Example sentences of "[modal v] be more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some manufacturers guarantee CDs for only 30 years but Mr Bert Gall , general manager of optical systems at Philips , said the life of the average disc should be more than 1,000 years , though it could be reduced to 50 if manufacturing was poor and the discs were mistreated . |
| 2 | Length should be more than 2 metres or 6ft , but is not critical . |
| 3 | Bearing in mind that it is essential to include your own product somewhere in the prize structure , consider the size of the top prize vis-a-vis the second tier of prizes , whether there should be more than two tiers of prizes or whether there should be , say , 50 or 100 prizes of equal weight . |
| 4 | It follows that the question " How many substances ? " is strictly meaningless , for given the way " substance " is defined , it is logically impossible that there should be more than one . |
| 5 | ‘ A camel or she-camel , ’ he was saying , ‘ if chosen , should be more than five years old . ’ |
| 6 | It should be more than one person deciding it . |
| 7 | There must be more than fifty passengers to each stove . ’ |
| 8 | Then we would share the profits — nice because , worldwide , they must be more than £1 million . |
| 9 | ‘ He must be more than 17 , ’ they all said of Pakistan 's latest teenage prodigy , Ata-ur-Rehman . |
| 10 | The distance has been given as 4500 light-years , but may be as much as 7000 , in which case it must be more than a million times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 11 | Ace could n't count them , but she thought there must be more than twenty . |
| 12 | There must be more than one focus . ) |
| 13 | Probationary members must be more than 18 years of age and an amateur must hold a current handicap of 1 ; if already a professional , she must be supported by a reference from her professional golf association or Tour . |
| 14 | But Lisa , without ever actually consciously thinking about it , had always assumed there must be more than one woman in his life . |
| 15 | ‘ There must be more than one . |
| 16 | ‘ Although I emigrated in 1965 it must be more than 30 years since Keith and I celebrated our birthdays together , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Erm , there must be more than six people . |
| 18 | He must be more than seventy . |
| 19 | That must be more than sixty three . |
| 20 | It is also clear that in some places , Marx at least , seems willing to envisage qualifications which are even more fundamental ; for example , that there might be more than one line of evolution . |
| 21 | In ‘ millefiori ’ paperweights , for which Baccarat was especially famous , there might be more than 100 canes crammed together in colourful profusion . |
| 22 | This committee scrutinised the case of each prisoner serving a life sentence in order to set the date for the first review , which might be more than seven years after the date of sentence . |
| 23 | If you are slow in your reactions you might be more than 5° off your original QDM ( as above ) by the time you have decided what to do , so the turn to offset the RC 10° might well involve a turn of more than the 15° above . |
| 24 | It is not an easy task to find a particular burrow , because these wasps can nest in quite dense groups ; there might be more than twenty burrows within a circle of five yard radius . |
| 25 | By February 1969 , Hello , Dolly ! was ready for screening , but the Broadway production was still running and it looked as if it might be more than two years before the film could be shown . |
| 26 | Ten dollars would n't get her very far , but there might be more where these came from . |
| 27 | You are going to decide now , by looking at your graph how you could improve this piece of work and I want you to write the target you decide on , it could be more than one , in the space that says I would improve this work by , you 're to write that now please , off you go and while you 're doing that let's get the register done , shh , shh shh , shh Sarah |
| 28 | She thought that not one of them could be more than eighteen or twenty , and she remembered how it had been said that the Robemaker scoured Ireland , taking the sons of the ordinary Irish families to work here . |
| 29 | I doubted if she could be more than fifty yards away , but I was n't going to risk missing her — once carried past her , it would be pretty well hopeless to try to find her . |
| 30 | ‘ What you 're saying is , there could be more than one person who hated Angy enough to do that to her . |