Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Parliament and King agreed that a militia must be raised to put down the rebellion , but neither would trust its control to the other . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | To this is added the remark that since the testator 's intention is clear , the slave must be compelled to hand over the accounts . |
| 9 | It is so-called because the bêche plate must be reused to cut up the even denser marc . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Repayment could be timed to smooth out the boom-slump cycle which was widely expected to follow the war . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was eventually agreed that I could be allowed to bring up the subject . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Maybe they could be used to build up the spiritual life . |
| 20 | Besides , there was the possibility that the Visigoths could be used to shore up the Empire . |
| 21 | Giving very high lift with small drag at take-off , but high lift and high drag on landing , these flaps could be used to tighten up the turning radius in combat . |
| 22 | For example , substance P can be used to control not its own synthesis but some other pathway , just as a thermostat could be used to switch on the television instead of the boiler . |
| 23 | THEY may be trying to patch up the rift in their marriage . |
| 24 | A traditional anecdote may be said to sum up the change that has taken place in our attitude . |
| 25 | Of course , once children give up their single-level assumption , they accept the fact that terms at different levels such as dog and animal or bear and toy may be used to pick out the same object . |
| 26 | An activator may be used to speed up the process but certain basic principles should be borne in mind . |
| 27 | My garage is to be demolished very soon and I am worried that the pneumatic drill which may be used to break up the concrete base will upset or even kill my fish in a pond about 20′ away . |
| 28 | If laboratory scale experiments indicate , however , that the indigenous microfauna are unable to degrade the contaminants , enrichment cultures of microorganisms may be added to speed up the process . |
| 29 | In cooler areas where ripening is a problem — such as Germany or Burgundy in France — a little extra sugar may be added to bump up the alcohol . |
| 30 | A few coats may be needed to build up the surface over deeper blemishes . |