Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He blamed France for the delay , which he said was caused by Paris 's continuing insistence that Strasbourg should be confirmed as the permanent site of the EC Parliament 's plenary sessions . |
| 2 | Which category should be selected as the base for comparison ? |
| 3 | 1812 " It is proposed that the Clergymen of the Island shall … convene the poor of their respective Parishes , & to such as they find needy , to issue a Ticket of his or her name & Parish Written thereon , who only should be served as the Poor , & impostures excluded — It is Represented to this Meeting that a number of Beggars keep dogs at home and abroad — and as Scarcity is apprehended , it is considered proper that every person should this year Discharge every unnecessary Dog … " |
| 4 | If in both cases passive surrender to an omnipotent phantasied father-figure is the centre of the conflict , then it is intelligible that this should be projected as the infantile equivalent of castrating , homosexual , anal rape . |
| 5 | Parental responsibility should be treated as the greatest and most important undertaking of human life , albeit the one potentially holding out the promise of the greatest happiness . |
| 6 | P appealed to the High Court , contending that no part of his interest ‘ came to an end ’ within para 4(2) ; he had merely disposed of shares in Q. Similarly , para 4(2) was not deemed to operate by virtue of para 4(1) , which provided that a disposal of an interest in possession of any property was not a transfer of value , but should be treated as the coming to the end of an interest in possession , bringing into play para 4(2) . |
| 7 | He also says that ‘ the decoding of sentence meaning should be treated as the end point of development ’ as though the universal superiority of the essayist technique had been firmly established . |
| 8 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
| 9 | In so far as insolvency law is committed to the principle that property within the apparent ownership of the company should be treated as the company 's in the event of its insolvent liquidation , permitting party autonomy to effect automatic crystallisation undermines this policy . |
| 10 | The Crown argued ( unsuccessfully ) that the transactions constituted a settlement within what is now TA 1988 , s663 and that the income of the property transferred to the company should be treated as the income of the transferor ( the case also involved legislation repealed by FA 1972 ) . |
| 11 | A paper suggested that , in keeping with the selection of the management team , Mickey Mouse should be adopted as the official mascot . |
| 12 | This being so , it is all the more important to end by underlining what I take to be gained by the acceptance of my proposal that concessive holism should be adopted as the most fruitful approach to social explanation . |
| 13 | Frederick II himself had argued a few years earlier that ‘ useful hard-working people should be guarded as the apple of one 's eye , and in wartime recruits should be levied in one 's own country only when the bitterest necessity compels ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ The software package selected for implementation should be seen as the vehicle for a solution rather than the solution itself . |
| 15 | The advantages of such a close integration into the existing administration seems to have been obvious , as no doubt were those of a prominent site for a building which should be seen as the expression of a desire to give India a better government . |
| 16 | Retirement should be seen as the start of a new phase of life , not just the end of an old one . |
| 17 | During the later years of Henry 's reign , a number of radical Protestants , such as John Bale , took such comments to their logical conclusion by arguing in a series of historical and theological works that the pope and the Roman church should be seen as the Antichrist — the powerful antithesis of Christ and the fount of all evil whose downfall was a necessary forerunner of the second coming of Christ . |
| 18 | Parents ' main interest was seen as the opportunity to influence the quality of their children 's education … the view was expressed that the APM should be seen as the climax to a continuous relationship between various parties and an opportunity for them to come together and ask questions about what had happened over the course of the previous 12 months . |
| 19 | We should ask if it is product ( end ) or problem ( origin ) that should be seen as the generic base of what design is ' — not as a challenge to construct a dialectical , interactionist model of design activity , which takes each of these moments seriously as a necessary moment or characteristic of " what design is " , but as an affront to rationalism . |
| 20 | When the County Planning Committee considered the western relief road on the third of March nineteen ninety two , they resolved that a western relief road for Harrogate was environmentally unacceptable , that the Harrogate and Knaresborough southern bypass used in conjunction with the proposed A one motorway should be seen as the preferred route for north bound traffic originating to the south of Harrogate , and that the ultimate selection and implementation of a relief road for Harrogate and Knaresborough should be part of a package of measures for solving the problem of urban congestion and improving the quality of the urban environment . |
| 21 | This contract should be reconsidered as the elderly person 's progress or ‘ career ’ in the home is reviewed on a regular quarterly or half yearly basis , with the same social worker still responsible , and the family present or represented , along with the old person . |
| 22 | Perhaps , he writes , democracy should be reconsidered as the universal option for all nations . |
| 23 | ‘ Whether the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or the Stanze of Raphael should be regarded as the culminating effort of modern art , has long been the subject of controversy ’ ; but they both received double asterisks . |
| 24 | The degree of risk created by the bad driving should be regarded as the crucial factor ; it is not so much a question of whether the sentence should be more severe when the risk eventuates , as whether the sentence should be more lenient when the risk does not materialize . |
| 25 | Except in regions of very low rainfall April should be regarded as the safest month for sowing herbage seeds . |
| 26 | Here , then , we have the most obvious , the most important , opportunity for bridge-building , so obvious and important in fact that , in my view — and here I echo a judgment of Stephen Clark 's which in times past I fiercely denied — an individual 's or organisation 's position on ‘ meat-eating ’ , so-called , should be regarded as the decisive litmus test of their moral credibility . |
| 27 | Wilson ( 1988 ) proposed that community groups should be regarded as the interface between structure and agency and that caution should be exercised in ascribing voluntaristic impetuses to them . |
| 28 | The NZRFU must also accept the fact that these days touring teams such as Ireland will not fill major grounds , and that 30,000 — which was the top crowd for the entire tour — should be regarded as the benchmark . |
| 29 | The Nagas should be regarded as the initiates and the guardians of the ancient esoteric knowledge . |
| 30 | ‘ The health risks to nonsmokers [ of passive smoking ] provide added argument for the reduction of smoking in the community , and nonsmoking should be regarded as the norm in enclosed areas frequented by the public or employees , special provision being made for smokers , rather than vice versa. ’ [ 4 ] . |