Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] [that] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minimum this required was that Galileo should be warned that a heliostatic universe had been found formally heretical and that he must no longer hold or defend it . |
| 2 | It should be noted that a similar order of precedence exists in Ashton 's Scènes de Ballet as in Petipa 's The Sleeping Beauty which was supposed to be an evocation of a court ballet at the time of Louis XIV . |
| 3 | But it should be noted that a substantial minority ( 45 per cent ) of single adults caring for such parents were male . |
| 4 | ( None the less , it should be noted that a critical essay of Eliot 's was dismissed because it said " nothing new " three years later. ) 50 A. C. Ward , reviewing a book called The Trend of Modem Poetry in 1936 , notes the impossibility of achieving " neutrality in the face of the conflict between right and left groups in contemporary poetry " , and therefore applauds attempts to " bring the apparently isolated modernists into the main traditional stream of English poetry " . |
| 5 | At this juncture it should be noted that a considerable proportion of international lending does take this latter form . |
| 6 | So it should be assumed that a similar number of those who changed in the ‘ right ’ direction were similarly ill-informed about their new choice , and just happened to end up in the ‘ right ’ group by chance . |
| 7 | The Executive resolved that the Transport Workers ' Federation should be informed that a national strike " would be detrimental to all concerned " , but that if such a call was made the union would hold a ballot before striking . |
| 8 | It should be stressed that a local authority 's corporate planning is only one variable in securing efficient management within a local community . |
| 9 | Underneath all that razzmatazz , the girls sneaked aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach or into his room in Guaruja , there was a man of some sensitivity who felt that both fame and sexual prowess had somehow been thrust upon him ; I think he found both hard to resist , and it must be acknowledged that a chauvinistic British press , his looks , his celebrity and his companions made it hard for him to do anything else than accept the role thrust upon him . |
| 10 | However , it must be recognised that a comprehensive and accurate empirically based resource allocation formula can not be achieved . |
| 11 | It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful . |
| 12 | With these human problems Wordsworth was deeply concerned , though it must be admitted that a superficial reading of his poetry gives the impression that he ran as hard as he could to get away from them . |
| 13 | It must be admitted that a great deal of what Judaeo-Christianity has to say about the ‘ goodness ’ of God is based upon claims about the way in which He involves himself in the historical process . |
| 14 | For people who have any form of addictive disease , care must be taken that a normal , healthy , activity such as eating or physical exercise does not progressively became an obsession through inappropriate use of , and later reliance upon , its mood-altering effect . |
| 15 | Even though it might be argued that a regular life-style implies a regular degree of fatigue and so will require a regular amount of sleep , in practice , such a degree of regularity is not achieved . |
| 16 | It might be argued that a tacit assumption of research which examines girls ' 'failure' in science is not only that girls are inadequate-not measuring up to the standard of boys — but also that maths , physics and chemistry are more difficult and more important than English , languages , history and biology . |
| 17 | Indeed , it might be argued that a fourth Conservative victory , unprecedented in this century , would throw the Labour Party into self-destruction and our democracy into imbalance . |
| 18 | The annual outpatient workloads were also similar , and , assuming a similar case mix of new patients , it might be expected that a similar volume of inpatient work would be generated . |
| 19 | ‘ It might be expected that a substantial proportion of these also involved stolen vehicles , ’ he said . |
| 20 | It might be thought that a larger population would create a larger labour force and market , thereby increasing the level of economic welfare in LDCs ; however , it is essential for other resources ( land , capital and enterprise ) to be available also to generate income and wealth through productive enterprise . |
| 21 | Similarly , it could be argued that a non-party to the Vienna Convention could not rely upon that Convention 's procedural requirements for the manifestation of consent . |
| 22 | Indeed it could be argued that a dynastic conflict involving the interests of the Houses of Orléans , Bourbon , Bonaparte and Hohenzollern was the means chosen to bring down the Empire , even if it was not really the cause . |
| 23 | In the first place it could be argued that a democratic government would not impose unreasonably on minorities ; this exposed the party to Liberal charges that they were indifferent to the Irish Nationalists , but it also exposed the weakness of the government 's position , as Law explained to the Commons in January 1913 : |
| 24 | It could be argued that a poorly performing ICU is unlikely to occur in isolation . |
| 25 | It could be said that a major function of handmade ceramic ware , individually thrown mugs and bowls , is to aid the transition into the automated computer age . |
| 26 | Further , it could be claimed that a phonological analysis is a type of scientific theory , and a scientific theory should be stated as economically as possible . |
| 27 | It could be anticipated that a new united Vietnam might regard neutralisation as a useful device to effect the transition from wartime dependence on external allies to a peacetime independent regional or subregional role . |
| 28 | Indeed , it may be argued that a British group lobbying Parliament demonstrates mainly its lack of access to , or impact on , the core of the policy-making process ( ministers and civil servants ) , unless the lobby is undertaken explicitly for symbolic purposes and in order to attract the attention of the media . |
| 29 | It may be argued that a binding contract was made on the telephone ; if so , any subsequent attempt to introduce new terms into the agreement will be ineffective unless there is a binding variation of the contract , supported by consideration . |
| 30 | Although it may be argued that a meaningful measure of comprehensive income can not be provided unless a full system of current value accounting is employed , the introduction of the SCFW is likely to encourage the preparers of financial statements to move away from the historical cost system and to value relevant assets at current values . |