Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These remarks it should be noted were directed specifically at the Republican Congressional leadership by the man with the primary responsibility for persuading congress to accept the president 's domestic programme . |
| 2 | This argument seems to have had some effect , for while the Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked to look more closely at the dollar costs of overseas forces , the Defence Ministry 's view that no further cuts in forces should be sought was accepted . |
| 3 | Of course , the inevitable questions of what that foundation should consist of and when it should be built are answered by the claim that the period of initial training is too short and therefore such knowledge must be provided earlier by the academic course or later by in-service courses . |
| 4 | Even if the argument concerning whether semantic knowledge should be incorporated is upheld , there still remains the question of how it should be incorporated . |
| 5 | In the light of Government protestations that safety is of the highest order , the idea that that service should be privatised is brought into focus . |
| 6 | If the existence of companies should be regarded as premised on ‘ the understanding that their activities are to fulfill our purposes ’ , some idea of how ‘ our purposes ’ should be understood is needed . |
| 7 | Not only do horoscopes determine the suitability of a partner for an arranged marriage , even the date that the couple should be joined is left to the astrologer 's discretion . |
| 8 | the proposition that as 40% of marriages ended in divorce the multiplier should be reduced was rejected . |
| 9 | The suggestion of the 1977 Review that a comprehensive system of periodic review , analysis and assessment of regional policy should be instigated was upheld , leading to the First Periodic Report . |
| 10 | Referred to as possible ‘ pitfalls ’ in the excellent manual , some of the more likely situations where erroneous deductions should be anticipated are presented . |
| 11 | ‘ The question of whether all listed companies should be included was discussed by the committee but — and it 's a hard line , perhaps — if the directors ca n't fulfil the responsibilities of stewardship expected of them , then perhaps they should n't be listed companies . ’ |
| 12 | The conditions which must be fulfilled are known as felicity conditions . |
| 13 | The extent to which treatment on the ventilator must be continued is determined , I submit , by reference to the extent to which recovery or improvement is possible . |
| 14 | This cultural context which affected attitudes towards the city and how it might be planned was built up from a number of sources and expressed in the literature of the day ( Timms and Kelley. 1985 ) . |
| 15 | However hard he strove , his destiny was fixed at birth by his parents ' position , and such limited social mobility as might be achieved was rationalized ( and thus concealed ) in the language of kinship . |
| 16 | One of the earliest detailed discussions of how the artefacts of the period might be dated was provided by Åberg ( 1926 , pp. 149–58 ) , although typically there is no consideration of what such chronology could be used for beyond using it to relate the archaeological data to an historical narrative : |
| 17 | Indications of how this latter task might be done are offered but not developed in this article . |
| 18 | The way in which these needs might be managed is considered in two contrasting theoretical models — content theories and process theories . |
| 19 | Everything that could be polished was polished , but nothing was new , all the furniture and equipment settled into their accustomed places as of long habit . |
| 20 | What elevated Griffith above his fellow technicians was that his sense of what a camera should record and his appreciation that new dimensions of filmic space could be appropriated were given meaning by their constant reference to central themes of American life . |
| 21 | The grounds on which this remedy could be sought were summarized by Lord Diplock in the GCHQ case under the three headings of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety . |
| 22 | At Ainaro , as many men as could be collected were put under Gerry Mackenzie 's command — there was nothing ‘ base ’ about these wallahs . |
| 23 | The emotional setting in which sermons could be preached was made possible by a sympathetic audience : indeed , reciprocity was essential . |
| 24 | Of 223 defaulters at the Pickering Forest eyre of 1334 , only nineteen finally surrendered themselves at the York county court in August 1338 ; the remainder , who had no lands or chattels by which they could be distrained were outlawed . |
| 25 | Until March 1990 the authorities were allowed to spend only 20 per cent a year of the receipts from the sale of council houses , and the purposes to which the money could be put were circumscribed . |
| 26 | The presence of a continuously irregular frequency such that no dominant frequency could be shown was found in the three patients with a proven myopathy and in two patients with a manometric pattern suggestive of muscle disease . |
| 27 | Finally , the emergence of pools where the fully-fledged candidates could be identified was raised . |
| 28 | A list of the social and economic problems which could be identified was drawn up by the Executive Committee and approved by the full Association . |
| 29 | Each end of Glencoe was sealed off and every adult male who could be found was killed . |
| 30 | All the information that could be needed is provided , including overall positions and the positions in the different categories , of which there are five . |