Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phone bookings should be made up to a fortnight in advance on 0229 66063 . |
| 2 | The Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 required that the accounts of direct labour organizations should be made up of a balance sheet , a revenue account , and a statement of rate of return ; and that these accounts show a ‘ true and fair view ’ . |
| 3 | He also rejected the radical free market view , which proposed that each part of the electricity industry ( generation , transmission and distribution ) should be broken up into a large number of competing companies . |
| 4 | Once the soil has been dug , it should be broken up with a fork , hoe , back of a rake , by hand , with a hand fork , or whatever you find most convenient , until it reaches the stage at which raking it backwards and forwards , and then crossways , reduces it to the fine tilth described . |
| 5 | Any surface oil not absorbed after 10–15 minutes should be blotted off with a tissue . |
| 6 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 7 | THE 43 police forces in England and Wales should be cut by about a half , one of the country 's most senior officers said yesterday . |
| 8 | Smith therefore felt that the manufacturers ' allocations should be cut back to a more realistic level than the BEA 's plant-ordering programme , while he allocated more steel for the foundation and building work on power station sites which was the bottleneck . |
| 9 | Any essential communication should be sent in writing and all letters of acceptance should be sent in as a matter of urgency . |
| 10 | Ideally some of the training centres should be phased out with a view to developing more flexible training arrangements for a wider range of young people who may or may not be mentally handicapped . |
| 11 | Advisers say the change — aimed at meeting European Community moves towards equality for the sexes — should be phased in over a 15-year period . |
| 12 | Arnica is a winner with sprains as well and that should be followed up with a course of Rhus Tox . |
| 13 | Every loan should be followed up after a certain period of time . |
| 14 | Pétain , he recommended , should now be put in command not only of the Left Bank , but of the Right Bank as well ; the ‘ fatigued ’ General Herr should be kept on for a while as Pétain 's adviser , then quietly ‘ limogé ’ . |
| 15 | The inside of the fitting should be brushed out with a special wire brush and rubbed with wire wool . |
| 16 | Reductions in support levels should be carried out at a pace that gives efficient farmers time to adjust and diversify . |
| 17 | Dr McGowan , the Chief Medical Officer , reported to the County Secretary that there was no immediate danger to the public health but called as a matter of urgency for a resolution to the problem , as lead is a cumulative poison : ‘ The continual exposure of people to such high levels of lead is a definite health hazard and remedies to have this matter rectified should be carried out as a matter of urgency ’ . |
| 18 | Planning exhibitions should be carried out within a rolling three-year cycle , so that strategic , management , budgetary , horticultural , and logistic aspects can be incorporated in a professional manner well ahead of time . |
| 19 | The truth is that aircraft accident investigation should be carried out in a completely impartial and objective manner . |
| 20 | All these operations should be carried out in a fume cupboard as the vapours are harmful , and surgical gloves should be used to protect the hands from the dye . |
| 21 | All operations involving HF should be carried out in a fume cupboard , and the operator protected with gloves and goggles . |
| 22 | Hence it was decided that the pathway should be set up as a small demonstration project only and be fully evaluated before its concepts were more widely introduced into the school . |
| 23 | So ‘ Hammer ’ , a tempestuous saga of death by lustful adventure should be picked up by a Channel 4 researcher and used on an equally graphic AIDS documentary . |
| 24 | What I will say , though , is that I think we killed off Kilmarnock 's challenge at the week-end and , if we do n't go up now , we should be put up against a wall and shot . ’ |
| 25 | Most difficult to resolve in the struggle for jurisdiction over clerks who were charged with crimes was whether they could be tried twice , as clause three of the royal Constitutions of Clarendon ( 1164 ) outlined , first in the king 's court and then in the church court , and whether , if found guilty , they should be handed over to a civil court for the passing of the sentence . |
| 26 | For instance , there is the strict requirement of English that postnominal adjectives should be marked off by a pause in speech and by commas in writing , if and only if they are non-restrictive ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 27 | Still , I should be coming in for a tidy sum of compensation . |
| 28 | The infamous Clause 28 , forbidding teachers to ‘ promote ’ homosexuality , tends to be supported by those who believe there is such a thing as classical sex — one proper , heterosexual way of doing it , which should be drummed in like a correct French accent . |
| 29 | Deliberate destruction of the environment in times of war should be declared a war crime and a Geneva Convention on the protection of nature in times of war should be drawn up as a matter of urgency . |
| 30 | The documentation for this type of arrangement should be drawn up by a solicitor experienced in such matters . |