Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The promise that the poorest will be protected by adjustments to their income support levels just does n't begin to address the problems of the seven million British households who are already suffering from fuel poverty and unable adequately to heat their homes . |
| 2 | I would be treading a tightrope — or at the least could be accused of insensitivity — were I to speak more of this particular sister-in-law . |
| 3 | After talks with Gorbachev in Moscow on May 3 , Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan announced that he had received assurances that the wounded would be evacuated and that the Soviet authorities would intervene to stop Armenians being deported from communities in border areas of Azerbaijan . |
| 4 | Just as the innocent should not be punished , so the guilty should be made to pay . |
| 5 | The following resolution passed by the Bournemouth Congress in 1971 also illustrates this new mood : This Congress demands according to the rights of citizenship in a democratic society : a ) That whenever legislation is proposed concerning the deaf , the deaf themselves as represented by the British Deaf Association should have full consultation and adequate participation at all levels ; b ) That in the implementation of all such legislation the deaf should be given every opportunity for active participation ; c ) That there should be adequate representation by deaf persons on governing bodies of all Associations and schools concerned with the welfare , employment and education of the deaf . |
| 6 | HOW THE DEAF WILL BE WARNED OF AIR RAIDS … |
| 7 | The religious man shall be counted insane ; the irreligious shall be thought wise ; the furious , brave ; and the worst of men shall be considered good . |
| 8 | Where the company can exercise the right of set-off against a preferential creditor who is also owed a non-preferential debt by the company , the set-off must be exercised against the debts rateably in proportion to the amounts of the preferential and non-preferential claims of the creditor . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal gave a declaration that the set-off could be made ( see MS Fashions Ltd and Others v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA , The Times , 23 June 1992 ) . |
| 10 | Whether or not the 19705 may be considered relatively uninhibited in its sexual atmosphere , there is no doubt that the earlier years of the twentieth century were a good deal more inhibited . |
| 11 | At first we outlined as our objective the elimination of the main characteristics of conventional tonal music by the following means : ( 1 ) we should avoid the use of conventional scale patterns ; ( 2 ) we should eliminate triadic chord formations , including not only major and minor chords , but also 7th , 9th , and diminished 7th chords ; ( 3 ) chord sequences resembling conventional cadences should also be avoided ; and ( 4 ) the total-chromatic should be used continuously . |
| 12 | Indeed , his insistence that punishments should only reflect the harm done to society and have nothing to do with subjective intent would seem to imply that the accident-prone should be treated the same as those who cause harm by design ! |
| 13 | Okun ( 1975 ) notes that high taxation of the rich may be interpreted as an adverse ethical judgement on economic success , altering attitudes ( preferences ) to it and its attractiveness as a goal . |
| 14 | They 're making it so only the rich can be educated . |
| 15 | The under-sixteens would be marshalled back in crocodile fashion by an older Girl of about twenty-six . |
| 16 | The only means at the disposal of the unemployed would be to offer their labour services at money wages which were lower than those being commanded by the employed . |
| 17 | EMPLOYMENT Secretary Gillian Shephard is furious that the money she gets to help train or retrain the unemployed may be slashed in half . |
| 18 | Youngsters and the unemployed will be given 250 hours of free community use at off-peak times . |
| 19 | The unemployed should be given such work , he said , adding that at present , Poland lacked the expertise , equipment and finance to deal with environmental decay . |
| 20 | Structurally , adult education for the unemployed must be seen as part of a wider reorientation of priorities within the education system as a whole towards the ‘ disadvantaged ’ . |
| 21 | The perception of their situation by the unemployed must be changed , and if you do not give a higher expectation to people , how could you motivate them to participate in training schemes ? |
| 22 | In order to do this they traced , via a newspaper report , a certain Mrs Keech , who had prophesied that a flood would cover the earth 's surface from the Arctic Circle to the Gulf of Mexico , but that the faithful would be saved by a flying saucer at midnight on the day of the flood , 21 December . |
| 23 | On the other hand , if the parents and older children can manage the transition successfully , the way out for the youngest may be eased . |
| 24 | A weighty body of objective opinion — of HMI , teachers , academics and local authorities — had built up during the 1970s to support the common-sense view that a pupil leaving school aged sixteen at the youngest should be prepared for the responsibilities and opportunities associated with the age of majority which he or she would attain no more than two years later . |
| 25 | Half of us could continue to drown ourselves in usquebaugh and self-pity ( ‘ Here 's tae us , / Wha 's like us ? / Damn few/ All deid ’ ) , the other half could relax , relieved that the English would be continuing to do our thinking for us . |
| 26 | The English will be expecting us . |
| 27 | Like the Grumman biplanes , all the 262s will be built to airworthy standards and the only deviation from the original plans will be their General Electric J–85 engines , which will fit into the engine cowlings without altering their contours . |
| 28 | The metric can be taken in the form of the line element ( 6.20 ) with . |
| 29 | Often the manitous could be heard in these places , and they would mimic passers-by rather like an echo . |
| 30 | I would wish warmly to join in congratulating the hon. Gentleman 's constituent on his 80th birthday , particularly as , next month , the income support premium for the over-80s will be raised in real terms for the second time in three years . |