Example sentences of "[modal v] be [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 2 | Clients may not be physically ill , but there should be provision for care in the appropriate environment if required . |
| 3 | There should be provision for practice of all skills , revision should be built in and the design of the text should be attractive and easy to read . |
| 4 | When morning came she was too ill with the poison to move and despite her weak protests he told her he would watch over her , for no eagle should be prey to gull or crow . |
| 5 | In relation to the question of the position of women , it would follow that , since — it is thought — the new testament does not allow the headship of a woman , and through the fact that women did not exercise headship in that society , that a woman should be head of state is as wrong as that a woman should exercise headship within the church . |
| 6 | The fault 's western side is moving inexorably northward at a rate of five cm a year and should be part of Alaska in about 50 million years . |
| 7 | With Western countries insisting that it should be part of NATO , the Soviet Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , on Feb. 14 declared that although his government would prefer a united Germany to be neutral and demilitarized , he was not sure how " realistic " this would be . |
| 8 | There was broad consensus that a united Germany should be part of NATO , albeit with some regard for Soviet security interests . |
| 9 | There should be freedom of choice |
| 10 | Mr Pannick said those who had drafted the relevant EC directive in 1989 had ‘ in their wisdom thought there should be freedom of reception throughout the EC and one should rely upon the state from which the signal emanates to exercise appropriate controls ’ . |
| 11 | Right your title should be Syrinx by Debussy . |
| 12 | There should be discussion between governors and the head about the best ways in which they can work together to complement each other 's efforts . |
| 13 | In 1899 the Secretary could report that at a special election in the village of Barnton , near Northwich , to decide on whether the new school should be Church of England or ‘ unsectarian ’ the Council put up ‘ Progressive ’ candidates who won the election . |
| 14 | In view of this , it should be perequisite for users to decide on the social/human and technical objectives before approaching the information centre . |
| 15 | Boullee was the architect of the sublime , and he said that there should be poetry in architecture , and that men should be moved emotionally by it as they would be by a poem . |
| 16 | For example , Fuller and Perdue , who argue that the generic principle of the law of private obligations should be compensation for harm to the reliance interest , pay scant attention to the issue of personal responsibility . |
| 17 | All entries should be address to Kit Kat Competition The editor 's decision is final . |
| 18 | There is an irony in the way this issue was raised by a housemaster reflecting upon his school and what the school should be doing for children : |
| 19 | Himmler is a nonentity who thinks he should be Fuhrer in Hitler 's place and Himmler 's deputy is Reinhard Heydrich who is brilliant and daring and handsome and will kill Himmler first and then the Fuhrer , if they do n't pre-empt him . |
| 20 | There should be room for relaxation , for sport , for social and cultural activities as well as academic work . |
| 21 | While games may be useful , and it may well be that there should be time in school devoted specifically to playing games , games are not of themselves drama . |
| 22 | At this hour the little clearing should be abustle with activity , huge mounds of logs being erected , smoke from the fires rising into the misty air . |
| 23 | The critic is an unusually acute and well-informed reader , but there should be equality of esteem between the critic and other readers . |
| 24 | there should be ease of access of staff to patients ; and |
| 25 | I do not think that there is anyone in the Chamber who would deny that the area of Cardiff docks needs redevelopment ; the question is whether there should be redevelopment by means of impounding the Rivers Taff and Ely . |
| 26 | A third important consideration , therefore , in facilitating learning in the ward is that there should be continuity between theory and practice . |
| 27 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 28 | There should be delegation of authority according to the results required , ie. a subordinate must be given sufficient authority to do all that is expected of him . |
| 29 | And it makes it easier for the slash-and-burn cultivators to get in rather than sort of coming in gradually round the edges , there are now great swathes cut through tropical rainforest at Amazonia certainly , and the Trans-Scabon railway is about to be put through which again will make it easier for the sort of to come in , and I think that should be bourn in mind . |
| 30 | The committee will also be considering whether there should be representation for groups not involved in ownership . |