Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " 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 | It should be something this committee erm tends |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By rights , then , ‘ Our Time In Eden ’ should be their best record yet . |
| 8 | Partisanship should be their middle name . |
| 9 | An important feature of long leys should be their deep-rooting ability . |
| 10 | It seemed absolutely logical that that ‘ something ’ should be her new career , but the schools had a different idea . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Though it should be her own lack of will-power she was cursing , she admitted . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Naturally , I felt her comfort should be my first consideration . |
| 16 | But that that should be my last memory of her ! |
| 17 | Every District Land Registry sends its replies by first-class mail , often by return of post , to all searches received by first-class post ; therefore it should be your invariable practice to send your requisition by first-class mail , too ; otherwise , being delivered by second delivery ( and sometimes later than that ) , it will only be dealt with the following day . |
| 18 | The Health Service Centre should be your first port of call for all general career enquiries as it disseminates information on both basic and postbasic nursing education . |
| 19 | If despite all this , you still want one , accommodation should be your first concern , so we 'll start with basics . |
| 20 | Good paint schemes and carefully chosen lettering should be your first option . |
| 21 | Will he also accept that this should be his personal responsibility ? |
| 22 | Some of the objectives should be his own proposals . |
| 23 | Maisie had asked her to ‘ look after the childer ’ , and that must be her main concern . |
| 24 | Stuart must be their best friend . |
| 25 | sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record . |
| 26 | These feelings are reinforced by dominant social ideas of individual pathology , that is , if something is going wrong in their lives it must be their own fault . |
| 27 | One must be our lousy breastfeeding rates . |
| 28 | Such an historical perspective must be our long-term goal , even though for the present we can at best only hypothesize about the nature of the development processes at work . |
| 29 | It must be our favourite song at the time and ‘ Once More ’ was , but in retrospect , it is probably my least favourite single . |
| 30 | For our purposes the special strength of the evidence from the interviews , as from the autobiographies , is for relationships within the family , and those must be our main concern here . |