Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] [is] " in BNC.

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1 The discovery of deaf tutors in a sign language class causes a review of the concept of ‘ the deaf ’ as disabled , since for the first time the student may be in a learning situation where the person whom he feels he should be helping is actually shown to be more competent than he is .
2 Perhaps the one point that should be emphasized is that extreme care should be taken in documentation and interpretation of petrofabrics , as one can be easily misled by what appears to be a straightforward thin section ( Fig. 5.45 ) !
3 The choice of where clients with ulcerated limbs should be treated is extremely important .
4 It is further evidence that the issue of whether top roles should be split is complex , and that prevailing wisdom , which favours splitting the roles , should be challenged — something Rick Greenbury had the courage to do on his appointment as chairman and chief executive of Marks & Spencer .
5 Whether the roles of chairman and chief executive should be split is a secondary issue which can be meaningfully addressed only when the company 's needs have been defined .
6 The court to which an application for a stay of action should be made is the court in which that action is pending and the court can either stay the action or allow it to continue on such terms as it thinks fit ( s 285(2) ) .
7 The identification of these needs and the allowance that should be made is a normative issue , but we may want to deduct items from the definition of income ( e.g. , for the expenses associated with illness or disability ) or to calculate income per equivalent person ( e.g. , allowing for differing family size or age ) .
8 Time of supply Section 3(2) ( c ) states that the precise time to which reference should be made is when " the product was supplied by its producer to another " .
9 However , the question how and by whom such elements in the curriculum should be taught is perhaps relatively easily answered .
10 The need for some kind of frame of reference for thinking about the curriculum , and asking what is and should be taught is most obvious in the schools .
11 At a time when the debate about what should be taught and how it should be taught is being hotly addressed in schools and higher education , new historicist procedures help confront a problem forcefully made by Raphael Samuel :
12 Both need our help , but the help that they should be given is by their own Government , by the full implementation of resolutions 706 and 712 .
13 Thus the spelling unit which maps onto the phoneme is not the letter , but the grapheme , and the term we should be using is ‘ grapheme-phoneme rules ’ ( not letter-sound rules ) .
14 Even if the argument concerning whether semantic knowledge should be incorporated is upheld , there still remains the question of how it should be incorporated .
15 In the light of Government protestations that safety is of the highest order , the idea that that service should be privatised is brought into focus .
16 If the existence of companies should be regarded as premised on ‘ the understanding that their activities are to fulfill our purposes ’ , some idea of how ‘ our purposes ’ should be understood is needed .
17 Not only do horoscopes determine the suitability of a partner for an arranged marriage , even the date that the couple should be joined is left to the astrologer 's discretion .
18 As far as their usefulness as a measure of performance the conclusion that should be reached is that none is superior as we can only measure performance by comparison .
19 What should be questioned is the use to which that additional staffing is put .
20 A classic way of finding out how much of your own job can and should be delegated is to put someone in charge while you are away .
21 What should be said is that there is still a most definite need for research in some neglected , technical areas , but more particularly in integrating the social and economic factors as they occur in a local situation .
22 The way it should be funded is a matter for governments to decide .
23 Ensure that any answer you give is an elegant work of art ; the subject matter of the question will be related to your own studies , but the way in which it should be answered is more related to chess .
24 In some cases , especially those with serious psychiatric disorders , the local adolescent psychiatric service should be involved is early as possible .
25 The question which should be posed is not whether offenders should be permitted to profit from their crimes but whether crime should be profited from by any person .
26 This lack of consensus on the way semantically and grammatically related sentences should be characterized is itself troublesome enough to a sociolinguist seeking guidance from syntactic theory ; but to make things even more difficult , the very notion of semantic equivalence is a disputed one .
27 One of the first things that should be done is to share this with your partner so that your partner can help separate fact from fiction and be sensitive .
28 What should be done is the level of housing allocated to Selby should be assessed in terms of whether it can be satisfactorily accommodated , and if it ca n't then it should n't be allocated .
29 All that should be done is that , if that improbable and unlikely event ever takes place , the courts should decline to enforce the clause .
30 I think the way it should be tackled is speak to about it , say that we still believe that y'know it ca n't go on forever obviously it ca n't go on forever because I think the longer it goes on the worse it 'll become in all honesty
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