Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This in itself presents a powerful argument against change , for it is clearly desirable that national and EC policies should be broadly similar if only because it is less confusing to the business community . |
| 2 | As a rule of thumb guide , to the effectiveness of a machine , items coming out should be visibly clean and too hot to handle with comfort . |
| 3 | Such support would be based on the following principles : adjustment should be economically viable as well as socially and politically bearable ; it should conform with long-term development objectives ; it should be based on a joint assessment by the EC and the country concerned ; and it should be undertaken in close co-operation with the international financial institutions ( primarily the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank ) . |
| 4 | In principle , the play should be more sinister and much funnier in its jet-black way than this version allows . |
| 5 | Also , any genetic component of DU disease should be more prominent and thus more readily detected in H pylori negative patients with DU who have developed the disorder in the absence of this important acquired factor . |
| 6 | While big may not always be beautiful , it should be more cost-efficient and potentially cheaper . |
| 7 | WITH THIS week 's hike in interest rates , homebuyers should be more careful than ever about advertisements for mortgages with seemingly low rates of interest . |
| 8 | We would like to see closer control , and checks should be more stringent and more frequent . |
| 9 | Initially the quantity expected to be eaten should be very small and gradually the amount increased up to a normal portion for the age of the child . |
| 10 | IT states that risks to individuals and society should be As Low As Reasonably Practicable . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , it should be that simple but then sometimes all the business shit gets in the way of it . |
| 12 | It should be quite warm and now it 's not . |
| 13 | The knotting should be extremely fine and even throughout ; patterns and motifs should be executed with exactness of size and spacing ; and the colours should be even and consistent in tone . |
| 14 | What 's more — given the Magic Kingdom 's wide appeal among people of all ages and particularly among families with young children — we strongly believe your FUNBREAK holiday should be truly carefree and easily affordable , with the convenience of Door to Door service . |
| 15 | Carrie felt impatient with her — no grown-up should be so weak and so silly — but she was sorry as well . |
| 16 | As a male chainworker commented to Commissioner on the Factory Acts in 1876 : ‘ I should advocate their [ women 's ] time should be so limited as neither to interfere with their own health and morals or with our wages ’ . |
| 17 | He must be both desperate and close to the end to take such an enormous risk . |
| 18 | First it must be energetically desirable and secondly there must be a molecular mechanism by which the energy transformation can take place . |
| 19 | However , the time that the light remains inside the interferometer arms is then , which means that the measurement time must be equally long or longer . |
| 20 | In the same report another contributor comments , " For EMU to be sustainable , the economies of countries forming the union must be similarly competitive or else some countries would be faced with the equivalent of a constant balance of payments deficit which , in EMU , would be reflected in terms of stagnation and unemployment . " |
| 21 | Thus the notice must be reasonably large and prominently displayed at a spot visible to the buyer when the contract is made . |
| 22 | First , it is progressive : in some sense , each succeeding level must be more advanced or more difficult than its predecessors . |
| 23 | That is why we need a Freedom of Information Act , why government must be more pluralistic and more decentralised , and why we should fully explore electoral reform . |
| 24 | The statement must be as clear and as unambiguous as possible . |
| 25 | It seemed to Susan that she must be terribly drunk or terribly tired . |
| 26 | By the time films reached Pasiano they were far from pristine : they might be unintentionally silent and sometimes stopped altogether . |
| 27 | What images might be more accurate or more precise ? |
| 28 | A man might be more virtuous if more selfish , after all , as more than one eighteenth-century moralist proposed , and more generous if he had more to be generous with . |
| 29 | It means that the communication might be less opportunistic and more frequent with the targets selective rather than whomever happens to be in the group . |
| 30 | They might be marvellously unaffected and inherently ‘ nice ’ , but far more importantly , they have produced several great records and , ultimately , that is all that counts . |