Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first job should be to draw up the Institute 's environment charter . |
| 2 | Critics of the DAS claimed that his first task should be to root out the corruption within it and halt the systematic abuses of human rights by its police officers . |
| 3 | The next step could be to set down the factors which are important about where you live and then award them points on a sliding scale , ten for the very important , down to one . |
| 4 | Molly and Peggy introduced children 's classes from the earliest days of Medau — how fascinating it would be to turn back the clock and take a look at those Hampstead and Sidcup children ! |
| 5 | We noted earlier that the immediate effect of increased investment in investment trusts would be to push up the price of their shares without resulting in any extra flow of funds from savers to borrowers . |
| 6 | The main effect of an enzyme , altering b1 to b2 , would be to speed up the rate at which bonds were broken . |
| 7 | One tempting remedy would be to speed up the SFO 's act . |
| 8 | The function of a written constitution would be to set down the laws and conventions relating to the main institutions of the state , the relations among them , and between them and private citizens . |
| 9 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |
| 10 | One way of avoiding most of the problems associated with legislative guide-lines , while still ensuring a reasonable degree of control over the way sentencers exercise their discretion , would be to hand over the task of preparing the guide-lines to an independent sentencing commission or council , of the kind proposed by Ashworth ( 1993a : 447 , 1997 : 91 ) . |
| 11 | So one of your responses would be to bring in the privatization card and put a lot of this out to tender ? |
| 12 | A better move , would be to shore up the defence , Ken Monku might move considering Southampton position . |
| 13 | ‘ The fascinating thing ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ would be to find out the real limit of this power of yours . |
| 14 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |
| 15 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 16 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 17 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |
| 18 | ‘ Our only escape would be to climb down the face of the rock ; but … ’ her eyes rested on Adam ’ … your brother could not do it , mortal . |
| 19 | Mr Ciampi 's first priority will be to carry out the electoral reforms overwhelmingly endorsed by Italian voters by referendum in mid April . |
| 20 | An answer to these questions , if a satisfactory answer is to be possible at all , can not be given except as part of a theory of reality , and my purpose in the following pages will be to sketch out the fundamentals of just such a theory . |
| 21 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 22 | The effect will be to drive up the exchange rate . |
| 23 | The next , more difficult step will be to clean up the mess . |
| 24 | One of his tasks will be to bring in the national lottery . |
| 25 | In the case of a company limited by shares , normally the only liability imposed on a shareholder as such will be to pay up the nominal value of the shares and any premium in so far as payment has not already been made by a previous holder . |
| 26 | A solution to this can be to cut down the skeg , as this provides the resistance at the back of the board . |