Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.4 In the majority of situations it should be possible to diffuse potentially violent confrontations by non physical means . |
| 2 | It is not clear whether or not Harris thinks that children of 10 should be obliged to take on full political status whether or not they want to , but Holt clearly does not . |
| 3 | I agree wholeheartedly , with what we were saying , what we do n't want to see is a whole one house block in the countryside , he wants to see it as part of a farmstead and order to prove that it 's going to be part of a farmstead , the buildings should be prerequisite to go up first before the house does . |
| 4 | And then , by about four months performance you should be able to do about ten metres whatever , you can do . |
| 5 | She should be able to do far better for herself than that . |
| 6 | The Common Desktop Environment means that users would not have to worry about different install methods and should be able to move around different Unix environments without much retraining . |
| 7 | As the conditions in a large tank are more stable , Robin would find it easier to learn about keeping his fish , and should be able to sort out any problems before they became disasters . |
| 8 | Unless you 've been calling my bluff since day one , you should be able to see off any mere mortal who rubs us up the wrong way . ’ |
| 9 | The integration of mentally disabled people into society means that persons with mental handicaps of any degree should be able to live as normal a life as possible . |
| 10 | The program supports HP LaserJets , DeskJets , Canon BubbleJets , Epson and IBM dot matrix or any printer compatible with these , so you should be able to use almost any printer on the market . |
| 11 | It is in fact NACAB policy that advice workers should be able to carry out some limited counselling functions and they do run training to that end . |
| 12 | Buxton … says police should be able to carry out random breath tests . |
| 13 | The men have been exhaustively briefed on drop zones and emergency procedures , as well as the ground plan , to the extent that any man or unit should be able to carry out another 's task . |
| 14 | In his view , they should be able to undertake more thorough investigations and be placed in a position to ask children and parents about their plans for the future . |
| 15 | Schools should be able to request more frequent inspections so that the best practice of a few is not brought down to the standard practice of the many . |
| 16 | If a child 's vision report gives a figure of distance vision as 6/24 and near vision as N8 with corrective glasses , this would indicate that the pupil should be able to read quite small print , but has a lowered visual acuity in terms of distance vision . |
| 17 | I said how surprising it was that even in a small society like ours we should be able to throw up any number of superior people to replace those lost in the normal or abnormal attrition of life . |
| 18 | 17.33 With regard to spelling , the aim should be that by the end of compulsory schooling pupils should be able to spell confidently most of the words they are likely to need to use frequently in their writing ; to recognise those aspects of English spelling that are systematic ; to make a sensible attempt to spell words that they have not seen before ; to check their work for misspellings and to use a dictionary appropriately . |
| 19 | ‘ If we have another couple of the big shires , they should be able to paddle down enough of the snow for the rest to follow on foot . ’ |
| 20 | Before one can start arguing about how strong materials ought to be one should be able to measure how strong they actually are . |
| 21 | If , on the other hand , there are pressures on the salesperson , perhaps because of low sales returns , then a buyer should be able to extract extremely favourable terms during negotiations in return for purchasing from him . |
| 22 | The enlarged group should be able to produce both good returns for shareholders and a raising of programme standards on Northern TV screens . |
| 23 | Her Department should act on the recommendation that local officers should be able to top up that gap for claimants if no other resources are available . |
| 24 | Certainly , the counsellor should be able to discuss sensitively such topics as sexual feelings and need , masturbation , oral sex , etc. , whenever it is relevant or necessary to do so . |
| 25 | The health services will know of people treated for psychiatric illnesses and a follow-up service or routine visit from community nurses should be able to recognise obviously unsatisfactory living circumstances . |
| 26 | The social services department should be able to fit even ordinary radiators with some sort of guard , so that if you should fall against them and be unable to move , you are not pinned against something that is uncomfortably or dangerously hot . |
| 27 | But d-i-y treatment will go a long way towards keeping rot at bay , and you should be prepared to give freshly exposed cut surfaces of both cladding and battens an extra coat of preservative during installation for extra protection . |
| 28 | Though inspectors have no enforcement powers , Wing believed they should be free to point out difficult areas of practice . |
| 29 | This , explained Sir Gordon Borrie in his 1986 Rathbone Memorial Lecture , was that everyone should be free to obtain as much credit as he could get , on the easiest terms available on the market . |
| 30 | That 's that 's the present case , but I think er impact would say that with a fifty-fifty split , then those trustees should elect their own chairman and should be free to bring in independent trustees , so if you had a board of say four company members and four elected by the members er of the pension fund , they might decide to have two outside independents , one of which they would choose as the Chairman . |