Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision , less than a year after Egypt 's readmission to the Arab League at the 1989 Casablanca summit [ see p. 36669 ] , followed intensive lobbying by Egyptian diplomats who claimed that in terms of the League 's founding charter , Cairo should be its permanent home , and refurbishing of the League 's former headquarters on the banks of the Nile was already well under way . |
| 2 | A sport 's first concern , Pascoe says , should be its own development and that means presenting itself in the best possible way . |
| 3 | Healing should be its own reward and not the means of converting patients . |
| 4 | There should be nothing surprising about this . |
| 5 | There should be nothing surprising about this : in a competitive market , where the number of would-be senior academics considerably exceeds the posts available , an ‘ objective ’ means is required to allocate the scarce goods . |
| 6 | The Benelux states , however , wanted a more decisive effort , and suggested that instead of further sectoral integration to supplement the ECSC , the target should be nothing less than a comprehensive economic community . |
| 7 | He treated her with the greatest courtesy , concerned that she should not be tired , or bored ; that the holiday should be nothing less than perfect . |
| 8 | It should be something useful for setting up home , if only a rather expensive bottle-opener , possibly with other small mementoes of his favourite bachelor activities or sport such as golf balls , presented inside something amusing and clearly feminine but not in bad taste , such as a pair of stockings , with a blue garter for him to give to his bride for the wedding so that she can wear ‘ something borrowed , something blue , . |
| 9 | And it 's even better because I 've outwitted the TEAM , and there should be something good on tele tonight , and I wonder what there is to eat . |
| 10 | ‘ Well now , let's see , it should be something traditional , characteristic , typical of the region . |
| 11 | It should be something this committee erm tends |
| 12 | yeah and he 's spotted racism in the Atkinson et al textbook and all sorts of , all over the place so erm mm there should be something interesting to talk about in that for a start . |
| 13 | It should be their automatic policy from tonight that anyone in receipt of income support or low incomes equivalent to income support — and , say , 50 , 60 or 70 per cent . |
| 14 | Our true guide should be their perceived needs , their ‘ simple ’ appetitive desires devoid of the human implications that ‘ desire ’ carries with it of being self-conscious . |
| 15 | By rights , then , ‘ Our Time In Eden ’ should be their best record yet . |
| 16 | Partisanship should be their middle name . |
| 17 | An important feature of long leys should be their deep-rooting ability . |
| 18 | Students ' views are not necessarily as good as those of recognized authorities , but it is still essential that the ideas to which students hold should be their own . |
| 19 | It seemed absolutely logical that that ‘ something ’ should be her new career , but the schools had a different idea . |
| 20 | On balance , she felt enough loyalty to Gilbert and enough concern about Amy to feel that , if she were alive and if she were by any chance a party to her husband 's death , the Church rather than the police should be her first sanctuary . |
| 21 | In the event that no single party enjoys an overall majority in the Commons then the issue of sending for the Prime Minister and refusing a dissolution become matters so charged with political manoeuvring that the Crown would be drawn into politics in a public way that would be bound to invite a keener scrutiny as to what should be her proper role within the British constitution . |
| 22 | Though it should be her own lack of will-power she was cursing , she admitted . |
| 23 | And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be . |
| 24 | I 'm not sure that rock'n'roll should be anything more than joyous noise — maybe ultimately one that means nothing , but then so what … ? ’ |
| 25 | Why this should be our only or even our overriding concern remains as opaque as ever . |
| 26 | ‘ It is wholly appropriate that it should be our final testimony to the qualities that prevail in state education and the resilience and adaptability of ‘ ordinary ’ children . ’ |
| 27 | In 1919 Lawrence had already written to , of all people , Curzon , confiding that his ‘ own ambition ’ was that the Arabs ‘ should be our first brown dominion and not our last brown colony ’ . |
| 28 | Perhaps that should be our first and major point : that BSL should be researched and evaluated as a language , and that this language , though apparently different in medium , shares similar grammatical processes with many spoken languages . |
| 29 | Naturally , I felt her comfort should be my first consideration . |
| 30 | But that that should be my last memory of her ! |