Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be first again . |
| 2 | Just because you receive more official letters about a particular payment does not mean that it should be first on the list to be paid off , if it means ignoring other important debts such as a mortgage , gas and electricity , or perhaps the taxman . |
| 3 | NEC should be first out with compatible products this December , followed by Sony and Sanyo Electric in mid 1993 , Nihon Olivetti in the 3rd quarter of 1993 on its M-700 platform , and Silicon Graphics probably late in 1993 . |
| 4 | Just because you receive more official letters about a particular payment does not mean that it should be first on the list to be paid off , if it means ignoring other important debts such as a mortgage , gas and electricity , or perhaps the taxman . |
| 5 | A recent report by the Select Committee on Procedure criticised the abuse of this process for publicity purposes and recommended that the text of any bill proposed should be first lodged with the Public Bill Office . |
| 6 | ‘ With respect , ’ said Earl Robert , standing courteously aloof , and in the mildest and most reasonable of voices , ‘ how should we determine who should be first to try the fates ? |
| 7 | I have the impression that the arts should be first and foremost about developing pupils ' autonomy , not only in terms of the artistic skills which were being achieved , but also in valuing the vital quality of independent thinking . |
| 8 | Can I , can I just draw attention to an error under paragraph one nine two , the date at the beginning of the second line should be first December , sorry first October , nineteen ninety three , not tenth of December . |
| 9 | Though it 's not the kind of thing should be second nature to a kid . |
| 10 | I should be next ( Mark Cumfreis ) . |
| 11 | we , it should be next Thursday but the school 's on |
| 12 | It must be second nature . ’ |
| 13 | Social problems are discursively constructed and demand policy resolutions that must be first and foremost valuable in the context of this discourse . |
| 14 | In 1911 he wrote : ‘ In the past man has been first , in the future the system must be first . ’ |
| 15 | Chatam must be first choice |
| 16 | One can therefore extract a very simple theme in the work on spoken language interpreting : it is the intended meaning which must be first understood , and then transposed into the target language by the interpreter . |
| 17 | In other words , all the classes for functions of clothes must be first enumerated before we proceed to consider subdivision by other principles , such as price . |
| 18 | If more than lip service is to be paid to the notion that we are all equal , then it must be first acknowledged that we are born unequal , and that some of us have to work harder than others to make up for it . |
| 19 | This , they said , should accompany the ‘ profound managerial change ’ which must be next on the agenda , somehow to tackle Londoners ' personal and local dissatisfaction with the police . |
| 20 | it 's usually at the beginning of June , it was n't on Saturday so it must be next Saturday |
| 21 | She heard the hum of pleasant voices , and guessed she must be last down . |
| 22 | An Arab can never know the exact date of his birth according to our calendar , for if he was born on 12th January , that day in the Muslim calendar might be 12th January of the previous year by the time he was twenty or twenty-one , owing to the shorter months . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you think it might be third time lucky ? ’ |
| 24 | They might be next . |
| 25 | So , by the time tax is calculated and paid , rates could be considerably lower than they might be next week . |
| 26 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 27 | It might be next week or a year next Tuesday . |
| 28 | I mean our , the more I think about it I think the main , we might even go to Germany to see my sister , so it might be next year , but I ca n't get Tony to talk at the moment , I do n't know erm , |
| 29 | ‘ Sure , you 'll be first jockey to a big stable within the next couple of seasons , ’ Kinane was saying . |
| 30 | You 're right at the head of the pecking order , when the cash generation starts you 'll be first in line ? |