Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should be taught the names and order of the letters of the alphabet . |
| 2 | ‘ But Laura was unhappy that if the company could afford to sell to decorators at a reduced rate , then the public should be allowed the products at that price too . |
| 3 | It was resolved that the attendance of the physician and the surgeons should be given free of all expense to the institution , and that each should be allowed the privileges of a governor by virtue of their appointments . |
| 4 | you should be told the details of the complaint against you ; |
| 5 | So in other words they should be paid the salaries they would have been got getting in whatever their other line of work would have been , rather than special rates of the job of an M P . |
| 6 | It should be remembered the situations in which speech is used . |
| 7 | ‘ You must be given the sorcerers ’ protection , ’ he said . |
| 8 | But if we are to reduce the number of new infections and protect our young people , they must be given the facts about AIDS/HIV and given the opportunity to discuss the issues openly . |
| 9 | I think it convenient in this judgment first to set out the salient facts of the case , as found by the judge , and then to consider the authorities from which must be extracted the principles of law and equity to be applied to the facts . |
| 10 | They claim the Queen refused to intervene , and as a consequence , she must be denied the keys to the cities of Nicosia and Limassol . |
| 11 | Against that must be weighed the costs of absorbing new members into a Community already weighed down by the process of bargaining over policy among 12 member states . |
| 12 | Against these objections must be set the advantages of the rating system : payment is difficult to avoid , income is predictable , and collection is cheap and easy . |
| 13 | Against these must be set the costs of non-conformity such as unanticipated design changes , unnecessary maintenance and customer dissatisfaction . |
| 14 | Paul , at seventeen , had begun to take his share in the running of the island under Otkel , and his father the Earl must be shown the results and discuss them ; with Erlend , a silent eleven , listening avidly . |
| 15 | Similarly , a child might be taught the names of objects or colours when a generalised reinforcement — for example , ‘ That 's right ! ’ — consistently follows an utterance which names an object or the colour of an object . |
| 16 | With this and a later inheritance he was able to indulge his passion for science by organising what might be considered the forerunners of today 's scientific conferences . |
| 17 | What Eileen had done , of course , when she reached the stage in her life when she might naturally have been considering starting a family , was subconsciously to ‘ invent ’ her illness in order that she might be spared the horrors of it all . |
| 18 | Fearing that the seat might be stolen the councillors arranged for it to be taken away for safe-keeping . |
| 19 | Fearing that the seat might be stolen the councillors arranged for it to be taken away for safe-keeping . |
| 20 | Because , and you 'll be given the instructions for those in your small group sessions today . |
| 21 | St Mary 's Priory You 'll be given the details later . ’ |
| 22 | You 'll be spared the flowers and the incense-burning and general carry-on . |
| 23 | Directly above this the courtyard roof had a large pentagonal opening through which could be seen the stars , hanging above them in the heavens . |
| 24 | It was a curious evening , a backward look to pieces in which could be seen the seeds of the choreographic gift that was to develop , sometimes into epic stagings , in the years ahead . |
| 25 | Returning to the car , or as it could be called the reps ' mobile office , there followed an impressive schedule of administration . |
| 26 | These distinctions , highlighted in Fig. 1 , may be called the dualisms of normativism and occupy a central place in normativist thought . |
| 27 | The two sides may be called the Goths and the Greeks , and while the Goths won the war , the Greeks took quite a few battle honours . |
| 28 | Senior staff may be offered the services of an independent relocation company . |
| 29 | These schools may be spared the risks of improper use , but schools can not tailor programmes of study to children throughout the range of ability if ability can not be assessed . |
| 30 | To this may be added the characters of the dentition related to diet , such as broad spatulate central incisors , low crowned premolars with loss of honing on P3 , and relatively broad molars with low rounded cusps . |