Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the Agadir crisis , he had declared bombastically that it was ‘ high time this insolent clique in Paris should be made once more to feel what a Pomeranian Grenadier can do ’ He edited a book for children , entitled ‘ Germany in Arms ’ , glorifying war , and was fond of speaking to German youth about the forthcoming ‘ happy — cheerful war ’ whatever that meant . |
| 2 | There were frequent complaints that the limits were too low and should be increased more regularly to avoid unnecessary administrative waste , with increasing numbers of applications for extensions , delay , irritation and so on . |
| 3 | Early potatoes should be sprouted indoors now to go out in spring . |
| 4 | The hands should be pre-set slightly forward to encourage a descending strike . |
| 5 | At age 16 the General Certificate of Secondary Education ( GCSE ) should be the main form of assessment , especially in the core subjects ; ( e ) the results of assessment should be used both formatively to help better teaching and to inform decisions about next steps for a pupil , and summatively at ages 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 to inform parents in simple and clear terms about their child 's progress . |
| 6 | the results of assessment should be used both formatively to help better teaching and to inform decisions about next steps for a pupil , and summatively at ages 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 to inform parents in simple and clear terms about their child 's progress . |
| 7 | The points should be sharpened vertically downwards to give a chisel point ( except on vertical front points , which are sharpened as an ice-axe pick ) . |
| 8 | Once on the new side , the rig should be thrown well forwards to complete the turn on to the new tack . |
| 9 | This must be done very carefully to ensure that the opening of the oviduct remains intact since it is extremely difficult to insert a needle once it has been damaged . |
| 10 | Union researchers must be used more systematically to support the party 's work . |
| 11 | To ensure the best and most appropriate access to that information , historians might be advised once again to pursue collaborative initiatives with scholars in other disciplines who will also rely as heavily upon such materials . |
| 12 | There are two things that could be done relatively easily to ameliorate this situation . |
| 13 | It was therefore assumed in the culture that there were ‘ universals ’ and that it was the universal , rather than particular instances of that universal , which could be said most truly to exist . |
| 14 | Today people conceive as ‘ real ’ that which , within a dominantly Platonist framework of thought , would have been held to be a particular instance of what could be said most truly to exist . |
| 15 | Most of the tensile stresses in tools are due to bending and by keeping stone tools short and compact stresses could be kept low enough to ensure reasonable durability . |
| 16 | ‘ I never miss Midnight Mass at St Martin's-in-the-Field , ’ Oscar told him , ‘ so I 'd appreciate it greatly ii the meeting could be concluded quickly enough to allow me time to get there and find a pew with a good view . ’ |
| 17 | Ian Renilson , operations manager for Fife Product Innovation , said he believed product innovation was the most fundamental method of wealth creation which could be harnessed more effectively to generate real economic growth . |
| 18 | Software Transformation 's technology provides a framework of software programming tools that is claimed to transcend differences in graphical user interfaces and varied operating system characteristics such as memory allocation and file systems so that applications need be developed only once to run on a variety of systems — currently Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh , Microsoft Corp 's Windows , Novell and Univel Inc 's UnixWare and Unixes from Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc , with versions for OS/2 , AIX and NT on the way . |
| 19 | Software Transformation 's technology provides a framework of software programming tools that is claimed to transcend differences in graphical user interfaces and varied operating system characteristics such as memory allocation and file systems so that applications need be developed only once to run on a variety of systems — currently Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh , Microsoft Corp 's Windows , Novell and Univel Inc 's UnixWare and Unixes from Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc , with versions for OS/2 , AIX and NT on the way . |
| 20 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
| 21 | The literature on the distribution of earnings is massive and no attempt will be made here either to summarise or evaluate it . |
| 22 | Linighan , who will be examined again today to see whether his nose is actually broken , had played for 100 minutes in great discomfort after Bright 's dreadful challenge but joked : ‘ You get used to taking knocks like that I 'm a Hartlepool lad . ’ |
| 23 | The preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole can be seen once again to have had a dramatic effect on the outcome of this particular question , with over three-quarters of the 55% who answered negatively being sole practitioners . |
| 24 | It is to be hoped that data-base technology can be developed quickly enough to meet the imminent requirements for data management in very large hyper-bases . |
| 25 | Added to this the partner of the black hole must have swollen to the giant stage in order that material can be transferred rapidly enough to give an accretion disc that produces detectable numbers of X-rays . |
| 26 | This small , wall-powered unit can be installed almost anywhere to allow one Ethernet connection to become eight . |
| 27 | This small , wallpowered unit can be installed almost anywhere to allow one Ethernet connection to become two . |
| 28 | This small , wallpowered unit can be installed almost anywhere to allow one Ethernet connection to become four . |
| 29 | Co-operative R&D ventures are more flexible than full integration and can be realigned more easily to meet changing circumstances . |
| 30 | The informal interview can not generally be used to test hypotheses very accurately , but it can be used most fruitfully to clarify them and to elaborate them . |