Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Clark thought there might be some need for review while Adrian Bird felt that a blanket prohibition should only be a starting point which should be used in conjunction with local knowledge . |
| 2 | The 29-year-old complained bitterly about pin positions , said it was stupid that players shooting scores of ‘ 101 and 98 ’ should be allowed to compete and claimed a tournament allowing such poor players should not be a Ryder Cup points-counting event . |
| 3 | It is not that redistributive taxation is wrong , or should not be a core part of any left programme . |
| 4 | They agree that there should not be a currency union before there has been much more economic convergence within the Community . |
| 5 | It does not mean , however , that he should not exercise his franchise and vote as he wishes at local government elections , but he should not be a party man otherwise his advice might be regarded as being tainted and the council as a whole , in the end , would cease to have confidence in his advice . |
| 6 | The CBI does not even go this far : Sir Michael Angus , its president , says that compliance with the code should not be a listing requirement because of excessive bureaucracy . |
| 7 | I 'm I 'm a little unclear exactly how much footloose allocation remains in Selby , I I er think I understand it to be quite small , taking account of , but I would simply say to the panel Leeds ' concern is that we should not be a counter focus in that corridor , which er most most greatly bear on our attempts to regenerate our inner areas and use our our many brown field sites . |
| 8 | Since p , V and U are all properties of a system , that is they are all state functions , it follows from the above equation that H must also be a state function . |
| 9 | The art director , as well as being an ideas man and a designer , must also be a sound technician because an advertisement has got to work , which means it must fill the allotted space attractively and effectively . |
| 10 | There should also be a Holiday Information Book in the reception area of your hotel giving full details , as well as helpful information about everything from stamps to church services , meal times to telephoning home . |
| 11 | Leaped ‘ There must now be a question mark over their future . ’ |
| 12 | The other disadvantage has to be that your ferret must then be a line ferret , and it then suffers the disadvantage of having to pull an obstruction , albeit a small one , around any snag that exists within the burrow . |
| 13 | In reception a stunning blonde girl who should either be a White House secretary or in Hollywood dishes out the keys . |
| 14 | There are other signs that might lead you to believe that there 's things not as they might be , the legs may not be equal length particularly if only one is dislocated and that 's fairly obvious is n't it because the , the , the ball joint 's not in the socket and there 's a bigger gap so the leg hangs down longer and you 've all changed a baby have n't you and you see that they 've got little creases in the insides of their legs and across their buttocks , and those creases may not be a mirror matching they are normally , so those are clues . |
| 15 | However , if a farmer decides to let out , in return for money , some of the rooms in the farmhouse to friends , relatives and associates during the summer months , this may not be a material change of use and planning permission is not required : Blackpool Borough Council v. Secretary of State for the Environment 11980 ] 40 P & CR 104 ( QBD ) . |
| 16 | Such recycled water may not be a health hazard to the human population but it may be highly detrimental to fish . |
| 17 | This laughter may not be a safety valve reducing tension , but a device to conceal an urge to violence . |
| 18 | first , while registration may not be a priority point , failure to register , as we have seen , renders the charge void and therefore registration is a necessary , although not sufficient , condition to obtain priority ; |
| 19 | Liane deterrence may thus be a side benefit and it is possibly attained in other plants by different mechanisms as in the case of some tree ferns , where marcescent fronds may deter both lianes and epiphytes . |
| 20 | Juliana Hatfield might not be a gender warrior or fight city hall , but distances herself from the herd of two-bit supposedly alternative US bar-bands by being outwardly conservative and inwardly maverick . |
| 21 | ‘ Aah 'll not be a slave ti this land , for no reward , like Uncle George was . ’ |
| 22 | Barring a last-minute volte-face by the MoD , the aircraft will then be at the mercy of the highest bidder , who might just be a scrap dealer . |
| 23 | As a rule of thumb , when d s get down much below 0.05 , we can regard them as so small that they might just be a sampling fluke ; we will conclude that for all practical purposes there is no effect of one variable upon another , and erase arrows with very small path coefficients from our model . |
| 24 | they 'll still be a health service , but peo |
| 25 | It 'll always be a sterling fund , but it can be moved into other currencies , or into gilts , as your fund obviously is . |
| 26 | You 'll never be a pipe smoker . |
| 27 | ‘ Look , I 'll never be a concert flautist . |
| 28 | Indeed , even if a proposed market counterparty indicates that he does not want to be a market counterparty under the SFA test , he may nonetheless be a market counterparty in relation to the particular transaction concerned under the SIB test . |
| 29 | I 'd rather be a street sweeper . ’ |
| 30 | But he 'd rather be an Ibrox sub than a top team star with any side south of the border . |