Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1887 he was invited to Kensington chapel , where he was ordained 17 October 1889 : determined that Horne should be its minister , Kensington waited eighteen months for him to complete his course . |
| 2 | De Gaulle made limited overtures to all sides — offering the FLN an honourable truce ( " paix des braves " ) but refusing to negotiate with it as a political force ; throwing some rhetorical sops to the integrationists but refusing to embrace the cause of integration ; telling the army that outright victory should be its objective , but also saying that no resolution reached against the will of the Algerian people would endure for long . |
| 3 | Indeed , most of the intelligentsia assumed outright that the post-war society would be a socialist society , and that one of the chief justifications for fighting the war was that socialism should be its outcome . |
| 4 | I do n't think it should become too academic , it should be whatever people want at the grassroots level , we have a couple of thousand years of patriarchy behind us and we 're not going to change things overnight . |
| 5 | Ramsay interrupted to ask what should be their plan if they found the camp roused — even though there was still no indication of this ? |
| 6 | King Edward III successfully restored English ascendancy along the border with Scotland but the death of his uncle caused division among the French as to who should be their King in his place , so Edward III made a claim to the throne , hoping at the same time , to break the link between the French and the Scots . |
| 7 | Ultimately , what should be their response to the fragmenting of demand in the different directions of " real ale " , pilsner lager , the decline of mild ale , and the increased consumption of wine and cocktail drinks ? |
| 8 | Let us begin by trying to answer the question about what kind of company they wish to be , and what should be their strategy . |
| 9 | She stands as the martyr of organized and systematic sexual wrong-doing on the part of the man who should be her mate , and whom alone she has evolved to the human plane . |
| 10 | She was becoming more and more convinced teaching should be her career . |
| 11 | The reader 's question of a book or an article should be what function the writing is able or unable to perform ? |
| 12 | The term can mean " noble " , and " generous " , and no doubt in realistic terms this should be what Margery wishes to say of herself . |
| 13 | It is obvious that a suitable norm of comparison should be what Enkvist calls " a contextually related norm " There would be little point in comparing Jane Austen 's style with that of contemporary legal writs or twentieth-century parliamentary reports . |
| 14 | Teaching through stimulation and enjoyment should be our stock-in-trade . |
| 15 | If this is the correct moral framework for punishment , what should be our judgement on our current penal practices ? |
| 16 | These become the gardens and orchards of the mind and are the supreme creations of the human being and it should be our life 's task to tend our wild vines and taste the berries that hang in profusion in their many coloured flasks . |
| 17 | But we believe the market should be our servant not our master . |
| 18 | Even without this problem , it should be our objective to advance negotiations , contract drafting and due diligence as far as possible with the preferred bidder before the remaining offerers realise that they have been unsuccessful . |
| 19 | Normality should be our aim too , but spartan endurance in the face of pain is not the answer . |
| 20 | This quality of inevitability and rightness should be our aim in harmonizations , and we should cultivate simplicity and directness rather than fussiness and complexity . |
| 21 | I was told I should lend that classroom to them I ca n't ge really get out first and that should be my turn to be out first today . |
| 22 | Did you not agree she should be my chambermaid ? |
| 23 | The best-known instance is from the second century , the will of Longinus Castor ( AD 189 ) , which includes the words : ‘ Whoever should be my heir , let him be obliged to give , do , and perform all that is written in this my will , and I entrust that to his faith . ’ |
| 24 | , it should be my time . |
| 25 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |
| 26 | She could think only : It should be my mother sitting up there , with my brother beside her . |
| 27 | The form of service and the choice of hymns , if any , should be your parent 's , and if she is hoping to see her husband 's coffin surrounded by flowers on its last journey , nobody should suggest to her that she should instead consider asking relatives and friends to send donations to a suitable charity , for this may upset her deeply , and if she gives in to it , it may become a burning resentment in her later on . |
| 28 | This year — 1992 — should be your year . |
| 29 | ‘ Lord , ’ he said , ‘ it is fitting that the ambassador should be your man , and not mine . ’ |
| 30 | However , your first resort in any query concerning the verification process should be your systems verifier . |