Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons for failure is the need to measure more background variables , chosen to meet the needs of decision-makers ; critics of NAEP think that more effort should be made to find out the needs of such decision-makers . |
| 2 | On March 3 a Libyan-based opposition group , the National Movement of Chadian Renovators , claimed in a communiqué to the Agence France-Presse news agency that the national charter was " anti-democratic " and that a national conference should be called to draw up a " genuine draft constitution " and an election timetable . |
| 3 | Further impetus to the work in the coalfields was given by a wartime committee which once again found the maps of these areas out of date and recommended that the staff should be increased to carry out a satisfactory revision . |
| 4 | An inquiry into British energy should be undertaken to weigh up the arguments and to give the UK a national strategy for the years to 2012 and beyond . ’ |
| 5 | In November it was agreed that a Constituent Assembly should be created to draw up a schedule of meetings to be held on each of the four Windward Islands in 1991 and to decide on the form of the proposed referendum to be held in each state . |
| 6 | The construction industry 's authority should remain a statutory body while the Engineering Training Authority should be allowed to take over the functions of the old engineering industry training board . |
| 7 | This section describes the information which should be entered to set up a computer based problem report using the IPF Problem Control Facility . |
| 8 | No woman should be expected to bring up a large family on her own . |
| 9 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 10 | Students may by now feel competent to generalise , and they should be encouraged to write down the number of patterns in a 4 × 2 grid , and test their answer by drawing . |
| 11 | Parliament and King agreed that a militia must be raised to put down the rebellion , but neither would trust its control to the other . |
| 12 | For example in studying the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 the analysis of the causes is further refined by their division into long-term causes and short-term causes : To encourage the analysis of evidence pupils must be asked to weigh up the sources which may contradict one another . |
| 13 | To this is added the remark that since the testator 's intention is clear , the slave must be compelled to hand over the accounts . |
| 14 | This must be removed to bring about a permanent cure . |
| 15 | It is so-called because the bêche plate must be reused to cut up the even denser marc . |
| 16 | In appropriate cases a commissioner from the Requesting State might be appointed to carry out the special method or procedure requested , e.g. , to overcome the difficulty which a civil law State may have in satisfying a Request from a common law State to take evidence under cross examination , because no judge or local lawyer in the requested State had any experience in that field . |
| 17 | There must be other places in the evening where Suzie might be expected to put in an appearance . |
| 18 | On the basis of these small but important findings , a case could be made to close down the whole of the provision in this sector . |
| 19 | Given the vast symbolic and metaphorical potential of the natural world , it is obvious , says Lévi-Strauss , that the same characteristics could be given different meaning and that different characteristics could be selected to make up a set . |
| 20 | Repayment could be timed to smooth out the boom-slump cycle which was widely expected to follow the war . |
| 21 | If machines could be taught to plan over a chessboard , maybe they could do it in a factory as well . |
| 22 | As the dust began to subside , shafts of late afternoon light could be seen raking down the village streets . |
| 23 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 24 | Other economic benefits of migrant labour include the recruitment of migrants to particular jobs at lower wages than indigenous workers , partly because job titles and grades could be invented to cover up the fact that job content remained the same , and also because of the threat of repatriation and other forms of intimidation ; the enhanced possibilities for the introduction of shiftwork and piece-work , deskilling , and the slower introduction of safety measures ; the avoidance of national insurance payments by the recruitment of illegal migrants ; and the ability to shed and recruit with relative ease , thus avoiding the costs of labour hoarding ( Paine , 1977 ; Fevre , 1983 ) . |
| 25 | It seems , however , that your leitmotiv is that no doctor could be expected to carry out the multifacetted role that doctors ‘ helping the police with their enquiries ’ have to perform , that they can not do so with their usual amount of skill , and that they can not carry out some of the more sensitive tasks without bias or being influenced by their paymasters — the police . |
| 26 | As the lines were alternately pulled so the pulley actuated a semi-circular rudder hinged across the diagonal of the rearmost box.One does not need to have much imagination to see how the rudder deflection might send the Box kite into limited stunts , given a strong wind ; but we doubt if the rigid stability of a Box kite could be persuaded to perform over a wide range of movement . |
| 27 | It was eventually agreed that I could be allowed to bring up the subject . |
| 28 | Even if an effective way could be found to pass on the costs of rubbish disposal to the average household , an awkward fact would remain . |
| 29 | From the moment that La Pietra 's anchor was safely biting ( again , watch those mooring chains ) , a superb air of idleness overtook everyone on board , so much so that no one could be bothered to put up the awning and we lay and baked in the sweltering afternoon heat . |
| 30 | After years of assuring everyone that China could be trusted to carry out the 1984 British-Chinese agreement on Hong Kong in good faith , the colonial administration found itself after Tiananmen Square presiding over a population which knew that China could not be trusted at all . |