Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents who leave the kids with the babysitter and go out because they feel they should are among the biggest culprits . |
| 2 | As I have argued previously , this should be through a national market for research , which would be open to research hospitals all over Britain . |
| 3 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
| 4 | This suggests that to the criteria for trust wording a further one should be added : that the words be not only ‘ mediate ’ ( in the sense that they do not attribute property directly to the beneficiary ) but that they should also unequivocally attest the testator 's intention that a trustee should be under a legal obligation to a beneficiary . |
| 5 | In the five years since this judgment , Parliament has shown little interest , although the Labour Party has endorsed a proposal that those in the distribution business should be under a legal obligation to supply any publication requested by their customers — a reform which would require abolition of the rule that distributors can be held responsible for particular defamations of which they have no knowledge but which are nonetheless contained in libel-prone publications . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the situation between the government , the union and the Shipowners ' Federation had proceeded almost to the point of agreement in principle on a National Maritime Board and a proposal from Havelock Wilson that a single source of supply of seamen should be under the joint control of the Federation and the union , though formal acceptance and drafting problems remained ; so did the Liverpool revolt . |
| 7 | If you are a woman your goal weight should be nearer the lower figure ; for men , depending on build , it should be towards the higher end of the scale . |
| 8 | ‘ It should be between a hundred and twenty and a hundred and forty . |
| 9 | After this digression , it is now time to examine the way in which the curriculum , divided as it should be between the practical and the theoretical , is to be reflected in the school examination system . |
| 10 | The aims of higher education ( whether , for example , it should be about the disinterested pursuit of knowledge , or about training students for the graduate job market ) are confused . |
| 11 | Under many circumstances , the evolutionarily stable allocation to male and female reproductive functions should be about the same . |
| 12 | The set part of the sentence should be about the same length as the variable part which is used to finish it . |
| 13 | The natural litter of the foster mother should be about the same age as the animals to be fostered . |
| 14 | I would say that they ought to be able to spend at a level which is within the S S As that have been given both for the county and for the districts , and therefore we should be below the three hundred and seventy eight . |
| 15 | Erm we believe that er where in cases of erm misappropriated or fraud , the compensation fund should be for a hundred per cent of what has gone . |
| 16 | It was decided in the spring of 1892 to repair and rebuild the tower and as the Vicar in his letter puts it " To rebuild as an ornament to the village with a good clock in it , to make the fabric itself what it should be for a wealthy parish such as ours " . |
| 17 | As noted above , there is some indication of the development of a rebuttable presumption that all questions of law should be for the ordinary courts . |
| 18 | Yet , the very thesis that all questions of law should be for the ordinary courts itself fashions the result that the court believes to be correct . |
| 19 | would you accept that , that should be for the financial year ? |
| 20 | It should then be for the official aircraft accident investigating authority to establish the cause of the accident and to make recommendations for avoiding similar accidents in the future , and it should be for the civil courts to decide who is liable to pay damages and to whom . |
| 21 | Remember , if your policy is for ‘ Replacement as New ’ then your sum insured should be for the full replacement cost of all your possessions . |
| 22 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
| 23 | Labour 's concern should be with the initial distribution of wealth , rather than with a post hoc redistribution . |
| 24 | Connection to the electricity supply should be via a weatherproof cable connector to the extension lead . |
| 25 | The three ‘ exit routes ’ from the Special Hospitals , at least for those who do not die there , should be via the Regional Secure Units , local psychiatric hospitals or directly into hostels or flats , usually under some form of supervision . |
| 26 | So all that phrase means , in plain English , is that the goods should be of a reasonable standard and in particular it means that the goods should not be broken or damaged or faulty and whatever you 've bought should work . |
| 27 | Court proceedings should be of a civil rather than criminal nature , she said . |
| 28 | The trial judge agreed that the computer programs were protected by confidence but said that the protection should be of a limited nature . |
| 29 | It is pointed out that fluorescent lighting in clinical areas should be of a recommended type having colour rendering properties with which the decorative finishes in such areas must also be compatible . |
| 30 | This should be of a fine grain size to allow the female to do the small amount of digging necessary to convert her cave into an ideal home for herself and her fry . |