Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objection may be signed by an agent , who , for his own protection ought to obtain a written mandate from those whom he represents : see subs . |
| 2 | It is hard to see what sense there is in , for example , assuming that individuals without a car ought to have the same utilisation of services wherever they live . |
| 3 | Overwhelming pain is a term used to emphasise a common result of chronic unrelieved severe cancer pain . |
| 4 | Rationing of sweets , like food and clothing , was continued for several years after the war was over , and people like me with a sweet tooth used to bemoan the meagre ration of sweets and chocolate we were allowed . |
| 5 | Theorists pointed out that any such change in the size of the Sun ought to produce a detectable change in the solar constant — the amount of energy output by the Sun . |
| 6 | ‘ It may be that the Institute ought to take a stricter line in future and that more disciplinary action will be taken , ’ said Investigation Committee secretary Gordon Porter . |
| 7 | The fascination with functions of the body , the analogies between artistic and physical creative processes , self-portraiture used to reveal the female body as the site of patriarchal aesthetic discourse ; all of these mirror the concerns of many women painters of the 1980s . |
| 8 | a hardened steel engraving stamp used to print an inked image . |
| 9 | The trimpot used to set the first stage gain , should be set at maximum resistance and the multi-turn zero offset trimpot to the centre of its range before this check . |
| 10 | The mass picketing of Orgreave — a tactic used to discourage the British Steel Corporation ( BSC ) from increasing its daily supplies of coke to its Scunthorpe steel works above a quota already agreed with the miners ’ and steel workers ' unions — was initially characterised by good-humoured pushing and shoving on both sides . |
| 11 | To carry out a more detailed examination of the existing activities and functional groupings each sub-system of the post-ERA model was expanded , and the ideas and information generated during the exercise used to explore the real situation . |
| 12 | It is also not uncommon to find that the projection used to map a particular phenomenon is altered from time to time . |
| 13 | There is a natural appeal in using age weighting in the formula based on the normative assumption that individuals in a given age group ought to have the same utilisation of services wherever they live . |
| 14 | The laws of war ought to have a great deal to say about , or rather against , the use of nuclear weaponry . |
| 15 | Exercise 8–5 Examine the balanced growth incidence of a capital tax used to pay a lump-sum transfer to the working generation ( where ) . |
| 16 | For example , if the sale is a demerger or unbundling process used to counter a hostile bid , timing will be critical . |
| 17 | The process used to coat the recycled material was developed in the USA . |
| 18 | I would get a stocking with a few bits of things in when I was young and Grandma used to make a big cake with white icing , but that would be when Daddy was alive . |
| 19 | This is a bad mistake , as her ex- husband used to do the same thing for real often enough . |
| 20 | If the sample is carefully selected , then the pattern of scores obtained by the sample ought to provide a close match for the pattern of scores which would be obtained if the whole population of children were to be tested . |
| 21 | THE CURRENT recession has certainly laid to rest forever the myth that public relations is a lightweight ‘ luxury ’ service used to indulge the chief executive . |
| 22 | He managed to increase the staff in two ways ; first by getting the endowment for the chair of Greek freed from the attachment to a canonry and then the endowment of the canonry used to give a second professorship of theology ; secondly by persuading the vice-chancellor to find money for a lectureship in New Testament studies . |
| 23 | People have mentioned that Madame used to have a dancing session there do you remember this ? |
| 24 | The simplest method is to relax the assumption of a fixed price level used to locate the real money supply in Fig. 10–2(a) . |
| 25 | The fundamental technique used to analyse the monetary aspect of these decisions is called relevant costing . |
| 26 | In response to its publication , the Energy Secretary , James D. Watkins , ordered his officials to prepare a detailed action plan to control emissions of tritium ( a radioactive isotope of hydrogen used to enhance the explosive power of nuclear warheads ) . |
| 27 | Wholesome cooking used to mean a whole lot of work … not least of it , reaching up to the grill , and scrubbing away at the oven and hotplate . |
| 28 | Democracy ought to entail the free exercise of informed choice . |
| 29 | Whatever the method used to discover a new site , the most important element is to record its position and any other details that might be apparent at the time of discovery . |
| 30 | In future , it will be possible for borrowers to transfer the mortgage interest relief on the loan used to buy the original home to the mortgage on the new home . |