Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing to suggest that that power to sue should be limited so as to exclude the proceedings before the court , save by the nature of the trade union itself , and that did not exclude a claim in respect of a libel ‘ calculated to arouse doubts and suspicions in the minds of members [ of the union itself ] , and so to destroy the cohesion and will to act of the union : ’ per Scott L.J . |
| 2 | It should be noted finally that depending on their design , incentive schemes may actually be counter-productive . |
| 3 | The DC identifier should be noted carefully and used in all further operations on the DC . |
| 4 | Ties should be inspected regularly and renewed annually , so as not to constrict the stem . |
| 5 | If anything , they should be expanding rather than removing it . ’ |
| 6 | Third World governments should be stepping aside and letting market forces work their magic , they argued . |
| 7 | If defibrillation fails to restore a satisfactory rhythm , adrenaline 1 mg should be given intravenously and repeated every 3–5 min as necessary . |
| 8 | Our findings also confirm the observation that siblings of affected cases at risk should be seen immediately and dealt with proactively . |
| 9 | Schrager and Short may not go this far , but they are certainly right to stress that corporate crime should be conceptualized so as to include acts of omission as well as the more obvious acts of commission . |
| 10 | The scope of L Detachment should be extended so as to cover the functions of all existing Special Service units existing [ sic ] in the Middle East , as well as any other Special Service tasks which may require carrying out . |
| 11 | Stock should be handled carefully and put away immediately it has been checked in ( using stock rotation methods — see below ) . |
| 12 | If the hon. Gentleman asks me whether I agree that the Irish issue should be pushed upstairs and taken off the Floor of the House , I certainly do not . |
| 13 | We welcome the advice that new retail development should be sited so as to reduce the number and length of car journeys and to provide for those who do not have access to a car . |
| 14 | Uncrossed cheques and postal orders should be crossed immediately or stamped with a ‘ crossings stamp ’ to avoid fraud . |
| 15 | The letters should be sufficiently large and should be placed so as to cater for patients with poor vision . |
| 16 | She says it make her mad that they should be locked away and left to starve . |
| 17 | They should be detected early and recorded both to increase the awareness of the local population and to motivate prompt reaction from the international community . |
| 18 | Either it is an instance of a proof by reductio ad absurdum , in which we assume something true in order to prove it false ; or it is a way of exposing a paradox within the concept of knowledge , for the sceptic can surely insist that if a central concept such as that of knowledge can be used to take us validly from true premises to a false or impossible conclusion , something is wrong with the concept ; there is probably some internal tension which should be exposed rather than swept under the carpet . |
| 19 | It should be watered well and allowed to drain , and then put into its place in the home , out of the sun for a day or two . |
| 20 | In any notification case of this kind the local planning authority will be given an opportunity to decide whether , in their view , the proposal should be advertised so as to give the public a chance to comment , and also to discuss with the department ways in which the proposal might be amended to overcome any objections to the proposed development . |
| 21 | Apples should be picked carefully and graded so that the smallest and largest are used first , and medium-sized fruit is saved for storage . |
| 22 | The other school believes that the traditional skills of the paste-up artist should be retained rather than sacrificed on the altar of automation . |
| 23 | Affected plants should be removed immediately when noticed . |
| 24 | The distinction between the two is linked to men 's belief that women are after emotional closeness as much as physical pleasure , and that women regard the sexual act as something that should be protracted rather than completed as briskly as possible . |
| 25 | One main broadcasting organization should continue to be funded by ‘ the corpus of users ’ ( that is to say , the licence fee , or something like it ) , and broadcasting should be structured so as to encourage competition in good programming rather than for audience numbers ( BRU , 1985 ) . |
| 26 | In the former camp , organisations such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England vigorously protest at any threat to the Green Belt and argue that derelict , or ‘ brown ’ sites within it should be restored rather than handed over to developers . |
| 27 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 28 | Above all , the legal effect of the terms should be clear and certain , and they should be drafted so as to avoid ambiguity . |
| 29 | If Mao could sit up in his mausoleum and scan the elite quarters to the west of the Forbidden City , with X-ray vision to penetrate its vermilion walls , he would conclude that the present leadership should be Respected Tactically but Despised Strategically . |
| 30 | Before filling the cistern , it should be cleaned thoroughly and sterilised with a dilute bleach solution ( or use Milton ) . |