Example sentences of "[modal v] be [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first job should be to draw up the Institute 's environment charter . |
| 2 | The aim should be to carry out a prompt and thorough investigation . |
| 3 | The teacher may not instantly use all of this material , but the aim should be to build up a growing collection of useful resources which will remain the property of the school and which can be handed on to any teacher , or supply teacher who has to teach the course . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The first action in conducting a stability test must be to draw up an examination schedule . |
| 6 | Our aim must be to turn out a fully developed person to the limits of his or her personality . |
| 7 | Mr. Duggan will still be tutoring in French from Kingsley Centre and one of his plans could be to set up a shop for Christian books , publications and cards in the Alton area . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The main effect of an enzyme , altering b1 to b2 , would be to speed up the rate at which bonds were broken . |
| 12 | One tempting remedy would be to speed up the SFO 's act . |
| 13 | One way would be to hold up a pencil at arm 's length and measure their relative sizes as an artist might . |
| 14 | The magnitude of the NLD 's victory placed into question the validity of the SLORC 's stricture that the sole purpose of the election was to establish a Constituent Assembly without legislative power , whose task would be to draw up a new constitution before power could be handed over to a " strong " government , generally interpreted as meaning one acceptable to the military . |
| 15 | Forbidding though the prospect may be , he needs another talking shop — a commission whose function would be to draw up a definitive Russian constitution that could then be entrenched against the amending whims of the Congress . |
| 16 | That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country . |
| 17 | In some quarters it was suggested that the best solution would be to set up a government of ‘ national trustees ’ , headed by McKenna , who had deserted politics for banking and had not sat in ; Parliament since 1918 . |
| 18 | Another possible course of action would be to set up an ‘ Old Students ’ or ‘ Alumni ’ Association with a wider membership than convocation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The idea would be to compile over a short period a national register of wealth holdings . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’ |
| 24 | So one of your responses would be to bring in the privatization card and put a lot of this out to tender ? |
| 25 | A better move , would be to shore up the defence , Ken Monku might move considering Southampton position . |
| 26 | ‘ The fascinating thing ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ would be to find out the real limit of this power of yours . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |