Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear of encroachments by the government or the armed forces on the liberty of the subject , coupled with a feeling that it was unjust that one particular group should be singled out for treatment in this way , combined to defeat all such suggestions . |
| 2 | One point should be noted here concerning scope . |
| 3 | In 1348 they demanded free trade in wool , and in 1351 achieved a definitive victory when the king agreed that the maltote should be granted only in parliament and that all merchants should be permitted to deal in wool ‘ without being restricted by those merchants who call themselves the king 's merchants ’ . |
| 4 | All should be prepared just in case . |
| 5 | The battens should be screwed loosely into position and then checked to see if they present a flat vertical surface . |
| 6 | We believe mothers should be treated equally by government , whether they work outside the home or not . |
| 7 | The book claimed that cancer and other deformities were mistaken wills , were new organs to meet new needs dreamed up in the deep unconscious , and that therefore they should be treated not with surgery but with interest and affection — humanity was limiting its potential by cutting out the tumours , blasting the cells . |
| 8 | The attack on the trade union movement check-off our , our existence the existence of the trade union movement is under attack union membership and others the shipyard workers at Swan Hunter the thousands of local authority workers who have lost their jobs those are the issues in which our parliamentary party should be addressing now on behalf of our people ! |
| 9 | This course should be adopted only in case of absolute necessity , and you should be able to plan out your time so that it is not necessary . |
| 10 | In all cases , except glacier travel , it is appropriate for the leader to carry the spare coils , but where there is a crevasse danger the spore rope should be split equally between front and rear members . |
| 11 | The closing date for the receipt in Faculty Offices of completed Exceptional Admissions application forms is 1st March , but enquiry should be made well in advance ; normally applicants must also apply through UCAS . |
| 12 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 13 | Requests for consumables ( ribbons , disks etc ) , software and small hardware items should be made only in writing , using the requisition forms which have been supplied to Department and Section heads . |
| 14 | These juveniles should be feeding well on daphnia , brine shrimp and bloodworm , though the bloodworm will tend to be ignored once it has sunk . |
| 15 | In linguistics , especially in the English-speaking world between the 1930s and 1960s , there have been several schools of thought which believe that context — this knowledge of the world outside language which we use to interpret it — should be ruled out of language analysis as far as possible . |
| 16 | Although the chosen noise should initially be loud enough to gain the baby 's attention , it should be turned down to background level after 30 seconds . |
| 17 | Unless the glider is going to be launched without delay , it should be turned out of wind and held with the into-wind wing down until it is needed . |
| 18 | Network stations should be upgraded only to DOS 5 . |
| 19 | If it is thought that the exclusive jurisdiction of the visitor has outlived its usefulness , which I beg to doubt , then I think that it should be swept away by Parliament and not undermined by judicial review . |
| 20 | Rather , each patient should be assessed individually before operation with respect to his or her general fitness for major surgery , motivation to avoid an ileostomy , and clinical function of the anal sphincter . |
| 21 | The third component should be written off against profit if it represents an overpayment or transferred to reserves if an underpayment . |
| 22 | Most educated people in this country now believe , in a vague sort of way , that we ought to be less sexually prudish than the Victorians are alleged to have been , and that sexual morality should be guarded rather by example and exhortation than by penal sanctions . |
| 23 | Government agencies , local communities and conservation groups have agreed that 24 square kilometres of the former swamp should be given over to conservation and tourism . |
| 24 | The arrangements for the expatriate and his family 's passage to and from the UK and for periods of leave during the assignment should be given together with information on the location of airports/ports . |
| 25 | In some cases — for example , maternal pyrexia and prolonged rupture of membranes — the rapid test is unnecessary and antibiotics should be given regardless of carriage . |
| 26 | The pipes should be supported regularly with plastic pipe clips : for l5mm pipe this means every 1.2m ( 4ft ) for horizontal runs and every 1.8m ( 6ft ) for vertical runs ( corresponding figures for 22mm pipe are 1.8m and 2.4m/6ft and 8ft ) . |
| 27 | 2 The Tenders list is held at reception and all tenders which arrive should be ticked off in pencil on the list at reception . |
| 28 | This should be conducted soon after admission to hospital to assess the effect of commonly consumed alcoholic beverages on gastrin release and gastric acid secretion and the results should be compared with gastric histology . |
| 29 | Thus , the aim with most patients should be to move eventually from assessment and support into a problem-solving approach as described in Chapter 5 . |
| 30 | This principle , that within each diplomatic rank ( ambassador , minister-resident , etc. ) precedence should be decided merely by seniority , was to lead more than half a century later , by the international convention of 1818 , to a final solution of most of the issues on which for generations so many energies had been expended and so much ink spilt . |