffed by well-meaning people , there is not a single prison in Britain that we can or should be proud of . |
| 12 | We support the views arrived at by the C E C , we should be proud of our title the Labour Party and shout from the hi highest rooftops where we live and work . |
| 13 | The G M B should be proud of this role , however politics and negotiations are all about compromise and not about head-on collisions and we try and avoid these as much as possible . |
| 14 | But the Rastas felt that the language was the African people 's own , that they should be proud of it and should set about improving it " ( 1986a : 44 ) . |
| 15 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond argued Darlington should be proud of its strengths , and looking at problems could drive away new investors . |
| 16 | Many workers were concerned that those recruited should be representative of the community and include more men and people from ethnic minorities , particularly those with language skills . |
| 17 | The criterion governing the choice has been that which has directed Ortiz 's own collecting : aesthetic quality , with the additional requirement that the works of art should be representative of the best of their culture . |
| 18 | That is , the corpus should be representative of the language according to a number of variables ( e.g. time-span , geographical and social range , authorial background , publishing history , discourse model and type ( Sweeney , 1992 ) ) . |
| 19 | The student should be critical of everything observed , as blind acceptance is dangerous . |
| 20 | Your chances of the two being male and female are not very good , but with five or six you should be sure of a pair , unless you are very unlucky . |
| 21 | You should be sure of why you are using quotations ; they should not be used to show off your reading or to give the impression of knowing more than you do . |
| 22 | In such cases the Central Committee will allow under the Legal Advice and Assistance Scheme , meetings and precognitions to establish domicile , but solicitors should be cautious of incurring extensive charges until this preliminary point has been established . |
| 23 | This is self-explanatory and the tenant should be cautious of allowing the landlord to include various prohibited users which may not affect the tenant 's business but could restrict the persons to whom the tenant may wish to assign or sublet the premises . |
| 24 | All applicants for admission from outwith the United Kingdom or European Community , applicants who are temporarily resident in the UK or EC at the time of application and those who have within the past three years spent a period of employment or residence outwith the UK/EC are advised that they should be certain of their status for fee purposes before registering for their courses at the start of the academic year and be certain that they have the necessary funds to meet the appropriate fees , and for subsistence throughout the course of study . |
| 25 | At the time you enter a Deed of Covenant , the covenant should be capable of lasting for more than 3 years , and there should be the intention by you that it does so . |
| 26 | One of the conditions for ascribing to oneself experiences of a mind-independent reality , Kant argued , was that we should be capable of distinguishing between those sequences of perceptions ( if you like , ‘ representations delivered up by the input systems ’ ) which are determined by the movement of objects and those which are determined by our own movements . |
| 27 | Officially a commemoration of the Great Exhibition of 1851 , to demonstrate British achievement in arts , sciences and design , its chief impact was one of surprise that in these depressing times the government should be capable of sponsoring such a fling . |
| 28 | An instrument for structural studies by using ion scattering and recoiling should be capable of varying the scattering ( θ ) , beam incident ( α ) , and crystal azimuthal ( δ ) angles — ie the angle between the primary ion beam direction and the crystallographic axes — ( see Fig. 1 ) ; generating a pulsed kiloelectronvolt ion beam of low fluence ; efficiently detecting ions and neutrals ; and operating in an ultrahigh vacuum ( 10 -10 Torr ) . |
| 29 | Kadish has managed five-electron reductions of C60 ( although theory suggests that this molecule should be capable of accepting up to six electrons into its lowest unoccupied molecular orbital ) . |
| 30 | This firm wrote — ‘ The land is eminently sited for a golf course as it is nicely undulating and the soil dry , and with care and attention should be capable of producing a first-class turf . ’ |