Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It then considered whether the agreement ought properly to be exempted under Art 85(3) . |
| 2 | Held ( 1 ) that the public interest in preserving confidentiality underlying the particular implied undertaking by B. added little if anything to the public interest which gave rise to the basic claim of public interest immunity attaching to the authority 's documents ; so that , if that immunity ought properly to be overridden in the light of countervailing public interest arising , that countervailing interest would also outweigh such limited value as still attached to B. 's implied undertaking ( post , pp. 926H — 927A ) . |
| 3 | If that immunity ought properly to be overridden in light of the countervailing public interest arising , then in our view that countervailing interest will outweigh too such limited value as still attaches to the implied undertaking . |
| 4 | She believed that private medicine ought not to coexist by the side of the Health Service ; or perhaps more fairly , that if it did exist it should not derive any benefits from the Health Service , and that none of the resources of the Service ought properly to be available to private practitioners . |
| 5 | The problem is determining where the balance ought properly to be drawn . |
| 6 | In his introduction to the published plans of this and some of his other early houses he writes , ‘ Ornaments are to be cautiously introduced ; those ought only to be used that are simple , applicable and characteristic of their situations : they must be designed with regularity and be perfectly distinct in their outlines … |
| 7 | Fundamental and irreversible changes ought only to be imposed , if at all , in the light of an unmistakable national consensus . |
| 8 | We understand the company may reapply on the basis that Flue-Gas Desulphurisation ( FDG ) equipment will be fitted . |
| 9 | In short , Avenches , lying aside a little from the bypassing main road from Bern to Lausanne , offers a new perspective on the Swiss Mittelland for the visitor who may only until then have known the ski or climatic resorts of the mountain regions . |
| 10 | He described the celebration of saints ' days and festivals as manifestations of the ‘ splendid outward dignity of our religion , forcible witnesses of ancient truth , provocations to the exercise of all piety , shadows of our endless felicity in heaven … wherein they which can not be drawn to hearken unto what we teach may only by looking upon that we do , in a manner read whatsoever we believe ’ . |
| 11 | If it were , our decision ought obviously to be amenable to appeal . |
| 12 | Most importantly , this response ought sensibly to be in line with current market trends : financial diversification , the breaking down of barriers , and the consequent growth of integrated financial houses . |
| 13 | It follows therefore that a discussion of the effectiveness of the Chinese Wall ( a self regulatory/quasi-statutory mechanism designed , inter alia , to prevent insider dealing ) ought sensibly to be preceded by an initial outline of the substantive law regulating the practice , the likelihood of detection , and the penalties capable of being imposed . |
| 14 | A vase from the end of the century with Theseus at the bottom of the sea may perhaps in its central group give us the design of the fourth , but it is not a document of the same kind as these contemporary vases . |
| 15 | That is when you ought perhaps to be encouraging some running . |
| 16 | If this perspective is adopted , environmentalists ought perhaps to be grateful for the fact that the vast majority of farmers are not more economically rational when they come to organize the husbandry of their farms and that the inertia introduced by the historical pattern of landownership and farm structure in this country has acted as a brake on landscape change . |
| 17 | Because of his working hours he is not giving as much time as he ought perhaps to his family , although he 's always tried to ensure that weekends are devoted to his children . |
| 18 | After attending Mrs. Scaler 's funeral , Green writes ‘ the mind and the body , to produce good and prevent evil ought constantly to be engaged in such pursuits as are consistent with future prospects of happiness ’ . |
| 19 | Many areas that appear to be hazard-free on current maps may merely by passing through a temporary period of quiescence . |
| 20 | Sheringham should be way ahead of him , as should most of the strikers in the premier league … |
| 21 | Unless a society is to utilise only a fraction of the intelligence at its disposal it must obviously in one way or another make sufficient provision for vertical mobility to ensure that capacity passes , unimpeded by vulgar irrelevancies of class or income to the type of education fitted to develop it . |
| 22 | Their peace must not in any way be disturbed . |
| 23 | The private practice must not in any way impinge on national health service commitments . |
| 24 | By s 9(1) of the Housing Act 1988 , the court may adjourn for such period as it thinks fit , proceedings for possession of assured tenancies , and may stay , suspend , or postpone a claim for possession — but an order for possession must not in general be postponed to a date later than fourteen days from judgment , unless this would cause exceptional hardship , when up to six weeks may be allowed ( s 89(1) of the Houseing Act 1980 ) ; the maximum of 14 days is subject to important qualifications ( s 89(2) ) examples of which are those cases under the Rent Act 1977 where the court may only order possession if reasonable , possession actions by mortgagees when the period is 28 days , and by lessors for forfeiture for non-payment of rent , when any order for possession must be for not less than four weeks ( s 138(3) of the 1984 Act ) . |
| 25 | However , whilst asserting that the reporting accountant should already as part of his or her duties be auditing at least two reconciliations in detail they also argued that the process was ‘ highly unlikely to reveal a great deal that the reporting accountant would not otherwise pick up during the year-end work ’ . |
| 26 | The context suggests that he must already by then have been of age and so was born in or before 1260 . |
| 27 | These arts they must already in considerable measure have mastered . |
| 28 | The broadcasts should not to be crammed with masses of information — key messages should be kept as simple as possible using humour , drama and celebrities to convey the basic facts . |
| 29 | Deviant elders should not of course be automatically assessed as confused ‘ dements ’ . |
| 30 | The power to grant injunctions , which now arises under section 37 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , is a discretionary power , which should not as a matter of principle be fettered by rules . |