Example sentences of "[modal v] be [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the section entitled ‘ Juvenile Employment ’ , Beveridge pressed the view that the exchange should be more than a place of registration and placement : it should be ‘ both a market-place and a centre of guidance and supervision in the choice of ‘ careers ’ . |
| 2 | Speechreading should be more than a communication aid ; it should enrich your quality of life , perhaps assisting you to become a more observant person , more aware , more alive , with the flexibility to adapt and adjust to new circumstances and with the courage and confidence to persist . |
| 3 | An accurate and meaningful account of a human society should be more than a generalised narrative of the changes in composition of the archaeological record through time . |
| 4 | However , the statement should be more than a transcript . |
| 5 | Should be more than a bit but I got Marg . |
| 6 | The condition that the mean lifetime wealth converges is that , which requires in effect that the intrinsic growth of capital ( ) should be less than the growth of population . |
| 7 | Thus , for example , the price of a rural railway line should be less than the private marginal cost if society judges it a good thing to protect the living standards of people in remote areas or to foster a sense of national cohesion . |
| 8 | British film practice , to fulfil its potential function , must be more than a business enterprise . |
| 9 | It must be more than a " mere suspicion . " |
| 10 | Putting patients first must be more than a slogan |
| 11 | It must be more than a coincidence that all this was happening simultaneously . |
| 12 | I consider that she would have found a job by early Autumn and therefore the sum must be more than a , nearly a year 's earnings and I assess it at eight thousand pounds . |
| 13 | The alternative , it should be stressed , must be more than an alternative governing group . |
| 14 | And , and they 've got erm , well they must be more than the Portacabins , but I mean they 've got erm places there though |
| 15 | the probability of flooding must be less than a specified level ; |
| 16 | He reasoned that the Lord who was physically born of Mary , grew in wisdom , suffered dereliction and death , must be less than the unbegotten , impassible , deathless Father . |
| 17 | For effective filtering , the ripple frequency must be very much lower than the frequency at which the series inductance becomes troublesome , and ideally the ESR must be less than the ratio of the specified ripple voltage to the ripple current . |
| 18 | ( The dynamical friction time varies inversely with the galaxy mass and must be less than the cosmological time . ) |
| 19 | Therefore , the condition for that balance of restraint from which we started out is that W < D , that is the value of winning the resource must be less than the cost of injury . |
| 20 | In this simple approach to open.loop control there are three basic control functions : ( a ) stepping rate : sets the motor speed , which must be less than the start/stop rate , ( h ) phase sequencing : ensures that the motor phases are excited in the order corresponding to the required direction of rotation , ( c ) step counting : records the number of steps taken by the motor and inhibits the step commands when the target position is attained . |
| 21 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 22 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 23 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 24 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 25 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 26 | Travelling and sitting with them might be more than a man can bear first thing in the new year . |
| 27 | ‘ When I started taking those wickets last summer , I began did begin to think I had a chance of representing my country but , to be truthful , I did n't think it could be more than the England A side . |
| 28 | These primordial black holes could be less than the size of the nucleus of an atom , yet their mass could be a billion tons , the mass of Mount Fuji . |
| 29 | Expressions such as " to insure adequately " and " to insure to the full value of the property " should be amended as the former covenant could be complied with if the cover equates to that recommended by the insurance company , and the latter could be interpreted as meaning the full market value of the property and , as such , could be less than the cost of reinstatement . |
| 30 | Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units . |