Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , 55% of survey respondents stated that the main purpose of their board should be to improve communication between parents and the school . |
| 2 | The ‘ rehabilitation ’ or ‘ long-term support ’ team , as well as caring for a group of people with long-term problems , should also be responsible for maintaining a register of all people who should be receiving help in order to assist with monitoring their progress , ensuring that they receive the right care and treatment and that they do not get lost to the service . |
| 3 | FoE pollution campaigner Karen McVeigh says that such allowances should be made conditional on the bus operators including a requirement for low-sulphur diesel in their fuel specifications . |
| 4 | The Wilson Committee found the case unproven but the Labour Party and the trade union movement have since suggested that tax concessions available to pension funds should be made conditional upon the repatriation of some of their overseas investment . |
| 5 | But Senator Norris says it is ‘ a wonderful irony and absurd that an act of censorship should be made public in the library ’ . |
| 6 | Opinions about whether the reports should be made public in future were almost evenly divided , with a tiny majority ( 52 per cent ) against . |
| 7 | But it is not , in my opinion , appropriate that the remedy of judicial review , which is a discretionary remedy , should be made use of to monitor the actions of local authorities under the Act save in the exceptional case … |
| 8 | When the Haldanes challenged the Campbell influence in Stirling , they promised Deacon Ellise of the hammermen that he should be made smith of the Castle and that a member of the tailor 's trade should replace the castle storeman . |
| 9 | The first difficulties began to appear last year after the Mazowiecki government , without consulting the public or the parliament , decreed that children should be taught religion in schools , in effect making Catholicism close to a state religion . |
| 10 | The role of the auditor should be to support management by assisting in pointing out deficiencies and advising on possible courses of action . |
| 11 | He insisted on the principle of the –subordination of characters ' — some characters were more fundamental than others and should be given pride of place in assessing degrees of relationship . |
| 12 | Students should be given experience of steering the glider off to one side so that they learn how to use the controls independently instead of co-ordinating them . |
| 13 | But the Prime Minister has obviously decided that having ridden the rough waters of the recession , the Chancellor should be given credit for the recovery . |
| 14 | In view of this heightened activity it is hardly surprising that medicine should be given credit for the decline in mortality ( e.g. Griffith 1926 ) . |
| 15 | It made a number of recommendations for a more disciplined and concerted pre-trial regime , suggesting that a defendant should be given credit for a guilty plea , particularly where there is saving of public expenditure and time , and that there should be a more vigorous policy on credit for pleas of guilty either by way of reduction of length of custodial sentence or the passing of some alternative to custody . |
| 16 | The concept is that applicants should be given credit for prior learning whether it is certificated or uncertificated providing it is at the right level and relevant to the qualification being sought . |
| 17 | It is important , especially in my area , to accept that Mersey has achieved dramatic reductions in health service waiting lists , for which Sir Donald Wilson should be given credit in Mersey and Mr. Peter Hayes for the part that he has played in Macclesfield . |
| 18 | More specifically , Hocevar requested that Yugoslavs should be given joint-responsibility for all camps which included surrendered Yugoslav nationals . |
| 19 | In September , members of Gwynedd County Council 's planning sub-committee recommended the company should be given permission for 15 Sundays in a year , with a time limit of two years . |
| 20 | ( i ) Preferential creditors As a matter of policy , insolvency law has to determine ( a ) what constitutes insolvency proceedings and ( b ) whether any particular class of creditors should be given protection in the insolvency of a company and accorded a statutory preference over some or all of the company 's creditors . |
| 21 | Redeployment Redeployed staff should be given consideration for vacancies occurring within any area of the Group . |
| 22 | In framing the loan agreement both the government and the Bank had formally agreed that high-powered international management of the meat plants and ranches was necessary to success , that pastoral cattle keepers should be given title to their land ( an innovation ) , and that the meat price should be raised , thus restraining urban demand . |
| 23 | Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors . |
| 24 | A specific senior nurse should be given responsibility for updating the establishment profile as a result of planned developments in service which affect staffing requirements anywhere within the Health Authority . |
| 25 | Specifically , governors should be given responsibility for defining the broad aims of the school ; they in turn should invite the head and staff to devise means of pursuing them , and should themselves monitor the school 's progress towards them . |
| 26 | We recommend that teachers should be given training in the assessment of speaking and listening and in moderation methods . |
| 27 | All staff who have contact with the public should be given training in customer relations . |
| 28 | Equally foolish in my view , to return to the central subject of this book , is the insistence by Brian Way that children should be given practice in concentration , for second-order activities are nothing if not absorbing . |
| 29 | On the question of unresolved property claims ( numbering 1,200,000 , of which 10,000 were for businesses ) the Cabinet agreed on March 12 that until the end of 1992 investors who created or sustained jobs should be given priority over previous owners [ for agreement on property rights and ownership regulations in unification treaty see pp. 37536 ; 37661 ] . |
| 30 | In institutions where this is not the case at present it should be given priority in plans for staff development and forward planning . |