Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [vb pp] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the issue of 3 December 1971 The Sun commented upon a parliamentary report that the members of the Royal Family should be granted large increases in their allowances . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the absence from the Children Act 1989 of any express provision that applications be made either inter partes or ex parte connoted the availability of either course in appropriate circumstances ; that on a true construction the court 's powers conferred by the Act of 1989 had not been abrogated by the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 so that rule 4.4(4) did not preclude the making of an ex parte application for a residence order , although normally applications should be made inter partes ; that the judge therefore had jurisdiction to make such an order and , under section 11(7) of the Act , to attach such directions as might be appropriate ; and that , accordingly , in the exceptional circumstances , the court would make an interim residence order to which directions would be attached for the return of the child to the former matrimonial home and for all the children to remain in the father 's care until the inter partes hearing of the father 's applications ( post , pp. 116B , D–E , F , G–H , 117A–E , F–H ) . |
| 3 | WWF proposes that environmental protection and the eradication of poverty should be made explicit objectives of the MTO , and that non-governmental organisations should be given consultation rights , enabling them to make submissions to investigations of trade disputes . |
| 4 | The best solution from my point of view is simply to recognise that rivers are part of the natural heritage of our country and that they should be made public rights of way , just as footpaths are . |
| 5 | In a new charter for cleaner buses , Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) urges that bus companies should be given financial incentives to fit new engines to comply with EC emission standards expected to be introduced in 1995 . |
| 6 | Householders should be given separate receptacles , for their wastes of food , plastics , paper and tins and bottles . |
| 7 | They should be given additional resources . |
| 8 | The precise nature of the tax incentives remains to be decided , but it appears the ECMT is proposing that motor manufacturers should be given clear incentives to make more environmentally friendly vehicles . |
| 9 | The only appropriate demands that we can make , as we have already remarked , is that we should be given clear examples where they are or are not at work , and that we should be shown how they interact with one another and with more complex factors in ways that lead to verifiable claims about data . |
| 10 | Trainees should be given basic skills and then choice could be made later on as something forced on the individual by the structure of the labour market . |
| 11 | The proposal has drawn strident criticism from environmental groups , who have demanded that the areas in question — Mizieb and I-Ahrax in Mellieha — should be designated national parks . |
| 12 | In 1710 the marquis de Torcy , the reforming last foreign minister of Louis XIV , managed to secure that six should be paid annual pensions of 1,000 livres while they were unemployed between missions , and thus given some financial security ; but this was a gesture with limited effect . |
| 13 | The problem for the State is , that while the family sent a letter in 1942 declaring its intention to reach an agreement over what should be considered inalienable heirlooms and therefore assured a permanence in the family 's headquarters of Schloss St Emmeram in Regensburg , this agreement was never actually realised . |
| 14 | Some fences can be deceiving from a distance , so the horse must be given clear aids as to what to expect so he is not taken by surprise . |
| 15 | If any of the following requirements have not been met , the audit report should state that fact : proper accounting records must be kept proper returns must be obtained from branches not visited by the auditor the accounts must be in agreement with the accounting records and returns all information and explanations considered necessary for the audit must be obtained . |
| 16 | For motivation to be sustained there must be PERCEIVED EQUITABLE REWARDS which will then engender SATISFACTION . |
| 17 | Words possessing more than one meaning or usage must be allocated multiple entries within the lexicon . |
| 18 | Before these precursors can be incorporated into viral DNA , they must be phosphorylated Certain viruses ( the herpes group for example ) produce an enzyme called thymidine/ deoxycytidine kinase , which is responsible for adding a phosphate group to these two precursors . |
| 19 | But every sign now is that to shortages , inflation and a runaway budget deficit must be added serious shortfalls in output of coal , oil and nuclear energy . |
| 20 | To these possibilities must be added miscellaneous positions not capable of concise description , in building societies , insurance companies , and so on . |
| 21 | Raymond Burns and the vastly experienced Garth McGimpsey must be considered virtual certainties . |
| 22 | Scott Cunningham has developed the practice of magical aromatherapy , where he uses these natural aromas for effects such as stimulation of the mind , protection , purification and psychic awareness , thereby attaining what might be called magical states of consciousness . |
| 23 | The problem is to distinguish this type of rejection of psychoanalytic propositions — the result of the feelings aroused in people by uncomfortable material — from what might be called genuine objections of a kind which are reasoned and scientific . |
| 24 | It might be thought , for example , that the arbitrator is typical of adjudicative authorities , and that what might be called legislative authorities differ from them in precisely these respects . |
| 25 | Let us deal first , with what might be called methodological problems . |
| 26 | Although nowadays a certain amount of mechanical testing is done for what might be called academic reasons , by far the most of it is done for strictly practical ends and in fact a thorough knowledge of the actual strength of its materials is , like drains and income tax , one of the things which no advanced civilization can do without . |
| 27 | Lawyers pointed out that if Newall again lost his appeal over the tape recording , the Crown might be granted full costs . |
| 28 | Our biggest problem is non-attendance authorised by parents for what might be considered unacceptable reasons . |
| 29 | I have so far dealt only with what might be considered extraneous matters which are of little concern to the non-collector , who can read and enjoy a book without worrying about endpapers , half-titles , advertisements and the rest ; though even the ordinary reader must reach a point where bibliographical matters begin to impinge . |
| 30 | All the semantic tallies we have considered so far have been what might be termed pure tallies , in that they have no perceptible semantic connection with any other elements in the language . |