Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the strictly limited purpose of deciding whether Ward J. 's decision should be affirmed or reversed , it suffices to say that an appellate court should always be slow to reject a trial judge 's findings of fact , he having had the advantage of seeing and hearing the witnesses , and that it should be even slower to do so if any findings which it would be minded to substitute would lead to the same result . |
| 2 | First , the long term investor ( the one , Manne suggests , we should be most keen to protect ) must actually be selling for reasons other than to make a quick profit . |
| 3 | If there is any separate documentation or further material useful to our Working Party , we should be most grateful to receive it . |
| 4 | In addition , samples containing granulomatous lesions from patients with acute disease should be most likely to contain a causative pathogen . |
| 5 | If any reader had found any items relating to the Bristol and Gloucestershire volunteers of any period , I should be most interested to hear from them , and would give what advice I could . |
| 6 | Given the right water conditions and set-up they should be reasonably easy to breed , and a protein rich diet should help bring them into spawning condition . |
| 7 | The search for such a planet has proved unsuccessful — which is something of a mystery , because a planet of that size should be reasonably easy to find . |
| 8 | These concerned matters that were a pure technicality ( being allowed to run an advertisement that they would have had no intention of ever running again ) and a virtual truism ( being told that future circumstances may arise in which they should be reasonably able to readdress the issues at hand ) . |
| 9 | However , if the draftsman wishes to make time of the essence of some but not all of the procedural steps he should be particularly careful to make it clear which steps carry strict time limits and which do not ( as the draftsman failed to do in Bradley ( C ) & Sons Ltd v Telefusion Ltd ( 1981 ) 259 EG 337 and Art & Sound v West End Litho [ 1992 ] 1 EGLR 138 ) . |
| 10 | Small parties in Britain should be particularly interested to observe how the Alliance might have fared under the WGMS in the last two general elections . |
| 11 | The true intention of the parties … was that they should be jointly liable to make … payments . |
| 12 | One area in which the advisory team made its views on curriculum clear was the way classrooms should be physically disposed to deliver curriculum breadth and flexibility . |
| 13 | The relationship in both cases with the opposing image is both subtle and sensitive , but surely each image should be equally able to stand in its own space , on its own merit . |
| 14 | We can judge this by the massively negative emotions aroused within us by little pin-pricks that we should be easily able to take . |
| 15 | The company and employees should be justifiably proud to demonstrate their skills and sense of purpose at any time . |
| 16 | The demand that theories should be highly falsifiable has the attractive consequence that theories should be clearly stated and precise . |
| 17 | For a Christian , it should be almost impossible to judge which changes have been brought about by the marriage and which have been brought about by the love of God . |
| 18 | John Major was right when he said Britain as a nation should be more prepared to condemn crime , but wrong when he suggested we should be less concerned to understand it . |
| 19 | By providing them with detailed information they should be less likely to offer impractical advice . |
| 20 | John Major was right when he said Britain as a nation should be more prepared to condemn crime , but wrong when he suggested we should be less concerned to understand it . |
| 21 | the matching process should be more stringent to ensure students are allocated to the correct classroom situation ; |
| 22 | So , for example , in football , whites should be more suited to take penalty and free kicks ( self-paced ) and blacks to more spontaneous out-field range shooting ( reactive ) . |
| 23 | Whatever was to be , I should be more able to cope with it . |
| 24 | Consideration there must still be but in my judgment the courts nowadays should be more ready to find its existence so as to reflect the intention of the parties to the contract where the bargaining powers are not unequal and where the finding of consideration reflects the true intention of the parties . |
| 25 | Nine out of 14 believed parents should be more strict to stop their offspring developing such criminal tendencies . |
| 26 | Should be very nice to have the money . |
| 27 | We should be very ill-advised to build too much on by-election votes . |
| 28 | Lord Chesterfield , when discussing ‘ useful prejudices … which I should be very sorry to see removed ’ a little after the previous war , had declared that ‘ that silly , sanguine notion , which is firmly entertained here , that one Englishman can beat three Frenchmen , encourages and has sometimes enabled one Englishman in reality to beat two . ’ |
| 29 | The Foreign Office drafted and sent a personal reply form Churchill that may have given the Shah way amusement as well as comfort " … while we do not interfere in Persian politics we should be very sorry to see the Shah driven out . |
| 30 | ‘ There is compelling and overwhelming force in the submission of the Official Solicitor that this court , exercising its prerogative of protection , should be very slow to allow an infant to martyr himself . |