Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 By the time you get all the crew up on the windward rail , which would be in true wind of 10 – 12 knots , you should be flattening the bottom of the main and opening up the leech .
2 It should be noted the charge is under Case VI of Schedule D ( s677(6) ) .
3 Henry and he made a treaty of alliance , agreeing that Richard should be betrothed to one of the Count 's daughters and that , when married , they should be granted the duchy of Aquitaine .
4 In November 1990 the Federal Court ruled that women in the half-canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden , the last bastion of male-only suffrage in Europe , should be granted the vote at cantonal and communal level [ see p. 37867 ] .
5 Perhaps one of our tasks should be to examine the extent to which we are complicit in reproducing structural inequalities through the very nature of the work we do .
6 The strategy should be to enable the group , and its individual members , to discover their own strengths and weaknesses .
7 While supporting the practitioners ' role as proxy for the patient in purchasing , there is a need to recognise the limitations of this , and wherever possible we should be seeking the opinion of the public .
8 Clinical trials will begin within a year and patients with lung , stomach and pancreas cancer should be receiving the treatment by 1995 .
9 For many years its significance was thought to lie in the fact that , while the combiners had to intend to do an unlawful act , it was not necessary that their purpose should be to injure the plaintiff .
10 I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities .
11 You would n't want , for example , the heads of our elderly people 's homes to be sat in their offices pushing paper when they should be managing the home .
12 ‘ It should be filling the skyline .
13 ‘ Guides should be setting the example and I think we should think about the way we put adventure first . ’
14 He says they should be made the responsibility of the Home Office instead .
15 It would be obviously undesirable that such matters should be made the subject of evidence in a Court of law or otherwise discussed in public . ’
16 He felt he should be watching the road from behind the curtains , waiting for the badmen to arrive at High Noon , while in the background a voice intoned ‘ Do not forsake me , o my darling ’ .
17 Drama time The children start by working in small groups , continuing to improvise their daily routine , but with the added task that while they are working they should be discussing the issue of the railway route .
18 Secondly , His Holiness the Dalai Lama should be given the ownership of Tibet . ’
19 Mentally handicapped children should be given the opportunity of mixing with other children from an early age .
20 The children should be given the opportunity to mix with handicapped people , and encouraged to participate in voluntary activities , helping in homes and at social clubs for the handicapped .
21 15.29 Pupils should be given the opportunity to develop the ability to :
22 He believes that older people should be given the opportunity to participate in civic activities during retirement and argues for :
23 He now asked Manners why the first and second prize-winners in the competition had been passed over and Scott appointed , and requested that MPs should be given the opportunity to see all three designs displayed together before any further steps
24 These are some of the reasons why we recommend that all children should be given the opportunity to gain pleasure and critical awareness from the study of pre-twentieth-century English literature .
25 Pupils should be given the opportunity to write in a wide range of forms : diaries , formal letters , chronological accounts , reports , pamphlets , reviews ( of books , television programmes , films or plays ) , essays , newspaper articles , biography , autobiography , poems , stories , play-scripts , TV or film-scripts .
26 The National Cricket Association received £350,000 to provide non-turf pitches ‘ in areas where schoolchildren should be given the opportunity to learn the game on good surfaces ’ , while among grants to some 50 other cricket organisations were sums of £90,000 for Irthlingborough CC , £26,000 for Shanklin CC and £20,000 for Halstead CC .
27 She should be given the opportunity to provide her own solution .
28 There may be no alternative to leave-of-absence or annual leave but the nurse should be given the opportunity to resolve her difficulty by seeking the help of colleagues who may be prepared to substitute for her at short notice .
29 Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) .
30 Taking both these factors into account , I conclude that a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence should be given the opportunity to make representations in writing to the Secretary of State about the length of his tariff period before it is set .
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