Example sentences of "[modal v] be [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first job should be to draw up the Institute 's environment charter . |
| 2 | Critics of the DAS claimed that his first task should be to root out the corruption within it and halt the systematic abuses of human rights by its police officers . |
| 3 | The next step could be to set down the factors which are important about where you live and then award them points on a sliding scale , ten for the very important , down to one . |
| 4 | The effect may be to limit greatly the opportunity for solicitors to act as advocates in more serious criminal cases . |
| 5 | Molly and Peggy introduced children 's classes from the earliest days of Medau — how fascinating it would be to turn back the clock and take a look at those Hampstead and Sidcup children ! |
| 6 | We noted earlier that the immediate effect of increased investment in investment trusts would be to push up the price of their shares without resulting in any extra flow of funds from savers to borrowers . |
| 7 | The main effect of an enzyme , altering b1 to b2 , would be to speed up the rate at which bonds were broken . |
| 8 | One tempting remedy would be to speed up the SFO 's act . |
| 9 | Far from ‘ force feeding ’ , the problem would be to assess selectively the enterprises deserving investment funds . |
| 10 | The function of a written constitution would be to set down the laws and conventions relating to the main institutions of the state , the relations among them , and between them and private citizens . |
| 11 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |
| 12 | One way of avoiding most of the problems associated with legislative guide-lines , while still ensuring a reasonable degree of control over the way sentencers exercise their discretion , would be to hand over the task of preparing the guide-lines to an independent sentencing commission or council , of the kind proposed by Ashworth ( 1993a : 447 , 1997 : 91 ) . |
| 13 | One policy would be to enter only the seven ‘ certainties ’ , thus achieving seven passes and a 100 per cent pass rate . |
| 14 | So one of your responses would be to bring in the privatization card and put a lot of this out to tender ? |
| 15 | A better move , would be to shore up the defence , Ken Monku might move considering Southampton position . |
| 16 | Erm category of checking , one of those b the idea would be to ring either the double nought or the nought . |
| 17 | Importantly , Sahlins does not privilege one perspective over the other : the British perspective is not treated as better or more informed because to treat it as such would be to accept unquestioningly the categories out of which this perspective constructed its realities . |
| 18 | ‘ The fascinating thing ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ would be to find out the real limit of this power of yours . |
| 19 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |
| 20 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 21 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 22 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |
| 23 | Finally , rather than stereotyping scientists as capitalist Frankensteins , making monsters for commercial gain , a more constructive approach would be to consider how the allocation of resources can be altered to meet the needs of the public majority rather than those of a minority in power . |
| 24 | ‘ Our only escape would be to climb down the face of the rock ; but … ’ her eyes rested on Adam ’ … your brother could not do it , mortal . |
| 25 | Mr Ciampi 's first priority will be to carry out the electoral reforms overwhelmingly endorsed by Italian voters by referendum in mid April . |
| 26 | An answer to these questions , if a satisfactory answer is to be possible at all , can not be given except as part of a theory of reality , and my purpose in the following pages will be to sketch out the fundamentals of just such a theory . |
| 27 | The effect of this will be to dilute further the value of the company 's existing shares . |
| 28 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 29 | The effect will be to drive up the exchange rate . |
| 30 | The next , more difficult step will be to clean up the mess . |