Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Safeguards should be available to protect individual investors and ensure that all parties to a takeover are treated equally . |
| 2 | It should be possible to draw international comparisons . |
| 3 | Where new technology can be used in such a way to reduce assets and lead times , it should be possible to establish reliable measures of investment benefits . |
| 4 | If combination is atomic , then it should be possible to symbolize chemical compounds , and to set out chemical reactions in a kind of algebra . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in areas where a carbonate platform is developed , as in N.E. England and the southern North Sea , a similar model to that applied to Z2 and Z3 Carbonates presumably can be used , and it should be possible to make tentative predictions of porosity distribution from isopach maps ( Fig. 4a ) . |
| 6 | They are , first , that it should be possible to distinguish different forms of latent inhibition based on associative and non-associative mechanisms , the former being short-lived and the latter more nearly permanent . |
| 7 | Although the scribes no doubt made ‘ errors ’ , it should be possible to investigate variable texts in extenso to determine the extent to which variation in spelling ( or indeed in other linguistic dimensions ) is in fact orderly , and whether this variation can help us to work out what might have been happening in spoken English at the time . |
| 8 | Tatarinov argued that all ministries and other governmental institutions should be obliged to produce detailed estimates for the year ahead at the time they submitted their annual accounts . |
| 9 | At the end of 1989 following a meeting with Lancashire County Council Transport Department it was agreed that the minibus bringing children to Scorton School should be able to take fare-paying passengers to the A6 to connect with the bus services to Lancaster and Preston . |
| 10 | I like to think that one can make provision to eat almost anywhere in the home , just as one should be able to move small tables about to different parts of the garden It is obviously nice to be able to eat in the kitchen or in the living room . |
| 11 | Callières urged that young Frenchmen , if they could not meet the cost themselves , should be able to see other countries as members of the entourages of French ambassadors or envoys " according to the practice of the Spaniards and Italians who look upon it as an honour for them to accompany the ministers of their master in these sorts of voyages " . |
| 12 | Is it too much to ask that in 2023 , the historian confronting a machine-readable run of the Financial Times ( FT ) , 1993–2003 should be able to perform serial calculations with the stock prices quoted therein without having to re-enter or extensively edit the data ? |
| 13 | ‘ The council has always been a very moderate spender in the past and we should be able to undertake new initiatives this year . |
| 14 | Talk to your tutor or clinical teacher who should be able to recommend helpful books in your library . |
| 15 | To keep route descriptions in this area reasonably compact and unambiguous , Brunnen , on the north-east corner of the lake , will be assumed as the starting-point , but visitors based on other centres between Luzern and Brunnen should be able to make necessary adjustments . |
| 16 | If they wish to do so , companies should be able to have non-executive directors who do not have the same legal responsibility for its activities as do other directors . |
| 17 | This exception is directed at rationalizing the British Leyland case and it allows for the fact that persons who buy items of equipment may need replacement parts in time and should be able to obtain spare parts in a free market at reasonable cost . |
| 18 | The Bank , in pursuance of its functions under the Act of 1987 , is concerned that it should be able to assist overseas supervisors for the purposes set out above . |
| 19 | If there are points of ‘ topic-shift ’ in English written discourse which lead writers , or their editors , to begin new orthographic paragraphs , then we should be able to identify likely points where the writer or the editor marked the division of this ‘ text ’ into separate chunks . |
| 20 | Nithard thought a good king should be able to handle competing claims fairly , and maintain solidarity among nobles whose rivalries might otherwise tear the realm apart . |
| 21 | Children and overseas students should be able to learn new words without constant assistance or confinement to a restricted vocabulary . |
| 22 | We both agree that he should be able to offer favourable terms for the hire of the slope for the proposed event , provided it is at an off-peak time . |
| 23 | Having identified the gaps under the present system , it should be easier to formulate realistic policies for extending the provision of legal services throughout rural Britain . |
| 24 | It should be easier to get minor repairs done than at present . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems to me that people who worry about their responsibilities and mind about the consequences of their actions should be prepared to take senior jobs . |
| 26 | Surveyors in other parts of Britain should be prepared to offer similar deals . |
| 27 | A spokesman for the theatre group said : ‘ You should be prepared to work full days over a three week period with at least one week 's production work . |
| 28 | Further , the original theory of nationalization put forward by the Attlee Government after 1945 stressed that corporations should be free to take commercial risks in a way that would be inappropriate for government departments . |
| 29 | Surely prosecutorial discretion should be enough to prevent unfair convictions years after the event . |
| 30 | If the methylated residues were involved in protein binding , mutated oligonucleotides should be unable to form retarded complexes as observed with wild type sequences . |