Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim , I would suggest , should be to politicise the personal , but not in a personalised manner . |
| 2 | In arriving at the correct mix of full-time to part-time staff the objective should be to determine the best fit between the staff required and the staff available . |
| 3 | Moreover , measures such as the Gini coefficient treat inequalities at different points in the income distribution as equivalent , whereas many development economists have argued that the goal of economic aid should be to meet the basic needs of all the citizens in any country ; this usually involves focusing on how well a society is doing by its poorest members . |
| 4 | The objectives of these courses should be to make the future teachers aware how much mother tongue learning is accomplished in the years before schooling starts , and critical of the ideas and beliefs about language which are transmitted by the culture . |
| 5 | The aim should be to make the Scottish Vocational Qualifications ‘ passports of excellence ’ which will allow their holders to enjoy a skilled and prosperous future wherever they choose to work . ’ |
| 6 | The aim of such cooperative research should be to produce the improved crop varieties , better livestock breeding lines and farming techniques most suitable to local conditions . |
| 7 | Rather , the duty of the constitutional lawyer must be to analyse the legal foundations of the British constitution in a methodical manner . |
| 8 | The trick must be to allow the Soviet Union 's ideological humiliation not to be turned into a strategic one . |
| 9 | My first task must be to review the relevant authorities . |
| 10 | Will he also tell him that the first priority must be to reform the common agricultural policy , to remove the losses from fraud which occur within that policy and , especially , to bring about a successful conclusion to the GATT negotiations ? |
| 11 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 12 | The EEB declaration makes it clear that European environment groups ‘ believe that when decisions are taken on the respective competence of the Community , Member States and regional and local government in actions to protect the environment , the overriding objective must be to secure the highest quality of life for the Community 's citizens . |
| 13 | A way to avoid this difficulty might be to put the political team on top of the bureaucratic hierarchy instead of in a separate box at the side of it . |
| 14 | A rather more promising approach might be to treat the existential quantifier itself as a kind of predicate — a second-level predicate to be precise — which , in our example above , says something about the " first-level " predicate " is human " , namely that the latter can be completed to produce a true proposition . |
| 15 | It is suggested that a useful starting point might be to classify the nine major points of difference which are outlined as distinguishing the two value positions . |
| 16 | The BBC Scotland task force suggested that the best way to pursue these guarantees might be to reverse the previous arrangement and keep the licence money in Scotland , paying out from it those fees imposed for taking network programmes and utilising corporate resources . |
| 17 | She uses an isolating varnish to ensure that the paint she applies can be removed without trouble at some later date — when , for example , the fashion might be to display the historical vicissitudes of the painting as well as its aesthetic freight . |
| 18 | A source close to the Law Commission suggests that , in the case of contracted-out services , one legal remedy might be to sue the relevant agency for breach of contract . |
| 19 | An alternative to mining might be to pump the superheated brine emerging from the ‘ smokers ’ directly to the surface . |
| 20 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 21 | A ‘ pact with the Soviet Union to defend democracy against fascism ’ sounded like a very different proposition from an ‘ alliance with Russia to sustain the British Empire against German imperialism ’ — however difficult it might be to distinguish the two things in practice . |
| 22 | The competencies needed to achieve that might be to understand the key issues of an industry and learn to see how Robson Rhodes ' products match that industry 's needs , to learn to become more persuasive , a better negotiator , and so on . |
| 23 | Another might be to accuse the modern art museum of having neutered and sanitised ‘ radical ’ art by the simple act of collecting and displaying it . |
| 24 | The effect of such ‘ nocturnal surges ’ in sex hormones , as the increased release of these hormones is called , might be to increase the sexual drive at night . |
| 25 | John Clamp , the chief executive of Combined Actuarial Performance Services , which monitors the performance of 1,800 pension funds valued at £185 billion , said the immediate impact could be to force the many employers using fund surpluses to take contributions holidays to start funding again . |
| 26 | What it meant to move towards school records could be to increase the subjective , teacher-controlled element in selection or to diminish the relative effects of differences between teachers or schools — it was never an unambiguous change . |
| 27 | A further use for videos could be to show the older farmers , who were not at present making use of training , alternative methods of performing tasks . |
| 28 | Another management system could be to calculate the modest savings achievable by practices or locally based groups of practices and to pay this sum to those who achieve the target . |
| 29 | Moreover , the effect of avian frugivores on insect frugivores may be to force the latter to eat unripe fruits or leave the host , lest they be eaten by omnivorous birds . |
| 30 | For example , one aim of a business plan may be to acquire the local authority housing department as a new client . |