Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Importantly , no settlement figure is given in the application , commonly heard before the registrar , but the facts will be set out in an affidavit , and medical reports , if relevant , and counsel 's opinion if taken , should be available to be shown to the court .
2 erm In principle it should be possible to be able to speak into a microphone , or to write on a pad , with a pencil , and the computer would be connected to the microphone or the pad and would take in and interpret what you 've done , without having to learn this rather clumsy method of putting things in one letter at a time .
3 I take the opportunity of the publication of your paper to draw attention to these small details , with respect to which I have never moved myself , because until they interest others in the neighbourhood i should be sorry to be supposed to move in them for any interest of my own .
4 I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English .
5 I suppose I should be grateful to be a white man .
6 Every dancer has got a different job to do on the road — as if dancing were n't difficult enough — but you know what most people would say : ‘ It 's art , it 's dance , it 's Britain , you should be grateful to be doing it at all ’ .
7 The new bill suggests that coins containing 0.5% precious metal or over , and objects containing 5% or over , should be eligible to be classed as Treasure Trove .
8 If the praise is genuine , the giver should be able to be specific .
9 A text section of one million characters should be able to be copied from or loaded to the system within five minutes .
10 The chief specification is that corresponding entries from OED and the Supplement should be able to be called up together to the screen or other outputting device .
11 Appropriate action must take place at once — you are dealing with realities , not wish-fulfilment , so you should be able to be sympathetic but firm .
12 However , it puts well , I think , the case that the real basis of any public relations solution should be able to be captured in a few words which reflect the concept involved .
13 Ideally , both the full score and individual parts should be able to be printed from the same file .
14 calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ;
15 calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ;
16 calculation and/or graphical exercises : the exercises for the various Learning Outcomes can be combined or carried out after each Learning Outcome ; within each exercise each performance criterion should be able to be clearly distinguished ;
17 The ECJ established that goods which adhered to the national rules and regulations in the member state in which they were produced , should be able to be sold in any member state without need to adhere to the rules and regulations governing the production and sale of the good in the importing member state .
18 Contracts should be able to be approved by the buyer 's conveyancer as soon as a satisfactory survey has been concluded , a satisfactory set of responses received from the seller 's conveyancer concerning the Protocol documentation , and a loan has been agreed where applicable .
19 I think there should be a public enquiry and everybody should be able to be represented and put their own views .
20 erm The other expedient which he suggested , so far as I know , although I do n't believe there 's been any sociological research into this , is that people should become more tolerant of adultery , and that occasional adventures should be able to be reconciled with monogamous marriage .
21 You should be happy to be rid of them . ’
22 As grandparents they should be free to be detached , and to give time and care of a different and special kind , which harassed and busy parents are often not able to provide .
23 What the child reader must be alive to is that the questions are in Carrie 's mind .
24 Faith in the paramountcy of the market must be consistent to be persuasive .
25 This folder must be available to be presented to the NEBE at the time of the final theoretical examination .
26 Nick said , ‘ It must be nice to be so young that when you 're tired it only makes you look prettier . ’
27 ‘ It must be nice to be wanted .
28 It must be great to be a bird — you know , just flying over people and buildings and that .
29 It must be great to be a human , Grimma thought , as thorns the length of her hand tore at her dress .
30 ‘ In that case , it must be possible to be violently attracted to someone on sight .
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