Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prostitution , said the Rescue Society in 1880 , ‘ should be completely suppressed and houses of ill fame utterly rooted out ’ . |
| 2 | Parents in my constituency are anxious that teachers should be properly remunerated because teachers with low morale are bad teachers , and they are particularly concerned that there might just be a slight possibility of a Labour Government next year , with a resultant cut in teachers ' real pay , as happened when Labour was last in office . |
| 3 | Noise , lighting and heating should be carefully examined and measurements taken if problems are identified . |
| 4 | It should be clearly stated that Barbarossa was pious ; his entire life and style of rule was guided by his religious beliefs . |
| 5 | The client for whom the firm is acting should be clearly identified and care should be taken to ensure that third parties do not form the impression that the firm is advising them or acting for them when this is not the case . |
| 6 | The client for whom the firm is acting should be clearly identified and care should be taken to ensure that third parties do not form the impression that the firm is advising them or acting for them when this is not the case . |
| 7 | Its position was that considerations of comity should be fully addressed before discovery should be allowed to proceed by means not fully recognised by the foreign sovereign State concerned . |
| 8 | Both parties expressed a strong desire to avoid another tussle of this kind , and some politicians advocated that the Senate should be informally consulted before Bush announced future nominations . |
| 9 | Age Concern believes that these issues should be explicitly considered when discussions take place about responsibilities of health authorities , family practitioner committees and self-governing hospitals . |
| 10 | Each move should be smoothly executed and movement should slip into movement flawlessly . |
| 11 | To start with , software running on the computer must be properly integrated and Apple had designed that into the Macintosh from day one . |
| 12 | It must be clearly recognised that compensation orders are otherwise wholly independent of that exercise . |
| 13 | Finally , though it must be generally accepted that individuals can not be protected from foolish actions based on an inadequate knowledge of the law , the situation following the 1954 Act was so complex and , because of the inevitable unpredictability of the necessity for compulsory purchase , so risky that it appeared likely ( in retrospect at least ) that public opinion would demand a further change . |
| 14 | This said , the information disclosed must be seriously considered and action taken as appropriate . |
| 15 | The physical mechanism underlying the proposed link between solar output and cycle length must be better understood before cycle length can be used with confidence as a proxy for irradiance changes . |
| 16 | Autocratic style Decision-making is centralised in the hands of the leader himself , who does not encourage participation by subordinates ; indeed , subordinates ' ideas might be actively discouraged and obedience to orders would be expected from them . |
| 17 | But though this may quell doubts about the benefits of the existence of large-scale enterprise , it does not bear on the point that where competition is attenuated a policy of profit maximisation may not be wealth maximising : society might be better served if companies were to lower price and increase output , even though this would be less profitable from the company 's point of view . |
| 18 | For every Cardinal Newman there are hundreds for whom such words might be better described as egotism or pig-headedness . |
| 19 | Great care would be taken during the whole operation , and there need be no fears that varieties could be incorrectly named or labels lost . |
| 20 | The idea that knowledge could be firmly established and disputes resolved if we began from clear beginnings always remained with Hobbes . |
| 21 | The point could be simply made if psychology modelled on the natural sciences were always ‘ behavioural ’ and concerned with the actors ' brains rather than with their minds . |
| 22 | You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT . |
| 23 | Our ability to gain a better insight into the predatory relationship is made difficult because saurischians could be either herbivores or carnivores . |
| 24 | If Donuel ( Domnall ) , father of Talorcan 's successors in the kingship of the Picts , first Gartnait and then Drest , could be securely identified as Domnall Brecc , formerly king of Dál Riata , Gartnait and Drest could perhaps be viewed as the beneficiaries of an alliance between the Scots and the northern Angles against the Picts ; but Donuel 's identification with Domnall Brecc is not certain , and what could have been a break in the succession of kings of the Picts occurred from 663 to 665/6 between the death of Gartnait and the accession of Drest . |
| 25 | Fifa , Italia '90 and the English FA are all agreed that the hooligan element among English fans could be better contained if England played their opening games on an island . |
| 26 | It is obvious how important this is , because the relevance of the very substantial database of information represented by the SUC ( records of well over 2 million works are currently held ) could be seriously eroded if automation leads to a progressive decline in notifications . |
| 27 | In an effort to ensure there will be no counterstrike the Royal Saudi pilots forsook the Muslim holy day today to fly their missions , a reminder that religious and political loyalties could be severely tested if Israel was to join the allied force . |
| 28 | They also found that weed growth could be substantially decreased if radishes were grown and then cultivated into the soil . |
| 29 | The door could be quickly locked and peace preserved . |
| 30 | ‘ The risk of cot death could be greatly reduced if children could be put to sleep on their backs . ’ |