Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 1,792 people over the age of 15 questioned by Public Attitude Survey , 7 per cent believed the law should be the exclusive preserve of Christianity . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the monetarist recommends that control of the money supply should be the major concern of the monetary authorities and that such a policy is of paramount importance for the conduct of macroeconomic policy . |
| 3 | The improvement of our management of information should be the major thrust of our information services strategy for the next five years . |
| 4 | The intention is that it should be the major Group priority for two years from September 1991 . |
| 5 | For those whom we represent — for their employment , standards of living and the standards of their families — those should be the major guides to our thinking on Europe . |
| 6 | Since none of these activities is costless , however , the situation is not quite as clear as suggested by economists who propose that efficiency should be the only goal . |
| 7 | The Pacific Bell Inc arm of Pacific Telesis Group Inc does not believe that the folks across the Pacific should be the only ones to have universally available full broadband ISDN by the year 2015 , and it says it is discussing forming alliances with cable companies to help in the building of a super data highway in California over the next decade . |
| 8 | Several said firmly that suitability and fitness should be the only criteria , and that is fine , as far as it goes . |
| 9 | It is a peculiarly appropriate irony that this should be the only poem in this group with the Our/ We form , establishing on the grammatical plane a congruence with the semantic one : seen from the outside , held up for inspection , they are united — at the level of mutual deception . |
| 10 | The Software Magazine should be the only publication able to focus a spotlight on support , an area where users really perceive value in an application . |
| 11 | Tebbit clarified the position and laid down guidelines that the effect on competition should be the only criterion for deciding whether to block a proposed merger , although in practice this guideline was not always fully adhered to . |
| 12 | A woman can give something special too but there 's no reason why that should be the only thing that 's given . ’ |
| 13 | It may well be that arguments could be made that this sense of unreasonableness should be the only mechanism for controlling discretion . |
| 14 | Immediately after issue the amount attributable to an instrument within non-equity shareholders ' funds should be the net proceeds of the issue . |
| 15 | Greenpeace says the standards applied in Germany , where fridges use up to 50 per cent less energy than elsewhere , should be the European norm . |
| 16 | should be the primary person responsible for how the department is working . |
| 17 | Upper gastrointestinal lesions that were able to be treated were often found at endoscopy and this should be the primary investigaton in such patients . |
| 18 | In any case , in addictive disease the ideal of a drug-free life should be the primary aim of true help for the primary sufferer and the legality or illegality of any particular drug is irrelevant to that primary aim . |
| 19 | First , he said , ‘ the community itself should be the primary focus , not the police . ’ |
| 20 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) said , the spokesmen got themselves into an even bigger twist over the question whether cost should be the primary basis on which to judge a contract , or whether then to introduce another element so as to ensure that white collar services can be won by the private sector . |
| 21 | It always seems to me that you 've got a set of results , and if you come to write them up , and you know they 're obviously wrong , you 're going to get a lot more marks if you put down the right values — or what should be the right values — so you end up fiddling things eventually . |
| 22 | When you are using a set of materials in the classroom , the important thing is that it should be the right length : |
| 23 | Surely somewhere in the world there should be the right facies preserved to provide the connecting links between the Palaeozoic faunas of the Late Permian and the Mesozoic faunas of the Mid and Late Trias ? |
| 24 | Therefore their period should be the axial rotation period of the Jovian interior . |
| 25 | This finding supports the view that chemotherapy should be the elective treatment in this group . |
| 26 | The controversy that followed the publication of the Maastricht Treaty highlighted significant differences between and within member states over the extent to which the process of integration should proceed , and over whether the proposed union rather than individual member states should be the principal location for decision-making in the future . |
| 27 | At the next Scottish Liberal Party Council meeting I put forward a motion that Home Rule should be the principal aim and object of our policy and that in Scottish domestic matters all other issues should be considered in relation to it . |
| 28 | It is ironic that the very thing which made Cadbury such a dominant force in the UK — creating and building a unique product — should be the principal impediment to the company 's growth in that market elsewhere . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , to line up the specialist with the practical , the theoretical with the generalist may throw light on what should be the future structure of the school curriculum . |
| 30 | Innovation should be the correct interpretation of the archetype , the prototype . |