Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [vb pp] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie had defied an agreement between the Wardens of the Marches that no building should be erected by either side within the confines of the Debatable Land when he set up a tower above the Esk . |
| 2 | Aylesbury Vale Health Authority hopes the cuts will be temporary and says the books should be balanced by next year . |
| 3 | During the term of office of the third chief executive , a referendum would be held to decide whether the chief executive should be selected by general election . |
| 4 | National armaments should be limited by mutual agreement , and the pressures of the military-industrial complex regulated by nationalization of armaments firms and control over the arms trade . |
| 5 | The range of attitudes is illustrated by strategies that state , at one extreme , that ‘ all people should be provided with access to public transport services for three return trips a day to the nearest market town , providing for a journey to work in the morning , a mid-day shopping journey and a journey home in the evening … ’ , and suggest , at the other extreme , that all ‘ deep ’ rural areas should have a public transport service to a local centre on at least two days a week or that all sizeable villages should be served by public transport on one day a week ( Adams et al . |
| 6 | It should be completed by one person on behalf of all residents at the property . |
| 7 | Parliament and government should be elected by popular vote , or a weighted version of it , but once elected , the people should accept that an assembly of " the best and wisest men in the nation " will make better decisions than the people themselves . |
| 8 | They also declared that the president of the republic should be elected by universal suffrage . |
| 9 | On the basis of these and similar findings , it has been suggested that in cases of small tumours up to 1 cm in diameter , endoscopic removal or local excision would be sufficient , but that larger or numerous carcinoid tumours should be treated by gastric resection or gastrectomy with removal of regional lymph notes . |
| 10 | At an informal meeting in Apeldoorn , the Netherlands , on the weekend of Sept. 21-22 the 12 Finance Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) together with their central bank presidents made progress in negotiations on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) , agreeing that the decision on the start of " stage three " should be made by unanimous agreement of all 12 heads of state and government , rather than by majority decision . |
| 11 | It used to be the custom that the issue of the writ should be moved by chief whip of the party in the House of Commons a member of which had held the seat prior to its vacation , but this practice was occasionally the subject of abuse by the moving party being reluctant , by reason of its unpopularity in the country and consequent fear of being humiliated in a poll , Constituents in one instance were left unrepresented for over nine months . |
| 12 | The documentation should be written by Taxonomic Computing staff , with input from the Computer Support Officer in his training role . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) If the specimen with the lower proportion of alcohol contains no more than 50 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath , the person who provided it may claim that it should be replaced by such specimen as may be required under section 7(4) of this Act and , if he then provides such a specimen , neither specimen of breath shall be used . |
| 14 | The main spine cabling should be replaced by optical fibre cabling , which has much higher data transmission rates , is more flexible , and is electrically safer . |
| 15 | These should be run by private enterprise . |
| 16 | And some journalists work for the paper read by the people who think this country should be run by another country ( The Morning Star ) . |
| 17 | Indeed , he had sometimes felt that the use of such a system , except in times of dire emergency , should be prohibited by international law . |
| 18 | If not , they should be altered by special resolution prior to the matter being brought before the court . |
| 19 | That means this belief should be reinforced by natural selection . |
| 20 | All documents sent by post for service , whether originating process or otherwise and whether to companies or to persons , should be sent by prepaid letter post , not registered or recorded ; only documents other than originating process can be sent by second class post . |
| 21 | The first M constraints express the fact that each individual undertakes exactly one task and the second M constraints say that each task should be undertaken by one individual . |
| 22 | However , even if the USSR does feel it necessary to reduce oil exports , any foreign exchange gap created should be filled by growing gas exports . |
| 23 | The locations of all fire alarm contact points within the building should be made known to every member of the staff who should be instructed by practical demonstration how to activate the alarm system . |
| 24 | The following questions should be answered by each partner separately , then answers should be compared and discussed . |
| 25 | It argued that government control should be ‘ strategic guidance ’ and should be exercised as far as possible in the same way for all the industries by the use of economic and financial criteria , and that this should be done by one minister and one department . |
| 26 | Probably this work should be done by direct order to a local plant contractor . |
| 27 | Prior to making benefit payment all calculation should be checked by another member of staff . |
| 28 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
| 29 | Iii case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices , let me state categorically that all my experience ( such as it is ) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record . |
| 30 | The staff teaching these courses should be qualified by appropriate experience and specialist academic study . |