Example sentences of "[modal v] be [art] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 There should be no attempt to shorten it to newspaper-headline form .
2 There should be no need to cut them , as the length is exactly twice the width .
3 Lenny Campion ran forward and Sorvino hung back , ready to sprint for the car if this should be a trick to shake them off .
4 He must be a fool to ask you , after you were so rude and violent this afternoon . ’
5 Particularly if there 's any suggestion that anything a bit like hypnosis has been used um this er business of of well it must be the therapist making them up or putting them up to it in some way becomes a particular argument that 's raised quite often .
6 Must be the oranges do you think ? tipped out of your .
7 And that must be the cry tell them , go and join your own party .
8 Oh yeah bit difficult to know which is which , that must be the wasp do you think ?
9 There must be an ambulance to meet us .
10 Service plans come with relevant committees , being this one in this case but structures and structures strictly speaking , are still the remit of P and Q , so I think it might be a courtesy to let me have a look at the structure because they are simply right , guardians of the organisation P and Q
11 I know you play golf it might be a danger putting you on the golf courses .
12 erm on the way it might be an idea to take it down with you
13 But of course something like this would do that but you have to allow for the jitter as well and this sort of algorithm might might be the way to do it .
14 You 're paying them starvation wages , and someone else therefore is keeping them alive , might be their husbands , it might be the state giving them charity , it might be the state giving them pensions or unemployment benefits , it might be charities giving them clothes and food just to keep them alive , and that that 's immoral .
15 You 're paying them starvation wages , and someone else therefore is keeping them alive , might be their husbands , it might be the state giving them charity , it might be the state giving them pensions or unemployment benefits , it might be charities giving them clothes and food just to keep them alive , and that that 's immoral .
16 Sometimes there might be the temptation to leave it until the next day if the weather is bad or your car will not start .
17 Now might be the time to follow it up with a few troop directions in fluent French .
18 ‘ As it is , this new crisis they 're having to face might be the thing to push them towards solving their difficulties .
19 I 've made a reservation on the Pan Am flight in the morning , and there 'll be a limo to pick you up at Kennedy .
20 ‘ Well , I tell yer , Alfred , it 'll be a relief to get it orf after me afters , ’ said Mr Beavis .
21 One day there 'll be a letter tellin' you he 's all right , just you see if there is n't . ’
22 It 'll be a pleasure to do it , after a year of city-life .
23 this year , this week then , this 'll be the week going he 'll come up
24 ‘ There could be a way to save him , ’ he said , as if the possibility had only just occurred to him .
25 Stepping is the new fashion in exercise and if you have n't tried it this could be the chance to give it a go .
26 Hitchcock could be the man to help them achieve that , despite a threat from Russian keeper , Dimitri Kharin , due to arrive from CSKA Moscow in the near future .
27 He could be the player to get us back on track .
28 He 'd be a fool to let it go for under sixteen even to a sitting tenant . "
29 I 'd be a fool to miss it . ’
30 She 'd be a fool to forget it .
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