Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Others take ‘ child-centred ’ — a sniper 's victim of a concept if ever there was one — to mean that there should be no necessary variety in the diet .
2 Dr Koenig says as long as both partners sit down and talk out the decision , there should be no long-term ill-effects on the marriage .
3 He gave detailed instructions for the procedure to be followed if no suitable dissertations were submitted , concluding : ‘ But if no such dissertations , worthy , in the opinion of the said Examiners , of any such reward as aforesaid should be offered for seven years , then a Medal , to be purchased with the said accumulations , shall be offered for the best dissertation on any Veterinary subject thought worthy by the said Examiners of such reward , but at all times the Foot of the Horse is to be the subject preferred , and next to that the nature , causes and treatment of Glanders , and the diseases of the Eye in horses : And if there should be no successful dissertation at the end of seven years , then the amount of the said accumulations shall be disposed of by the said Governors in such manner as they in their discretion may think proper , so as they are applied for the promotion of Veterinary Science ’ .
4 In order that there should be no undue delay , the order of 20 December 1991 contemplated that the foster mother 's application for a residence order should be made , and the necessary preparatory steps taken notwithstanding the pendency of this appeal .
5 capacity at Luton to buy themselves three years extra planning time and therefore very concerned that there should be no undue delay in the er authorities coming to the appropriate decisions on the planning .
6 This report said that there should be no pay-TV programmes .
7 There should be no real problem , because Diphda is considerably the fainter of the two .
8 M79 is in the same field with 41 , and against a dark sky there should be no real problem in locating it , though under moonlight conditions I can not see it without a telescope .
9 It is my view that there should be no automatic parole for people serving substantial terms of imprisonment . ’
10 However , to ensure that the highly regarded ethos of , and future development of , traditional climbing ( involving the use of leader-placed/second removed protection ) is not threatened , it is felt that the use of bolts should be limited to the production of SPORT climbs , ( there should be no retrospective bolting on established climbs for protection or belays , and there should be no minimalist bolting ) .
11 Modernism was played out , and it seemed absurd on all sorts of grounds that there should be no contemporary equivalent to The Faerie Queene or Trollope 's Barchester novels .
12 There should be no absolute freedom for any motorist to drive into the middle of already congested cities free of charge .
13 Otherwise , there should be no adverse effect on the guitar 's action or playability , unless the truss rod is on an extreme setting ( an overtightened rod , for example , would result in fretbuzz were you to change to a lighter gauge ) .
14 Ideally the accumulated paint layers should be no thicker than the masking tape itself .
15 There should be no major reconstruction of the industry while we are in the middle of a recession , which is the worst time for such a reconstruction .
16 They were convinced there should be no long periods of separation .
17 There should be no long pauses — as you are only listening at this stage
18 Does the Secretary of State agree that most politicians and Church leaders have asked that there should be no tit-for-tat shootings ?
19 Communist fractions , of course , remained in being but they did not breach the basic principle of British trade unionism that there should be no separate organizations based on ideology or religion and standing in opposition to the TUC .
20 If all the weeds and garden loam are dug out when the drive or path is laid , there should be no serious problem with weeds .
21 Since it is essential , not only that the glue should be heated to about 150°C. but also that there should be no appreciable gap or space in the joint , the gluing operation had , in practice , to be carried out in a heated hydraulic press .
22 It should be no other way ( there is no other way ) .
23 Indeed , the CLRC recommended that the age should be no lower than 21 .
24 They show convincingly that the belief in women 's capacity for boring and repetitive work is part of industrial folklore : if it were true , turnover rates should be no higher in industries which offer such work than in those where the work is more intrinsically interesting .
25 The underlying rate of inflation is expected to range as high as 4 per cent over the next three years , while average pay settlements should be no higher than 1.5 per cent in the public sector , perhaps 2.5 per cent in the private sector .
26 The seeming gains made by the Liberals in the negotiations before the Cabinet agreed to an election — that there should be no joint manifesto , and no pledge to introduce tariffs , merely an impartial inquiry — turned out ( as might have been expected ) to be worthless .
27 Each room should have a centre light which can be switched on before entering it , as well as table lamps , and there should be no trailing wires or flex that the elderly person could trip over .
28 For Behaviouralists , the path to theory started with what was observable , and strict Behaviouralists held that there should be no non-observable elements in the theory at all .
29 BRITAIN shares the Soviet Union 's concern that there should be no headlong rush into German reunification , the Prime Minister , as well as the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , told the Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevardnadze yesterday .
30 But rationality requires that there should be no systematic element in the prediction error .
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