Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The injury niggles involving Tony Cascarino , Andy Townsend , Packie Bonner and Terry Phelan should be cleared up by 2.45 on Wednesday afternoon when a capacity Lansdowne Road will urge the Republic towards another giant step to Group Three qualification . |
| 2 | It is virtually impossible to grate then , so they should be broken up by stroking with a fork if required for cooking . |
| 3 | It is intolerable that Labour MPs who are also accountable to all the voters in their town should be turfed out by the block vote . |
| 4 | This is why organisations like Oxfam argue that virtually all non-concessional debt should be written off by creditors , not just a smaller share of debt taken on before a certain date . |
| 5 | Here the sealing ‘ olive ’ is made from rubber or plastic ; the ‘ nut ’ should be tightened up by hand , not with any kind of spanner . |
| 6 | Anyone partaking in the dungaree revival outside the privacy of their own bedroom should be strung up by the braces and hooked on a lamp-post for the crows to peck at |
| 7 | When Mammon leads the blind into decisions that are governed by ignorance , vanity , nepotism and even political discretion , no artist submitting work for any prize should be cast down by failure ; no artist with any self respect should be elated by success . |
| 8 | Ideally this should be carried out by the timber supplier ( treated wood is described as ‘ Tanalised ’ or ‘ Celcured ’ by timber merchants and other stockists ) to ensure thorough and deep penetration of the wood . |
| 9 | In this letter Thomas suggested that the foundations and building work should be carried out by the Canal Company and estimated that the cost would be £12,000 . |
| 10 | The process of expanding or decomposing the model should be carried out by developing a root definition for each sub-system , taking into account that these are subject in turn to ‘ monitoring and control ’ at the new level of definition . |
| 11 | ‘ The audit function should be carried out by the Court of Auditors in a similar way to that adopted by the principal auditor of a multinational group of companies which has a number of foreign subsidiary companies . |
| 12 | After an aircraft type has been established in service for some years , a searching ‘ mid-life ’ review should be carried out by the manufacturer to the satisfaction of the certification authority when all aspects of the aircraft 's structural performance should be studied in the light of fleet service experience and current design knowledge . |
| 13 | Teaching , he felt , should be carried out by draughtsmen and painters , who actually exhibit , rather than by mere teachers training other teachers . |
| 14 | Teachers , on the other hand , objected ; teaching work should be carried out by people with teaching qualifications ( although here they were indeed on shaky ground as the majority of technical college lecturers at that time did not themselves possess qualifications in education ) . |
| 15 | The report went on to recommend that ‘ to the greatest extent practicable ’ the executive functions of government , as distinct from policy advice , should be carried out by ‘ units clearly designated within departments ’ — agencies . |
| 16 | Home helps are carrying out tasks which they say should be carried out by qualified nurses and are being forced to neglect domestic duties such as cleaning and shopping , according to a survey by public sector unions . |
| 17 | Power sharing was understandably crucial for SDLP and it proposed that government should be carried out by an Executive with cabinet posts in proportion to party strengths in the Assembly . |
| 18 | The clearance procedure involves a review of the circumstances to confirm our competence to act which should be carried out by two independent MAS partners plus a senior partner the names of whom are available from CFSU . |
| 19 | He sees it as a weakness of international law that no such machinery exists , and argues that an internationally authorised force should be set up by the UN Security Council to intervene in rogue states on various continents . |
| 20 | Roman law never did have a doctrine that trusts should be set up by imperative words . |
| 21 | So ‘ Hammer ’ , a tempestuous saga of death by lustful adventure should be picked up by a Channel 4 researcher and used on an equally graphic AIDS documentary . |
| 22 | Nor does Pearce believe up-and-coming managers should be put off by the apparent decline in moral standards of business . |
| 23 | I bet there 's loads of them like it in there , these should be tapped in by both leads |
| 24 | Will he also condemn the scandalous proposal that when the PSA is privatised , up to £85 million of taxpayers ' money should be handed over by the Government to Tarmac , which will take it over , so that any proposed redundancies of men and women in the PSA will be paid not by the privatising company but by the taxpayer ? |
| 25 | Keys may be obtained after 2.00pm on Saturday of arrival & keys should be handed in by 10.00am on the Saturday of departure . |
| 26 | This , the Committee believed , should be brought about by the establishment of education advisory services with one adviser per 20,000 population and with a minimum staff of fifteen to ensure adequate curriculum cover . |
| 27 | For instance , there is the strict requirement of English that postnominal adjectives should be marked off by a pause in speech and by commas in writing , if and only if they are non-restrictive ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 28 | The Spanish laws against drug use in those days were exceptionally severe , and I was terrified in case you should be found out by the police or the drug squad . |
| 29 | The laws should be backed up by an effective inspectorate , it states . |
| 30 | Unlike Eisenhower ( who had argued in 1959 , that if the Soviets really intended to make trouble they could be deterred only with the threat of nuclear war ) , Kennedy believed that Western diplomacy should be backed up by increased conventional forces on the continent . |