Example sentences of "[modal v] be [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps one of our tasks should be to examine the extent to which we are complicit in reproducing structural inequalities through the very nature of the work we do . |
| 2 | The strategy should be to enable the group , and its individual members , to discover their own strengths and weaknesses . |
| 3 | For many years its significance was thought to lie in the fact that , while the combiners had to intend to do an unlawful act , it was not necessary that their purpose should be to injure the plaintiff . |
| 4 | The role of the non-disabled workers should be to allow the information to be passed on and to give support to people who want to develop skills and confidence to challenge the barriers they face . |
| 5 | Your aim should be to let the candidate do about 75 per cent of the talking . |
| 6 | The Government 's first move should be to heed the example set by George Brettel and Tony Wilson and immediately freeze their own salaries and those of all MPs . |
| 7 | The aim , I would suggest , should be to politicise the personal , but not in a personalised manner . |
| 8 | The technique in brush application should be to spread the liquid generously over the surface and onto cracks . |
| 9 | In any event , your first priority should be to plumb the depths of the lake , taking note of ledges , holes , ridges , hard- and soft-bottomed areas , and any other features that could prove attractive to bream . |
| 10 | For these reasons , ‘ the task of the left , in relation to the ‘ regional question ’ , should be to demonstrate the class nature of regional problems and state policy and institutions , and expose the use of spatial ideology as a dominant class strategy to split the labour movement . ’ |
| 11 | Former Environment Secretary Jose Lutzenberger argues that the government 's first priority should be to regenerate the soil of the 400,000 square kilometres of the Amazon basin that have already been deforested , rather than encourage the opening up of virgin forest land . |
| 12 | Therefore , as a simple expedient , the object should be to eliminate the 50Hz or 60Hz basic frequency and operate instead at twice this frequency . |
| 13 | So the regulatory tactic should be to ban the risks consensus defines as unacceptable and to impose ( if necessary ) a duty to limit other risks as far as money allows . |
| 14 | Our unified purpose should be to seize the chance when our enemy at home was weak , to sweep the capitalist class out of the way and bring about peace . |
| 15 | Thus every recipient of community care has rights and entitlements , and also responsibilities , and the aim of community care services should be to enhance the ability of an individual to live independently in as ‘ normal ’ a way as possible . |
| 16 | The theories now examined offer an alternative , non-consequentialist justification of corporate power , and argue that the exclusive concern of company law should be to protect the rights of the relevant rights-holders . |
| 17 | And you do know that the data is up to date ( the first instruction given to students when studying bits of weather paper at a number of airfields these days should be to check the date on the top ) . |
| 18 | However , President Ros Marsh said after the Ealing game that the club 's main aim for next season should be to get the As back into the East Super League , where Chelmsford deserved representation . |
| 19 | The general vendor position should be to get the purchaser to specify matters of concern . |
| 20 | In the case of nondepartmental bodies an important objective of the C & AG 's examination should be to review the effectiveness of the arrangements under which ministers monitor and control the payment of public funds to such bodies . |
| 21 | One such should be to lower the limits on the size and frequency of nuclear tests . |
| 22 | The aim at all times should be to have the most accurate estimate of the final cost . |
| 23 | In arriving at the correct mix of full-time to part-time staff the objective should be to determine the best fit between the staff required and the staff available . |
| 24 | High on the list should be to determine the aquarium compatibility ( or otherwise ) of the chosen marine fish species . |
| 25 | The aim should be to help the Commonwealth of Independent States increase oil and gas production as a means of compensation for the loss of nuclear generation . |
| 26 | Pearce considers that one of the main priorities of any top executive should be to develop the managers under him . |
| 27 | Moreover , measures such as the Gini coefficient treat inequalities at different points in the income distribution as equivalent , whereas many development economists have argued that the goal of economic aid should be to meet the basic needs of all the citizens in any country ; this usually involves focusing on how well a society is doing by its poorest members . |
| 28 | These include the natural desire for autonomy by the director who sees his institution as serving national and , indeed , international needs and the equally natural desire of the local council to retain control of what it has always historically regarded as its own institution whose main function should be to meet the needs of the region . |
| 29 | The object objective in six should be to minimize the loss of that land and to take the land in the l in the lower grade within the best and most versatile , rather than the higher grade . |
| 30 | Your first move should be to send the coupon for more information . |