Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [be] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( iv ) Infants — If a child ( or children ) of husband and wife is to be a beneficiary at the end of the trust and is likely to be an infant at that time , the trustees should perhaps be given power to pay the child 's share of the proceeds to the parent or guardian .
2 Such a position should rightly be called humanist .
3 An Act of Parliament abolished the very surname and ordained that the property outside Perth should henceforth be called Huntingtower .
4 Midani , the wealthy Lebanese who had always believed that he had first option should Edwards ever decide to sell , after trying to buy the club himself , insisted more than once : ‘ United must not be caused embarassment , ’ and seemed to be the one participant in what became an increasingly shabby affair who was conscious that great dignity was at stake .
5 According to Smith , Snape must nevertheless be given credit for being the first to project , and actually found , a veterinary school in this country .
6 then certainly children should not be receiving communion .
7 Admittedly , these are all important areas of concern , but moral reasoning should not be made subservient to what are themselves value laden economic arguments which do not always take into account the totality of the costs they purport to assess .
8 Users should not be given access to this account .
9 A year later , the Secretary of State for the Environment , then Patrick Jenkin , accepted his inspector 's recommendations that the Mies scheme should not be given consent .
10 In the present case the only issue is whether there is something in the language of the Act or by necessary implication , to show that the policy embodied in the Act should not be given effect as regards the questioning of a suspect who has been charged .
11 Your aim should not be to lose weight , but to bring your eating habits under your control .
12 THE House will wish to know that the decision to separate has no constitutional implications … there is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned Queen in due course .
13 THE House will wish to know that the decision to separate has no constitutional implications … there is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned Queen in due course .
14 The children of the prince and princess retain their position in the line of succession , and there is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned Queen in due course .
15 There is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned Queen in due course .
16 Prime Minister John Major announced to the House of Commons on Dec. 9 that the Prince and Princess of Wales , who married in 1981 [ see p. 31116 ] , were to separate but that they had no plans to divorce and that their constitutional positions were unaffected , adding : " There is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned queen in due course . "
17 As in the counties , the effective manager of a political interest in a burgh would distribute favours in an effort to create feelings of obligation , and if management in the towns could take a much cruder form than would be commonly acceptable among the freeholders , that similarity should not be lost sight of , for as Mrs. Mary Campbell suggested , if such small favours were given , ‘ in greatetud they should serve those who get favours done them ’ .
18 This positive facilitating function should not be lost sight of in our study of the negative controlling function .
19 One of the key arguments in defending its position on the school timetable must be the 1988 Education Reform Act itself which should not be lost sight of among the more immediate problems of implementation .
20 I shall play no further part in this debate which should not be taking place .
21 In any event the courts now have to consider many similar problems and plaintiffs should not be denied relief in proper cases because of possible difficulties of proof .
22 We seem to have been steadily moving away , in spirit and in the letter , from the findings of the famous Beveridge report on Broadcasting in 1949 which concluded that ‘ minorities must have the chance , by persuasion to turn themselves into majorities ’ ( para 259 ) and should not be denied access to the media because of their size .
23 Nevertheless it is important that every member of a firm should be familiar with at least the basic arrangements for its administration and should not be denied access to information about the activities of the firm at any level , subject always to their giving reasonable notice .
24 We are very concerned that in in making provision for housing through to the year two thousand and six , we should not be making provision for that level of vacancy rate , which seems to us to be artificially high when compared with the the national figures .
25 Is there any reason why the minority , or any minority , should not be accounted part of the people ?
26 CAFOD , on behalf of the church in this country , are asking people to write to their MP to stress that this country should not be cutting aid , but rather seeing how we can increase it .
27 But I do not see why its language should not be taken advantage of by an assignee of the lease who desires to sue the original lessor on his covenants in the lease . "
28 The report then expressed the opinion that certain workmen should be eligible for re-employment if they sought it but not in any circumstances for election as shop stewards ; and that other workmen should not be offered re-employment .
29 But at this meeting I went to , people there felt very strongly that services should not be awarded funding to go for investors in people .
30 Kosovo 's President Ibrahim Rugova [ see p. 38919 ] paid visits on July 14 to Albania and on July 16-17 to Greece ( the latter , at the Black Sea summit on June 25 — see p. 38980-81 — having taken the view that Kosovo , as an autonomous region within Serbia and not therefore a constituent element of Yugoslavia , should not be allowed self-determination ) .
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