Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] [prep] one " in BNC.

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1 There is no reason why the ability to use a washing-machine or a pressure cooker should be limited to one person per household !
2 The Democratic caucus in the House decided in 1971 that members should be limited to one sub-committee chairmanship thereby making it possible for many more congressmen to hold these coveted posts .
3 It should be completed by one person on behalf of all residents at the property .
4 the organization of social insurance should be treated as one part of a comprehensive policy of social progress .
5 When an acute outbreak has occurred the sheep should be treated with one of the benzimidazoles , levamisole or ivermectin and immediately moved to pasture not recently grazed by sheep .
6 Before leaving section I , mention should be made of one defence which is not available .
7 It was surely repugnant to commonsense that in this area of legal activity a local authority should be prosecuted by one of its tenants without first being given the opportunity by that tenant to remedy the consequences of a neglect to repair the dwelling that the tenant occupied .
8 Five hundred globules , one hundred of which should weigh one grain , should be moistened with one drop of this solution .
9 The interior and garden should be seen as one great theatrical whole .
10 Consequently , he proposed that the reporting unit should be defined as the fund and that organizations should be seen as one fund or a series of funds .
11 It is suggested er , by both myself and er my colleague that the matter should be adjourned for one week .
12 It is suggested er by both myself and er my colleague that the matter should be adjourned for one week .
13 Kitchen , bathroom and lavatory floors should be covered with one of the easily cleaned vinyl-type floor coverings , preferably patterned in a mid-shade of the chosen colour .
14 Simulation should be regarded as one tool within the repertoire of the training specialist .
15 She believes that junior doctors could be empowered by longer contracts and proposes that house jobs should be arranged in one year ( or even 18 month ) blocks within single or closely linked units , so that the doctors felt and were recognised as an important part of the service provided .
16 She should be called after one of the saints . "
17 We , and others , recommend that a sample should be obtained after one hour for both routes and are pleased to receive one at all , for it immediately involves the medical microbiologist in the care of the patient , and close cooperation is important .
18 On the back label we state that the product should be drunk within one year of purchase as this is when the product will be at its best .
19 The most significant are that the proposed SAS requires auditors to be active , rather than passive , and to perform procedures specifically designed to identify circumstances which might call into question the appropriateness of the going concern basis ; that the future period which should be considered by both the directors and auditors in assessing the validity of the going concern basis should be extended to one year from the date the accounts are approved by the directors ; and that emphasis is now placed on the need for adequate disclosures in accounts of matters giving rise to inherent uncertainties that affect a company 's ability to continue as a going concern .
20 A&E for the City of London area — services should be rationalised on one site
21 The papers we have in our Archive are essentially the contents of Christabel 's desk when she died — she expressed a wish that they should be sent to one of her nieces , May Bailey , ‘ in the hope that she may come to care about poetry ’ . ’
22 The first M constraints express the fact that each individual undertakes exactly one task and the second M constraints say that each task should be undertaken by one individual .
23 The rent should be based on one quarter from the 1989 payment and three quarters from 1990 but as there is no change in the rent over the two years the expense is the same .
24 Having taken on board the two main objections to its March 1978 proposals , the DES reverted to its original proposal and in order ‘ to avoid multiple problems of interface with existing bodies ’ , it considered it essential that the new Committee ‘ should be based within one of the major existing validating bodies ’ which , however , should not be the CGLI .
25 I do not say , either , that these rights and duties should be tied into one package , that if a young person wants to assume any of them , he must assume them all .
26 However it is recommended that this privilege should be assigned to one individual in order to avoid any conflict of activity .
27 It argued that government control should be ‘ strategic guidance ’ and should be exercised as far as possible in the same way for all the industries by the use of economic and financial criteria , and that this should be done by one minister and one department .
28 Therefore it was natural that the ploughing should be done in one extended visit to the field : it was convenient that this should fall in the forepart of the day while the afternoon was spent , by the oxen in resting , and by their driver and ploughman in feeding them and seeing to their wants .
29 It is important that the entire pulling and resisting movement should be done in one smooth and controlled movement .
30 He brushed up my biochemistry , informing me that the long chain fences of fat molecules are antipodean in scale set beside the dry stone walls of mere proteins , and that he himself had it as an ambition to contrive that his entire body should be sheathed in one enormous fat molecule .
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