Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Application for admission may be by the nearest relative or an approved social worker . |
| 2 | ( 5 ) If a condition attached to an occasional licence is contravened as regards any club , every person whose name is , at the time of the contravention , contained in the list lodged under subsection ( 3 ) ( b ) of section 103 of this Act , or as the case may be in the new list last lodged under subsection ( 5 ) or ( 5A ) of that section , in respect of that club , shall be guilty of an offence : |
| 3 | The herbs must be in the best possible condition and generously used for a good refreshing taste . |
| 4 | These might have been held to be missing links in a chain of which the links were very small in some places , and large ( so far ) in others ; but this idea conflicted with the notion that God would have created the best of all possible worlds , which should therefore not change over time since all change must be for the worse . |
| 5 | The front foot should be on the windward edge and well weighted . |
| 6 | In what is described as ‘ a key statement ’ , the report claims that : ‘ the onus in all cases should be on the social services authorities to show that the private sector is being fully stimulated and encouraged and that competitive tenders or other means of testing the market , are being taken ’ . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the situation between the government , the union and the Shipowners ' Federation had proceeded almost to the point of agreement in principle on a National Maritime Board and a proposal from Havelock Wilson that a single source of supply of seamen should be under the joint control of the Federation and the union , though formal acceptance and drafting problems remained ; so did the Liverpool revolt . |
| 8 | Remember that before you start to sail the board must be in the secure position . |
| 9 | The set part of the sentence should be about the same length as the variable part which is used to finish it . |
| 10 | [ They ] have not learned that the stronghold of literature should be in the upper classes of society , while the stronghold of science should be in the nation 's middle class . |
| 11 | The Under Secretaries with their political departments and the Consular Department should be on the principal floor with the Secretary of State . |
| 12 | All statistics collected with public funds should be in the public domain ; 3 . |
| 13 | Tank stands should be of the highest quality . |
| 14 | What assures the Calibra 's success is its pricing : the base model is predicted to cost less than £14,000 , while even the 16-valve four-wheel drive flyer should be on the right side of £17,000 . |
| 15 | The roof should be on the main building by the end of March and installation of the main process equipment will begin immediately after Easter . |
| 16 | His kids must be about the same age . ’ |
| 17 | Since the play is by Shakespeare , the critical policy has been to assume the tragedy must be of the first stature and , therefore , the play would be written to support this revelation of interiority . |
| 18 | Inputs and outputs should be at the same level of abstraction ; in other words conversion of an abstract notion ( such as customers needs ) to a tangible form ( such as the specific goods or services that are supplied ) is not supportable in a root definition . |
| 19 | Labour might be in the extraordinary position of winning a general election with its Leader outside Parliament . |
| 20 | But science was a better way to approach this Mystery than any dogmatic religion could be in the nineteenth century : ‘ We claim , and we shall wrest from theology , the entire domain of cosmological theory . ’ |
| 21 | To show how adult even a major Fox movie could be in the late sixties , the credit sequence has the two lovebirds in bed together , cutely sleeping side by side and back to back . |
| 22 | I believe that the Youth Training Programme could be amongst the best . |
| 23 | Lifts could be on the wrong floor at the wrong moment . |
| 24 | ‘ Ian Wright could be in the National Basketball Association , he did so much trash talking for 45 minutes , ’ Meola said . |
| 25 | An analogy would be with the familiar general principle of criminal law that a person can not be guilty as an aider and abettor unless ( in technical terms ) one can point to a principal offender who has committed the actus reus of an offence . |
| 26 | Even though the problem shows that the full crime was consummated , the culprits may be convicted of attempt or incitement , so that it may be relevant to mention these crimes — though normally , of course , the indictment would be for the completed crime , not for a mere attempt or incitement . |
| 27 | Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes . |
| 28 | All their concentration would be on the great white wall of crashing surf ahead . |
| 29 | He had said he had n't seen her in the shop , so he must have called in on occasions when Ann would be in the sweet shop and Arthur Peeble in the tobacconist 's or her father was there taking Peeble 's place ; he rarely served in the sweet shop . |
| 30 | He said almost half of Darlington 's homes would be on the lowest band and 60pc will be on the bottom two bands when the council tax is introduced . |