Example sentences of "[vb mod] be the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A woman can give something special too but there 's no reason why that should be the only thing that 's given . ’ |
| 10 | It may well be that arguments could be made that this sense of unreasonableness should be the only mechanism for controlling discretion . |
| 11 | Greenpeace says the standards applied in Germany , where fridges use up to 50 per cent less energy than elsewhere , should be the European norm . |
| 12 | should be the primary person responsible for how the department is working . |
| 13 | Upper gastrointestinal lesions that were able to be treated were often found at endoscopy and this should be the primary investigaton in such patients . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | First , he said , ‘ the community itself should be the primary focus , not the police . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When you are using a set of materials in the classroom , the important thing is that it should be the right length : |
| 18 | Therefore their period should be the axial rotation period of the Jovian interior . |
| 19 | This finding supports the view that chemotherapy should be the elective treatment in this group . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Innovation should be the correct interpretation of the archetype , the prototype . |
| 25 | By contrast , the Bible tells us it should be the other way round : the Bible text should be the starting place for our teaching . |
| 26 | Julie , who lives in Llanbedr , near Ruthin , North Wales , added : ‘ He comes into us asking if we 're asleep when it should be the other way round . |
| 27 | Erm I think , C P R E we feel we say this in our opening statement to our evidence that it should be the other way round . |
| 28 | Mebbe for the Oxford game that should be the other way round ( ‘ I can read and I can write but I ca n't drive a tractor ’ ) ? |
| 29 | I hope it will la apparently he was talking to Kathy , no , yeah , I always get , I always think Kathy and Jenny should be the other way round no |
| 30 | After his death at the hands of a Skaven assassin in 1152 the Elector Counts failed to reach a decision as to who should be the new Emperor . |