Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adj] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mental imbalance should also be excluded , since that seems inconsistent with the idea of an ‘ ordinary person ’ , and the defence should be one of diminished responsibility . |
| 2 | That picture should be one of shared progress , shared failing , of fitness of match or lack of match between policies and funding . |
| 3 | Whatever particular procedures are put in place , any complaint should be capable of speedy and thorough investigation : that is the overriding consideration . |
| 4 | Among policy areas , housing must clearly be responsive to demographic factors and therefore those concerned with housing should be aware of current demographic trends . |
| 5 | Trainees , however , should be aware of alternative layouts . |
| 6 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |
| 7 | In particular , people using busy main line and underground stations , airports and bus terminals should be aware of unaccompanied luggage . |
| 8 | Parents should be aware of increasing strain around exam time and avoid adding to it by , for instance , having too high expectations . |
| 9 | This means that you should be aware of different possible editions of the text . |
| 10 | It should be clear of controlled airspace below 3000ft , cross over a few other roads , through a small town , and have other features such as railways , rivers , canals , lakes , or disused airfields within a mile or two either side . |
| 11 | ( i ) Purpose versus quality and law reform It may be that judicial ingenuity has already introduced into the law , irrespective of its emphasis upon purpose and function , a requirement that the goods supplied should be free of cosmetic defects , thereby introducing an acceptability test . |
| 12 | Whilst we should be sceptical of rhetorical strategies adopted for tactical reasons , the opinions of prominent Tories expressed at the time of the Revolution itself deserve to be given more weight . |
| 13 | Some 42% of them thought that economic liberals were best at handling the economy ( against 18% who thought social democrats were ) ; and 50% thought unions should be independent of social-democratic parties ( though 39% thought the opposite ) . |
| 14 | It also proposed that the proposed European central bank , Eurofed , should be independent of national governments and of the European Community ( EC ) authorities and should have a democratic responsibility . |
| 15 | Such equipment must be capable of automatic function in the very critical period between the outbreak of fire and the arrival of the fire brigade and in the extreme case under discussion should consist of a zoned in-rack sprinkler system and a zoned system of roof ventilation , both operating on sensitive detection devices and tailor made for the individual risk they protect . |
| 16 | There are two basic criteria : firstly an invention must be based on a wholly new idea or involve an ‘ inventive step ’ ; secondly an invention must be capable of industrial ( including agricultural , etc. ) application . |
| 17 | Nobody would dream of trying to lubricate an engine with water , so the water-based slipperiness of snow and ice must be capable of vast improvement . |
| 18 | But there must be hundreds of little firms all over the country who still use it for special jobs . " |
| 19 | The note must be one of unfinished business . |
| 20 | But Tarbes does at least have what must be one of provincial France 's most charming parks , the Jar din Massey , which is on the north side of the town alongside the road for Bordeaux . |
| 21 | But they 're all , they must be all of different armies you know ? |
| 22 | As described elsewhere a region round the edge of the allotted rectangle must be empty of light material . |
| 23 | ‘ In an environment as complex as European telecommunications , we must be wary of short cuts ’ . |
| 24 | Her job might be one of considerable stress and strain , but she really had been incredibly lucky , Laura told herself , not just in being able to afford to buy a penthouse apartment in this large , architectually prestigious warehouse development beside the river at Wapping , but also in managing to persuade her old school-friend Julie to come and share the apartment with her . |
| 25 | These might be indicative of periodic visitations by individual mosaicists . |
| 26 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 27 | However , there is another sense in which syntactic analysis might be independent of semantic and pragmatic analysis , and it is this which we discuss in the next section . |
| 28 | While different perspectives might be characteristic of different groups , a realm of knowledge utilized by all is that of everyday life . |
| 29 | It 'll be full of old faggots and dickheads |
| 30 | The Registrar of Civil Appeals appreciated that the issue could be one of extreme urgency , but was assured that it was not . |