Example sentences of "[modal v] be the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think about these things : 1 What is the main effect you want to have as you read the poem ? 2 How can you vary the way in which you read it ? 3 Which parts should be the loudest ? 4 Are there any parts that should be quiet ? 5 How should the speed vary as you read ? |
| 2 | It is bitterly ironic that Somalia , the only nation in Africa with one ethnic group , one culture , one language and one religion should be the most deeply divided of the continent 's 52 fractious countries . |
| 3 | The result is that the friendship of a husband and wife should be the most intimate and most spiritual friendship two human beings can ever enjoy together . |
| 4 | To build the most stable and convenient soil structure possible from the available resources should be the most important task of every farmer . |
| 5 | Ideally , this is the kind of love that should be the most important of the many elements which form the basis of human marriages . |
| 6 | Fernando Botero 's ‘ Quatre Femmes ’ of 1987 should be the most expensive work sold with an estimate of $800,000–1,000,000 ( £533,000–666,000 ) followed by Rufina Tamayo 's ‘ Figura ’ from 1957 ( est. $500,000–600,000 ; £333,000–400,000 ) . |
| 7 | Ironically Marxists should be the most extreme individualists . |
| 8 | The reality of life is of course that it is the bad news man who should be the most prized . |
| 9 | ‘ Light should be the most important material in our project , ’ proclaimed the architect . |
| 10 | Notes are so often hard to understand , even for the person who wrote them , and yet they should be the most transparently clear of all means of communication . |
| 11 | A ‘ like for like ’ comparison ( eg bad debts being compared against bad debts and tax liailities with tax liabilities ) should be the most agreed to by a purchaser . |
| 12 | Unilever 's success stories include its Italian ice-cream which now has 80 per cent of what should be the most sophisticated ice-cream market . |
| 13 | If comfort is important to you — and if it is n't now , it almost certainly will be at a later date — anchor pieces like sofas and large armchairs should be the best looking and most comfortable you can pay for and find . |
| 14 | Self-respect stimulated by a little gentle rivalry demanded that all should be the very best available . |
| 15 | twenty is your braking distance and your overall should be the there in the middle , which is forty , that 's cos |
| 16 | To this end she dressed in the most outrageously modern and expensive clothes , ‘ so that they should be the more staring to men 's sight ’ . |
| 17 | If you treat me like an ox to be bargained for , I should be the more careful not to annoy you . |
| 18 | There should be the least possible tension between the artist and his subject . |
| 19 | But Harrods 's biggest concern must be the generally worsening climate for all department stores . |
| 20 | Gary Speed must be the longest serving player at Leeds now with about 5 years . |
| 21 | Czechoslovaks must be the best fed and the best shod of Eastern Europe 's new wave revolutionaries . |
| 22 | A BT spokesman said : ‘ The Pennan box must be the best known in the whole of Scotland . |
| 23 | ‘ Judo has always been a technical sport for me — it must be the most complex of any in the Olympic Games , ’ White said . |
| 24 | Australian flies must be the most persistent in the world . |
| 25 | Love must be the most beautiful flower than can be cultivated in transcendent garden of the mind . |
| 26 | In what must be the most liberal judgement ever handed down by a football authority , the FA disciplinary committee decided it was unintentional . |
| 27 | The following gorge must be the most continuous section of grade IV+ water in Wales . |
| 28 | Returning to our canine theme , dogs still carry with them the same instincts possessed by their wild ancestors , still remaining members of that same species — the wild wolf — even after so many generations of breeding have made them what must be the most diverse species upon Earth . |
| 29 | This remains a good way of doing things , and must be the most pain-free way of building up a stock of components . |
| 30 | At £60 million for two copies of a 1½-page document , it must be the most expensive publication in history . |