Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adj] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since students should by now be comparatively well-informed about basic segmental phonetics , it is very important that their production and recognition of this vowel should be good before moving on to the following chapters . |
| 2 | In a literary essay , however , you should be cautious about leaving out the actor in a passive sentence . |
| 3 | Nobody should be subject to bouncing over humps in heavy vehicles which do not possess the suspension of a motor car , be it passenger or driver . |
| 4 | Kadish has managed five-electron reductions of C60 ( although theory suggests that this molecule should be capable of accepting up to six electrons into its lowest unoccupied molecular orbital ) . |
| 5 | Power for this method is best supplied by one or more external canister filters , which should be capable of turning over the tank water at least three times each hour . |
| 6 | The hardware of this music machine should be capable of playing back the composition in the sounds of the instruments for which it was written . |
| 7 | It is suggested that either each adjoining tenant should be responsible for carrying out repairs to half the structure or the landlord should be responsible for carrying out all the repairs , subject to reimbursement of the cost of so doing . |
| 8 | It is suggested that either each adjoining tenant should be responsible for carrying out repairs to half the structure or the landlord should be responsible for carrying out all the repairs , subject to reimbursement of the cost of so doing . |
| 9 | In R. v. Monopolies and Mergers Commission , ex parte Argyll Group plc Lord Donaldson MR said that courts must show ‘ a proper awareness of the needs of public administration ’ : a court should be wary of striking down a decision if it is clear that the same decision would have been made even if the decision-maker had not acted unlawfully ; or if doing so would unduly delay the conduct of government business ; or if members of the public are likely already to have relied on the challenged decision ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's motivation in making the application was improper or vexatious or frivolous . |
| 10 | As more and more shops go out of business , shoppers should be wary of putting down a cash deposit . |
| 11 | There is another formulation of essentially the same proposal : semantics should be concerned with meaning out of context , or non-context-dependent meaning , and pragmatics with meaning in context . |
| 12 | Of course we must be cautious about taking on difficult tasks as if to prove our social virility . |
| 13 | The phase-locked-loop circuit therefore must be capable of operating down to frequencies below f1 . |
| 14 | And with the large capital invetment involved , the customer depends on the fact that any new model must be capable of taking on the task in hand without difficulty — there is no room for mere gimmicks . |
| 15 | We shall welcome suggestions from private companies on services which might be suitable for contracting out , and on ways of improving contracting out procedures . |
| 16 | While most people might be familiar with throwing out mouldy bread and mouldy cheese , like my friends all around me , I was continually having to throw out mouldy furniture , clothes and toys and found myself having to choose between feeding my hungry children or hungry fuel meters which kept demanding more and more money . |
| 17 | Erm , the method that we 're likely to use , or might be successful in bringing about this change , and once we 've done it how it 's likely to be effective . |
| 18 | To do this in the College study , each activity drawn out from the model was itemised , and a judgment made as to who , or which functional group , might be responsible for carrying out the task if it existed . |
| 19 | And then it 'll be ready for printing out . |
| 20 | Medical researchers believe they could be close to pinning down the cause of hereditary asthma . |
| 21 | This seemed a far more promising environment , and we quickly accepted the couple 's invitation to abandon our base in Makassar and move in with them in Bira , since it would clearly take many more weeks of negotiating before we could be sure of coming up with a prahu , and a crew , reliable enough to carry us eastwards . |
| 22 | But the conditions of farming in a largely self-sufficient community , where needs could be satisfied without moving out of the village , made for at least a formal unity in the rural group . |
| 23 | Teresa 's on about erm a she were asking me if anybody 'd be interested into going on to higher er education after this ? |
| 24 | If you 're seriously trying to arrange a trip I 'd be interested in popping up ( a good excuse to visit my parents in sunny Harrogate ) . |
| 25 | I wonder if they 'd be interested in putting out a revised edition ? ’ |
| 26 | They may be worried about how to be gay , but far fewer of them are as desperate not to be and though they may be afraid of reaching out to the gay world , mostly they know it exists . |
| 27 | ‘ And some may be worried about taking on a player with his record . |
| 28 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 29 | Doing so , they argue , would be tantamount to giving up the intifada and accepting the continuation of military rule , without a firm promise that Israel would eventually withdraw . |
| 30 | Keating told the Dalai Lama that while Australia recognized Chinese sovereignty over Tibet , his government would be forthright in speaking out against human rights abuses . |