Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [be] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest questions the members of a management partnership must answer are whether sharing is practicable , whether its members believe in it and how long — if it is a reality — it takes the outside world to believe that it can provide the promised level of quality . |
| 2 | The question that the Government must answer is whether , if they were to maintain their stand-back attitude and what they call their options , British investors — not simply inward investors — who want to sell their produce throughout the Community and the rest of Europe would give priority to investing and developing in Britain when they had every reason to believe that the Government were ever ready to withdraw from the European process . |
| 3 | Oh and , well it must 've been since we were at Malton so we 'd 've had it , what , about four three or four years when we went to Malton ? |
| 4 | It must 've been while I was stood up there . |
| 5 | well where was I ? , oh , must 've been when I went to the loo Have you had a drink Martin ? |
| 6 | What the Test & County Cricket Board must decide is whether they want the Minors in or not . |
| 7 | The question that Englishmen yes , and Englishwomen must decide is whether or not they are prepared to knuckle under to the unspeakable creep Mathews , the demented McLachlan and the absurd Bottomley . |
| 8 | He told magistrates : ‘ What you must decide is whether Mr Sturdy knew the tapes to be counterfeits . ’ |
| 9 | Despite Leicester 's pressure the Tranmere goalkeeper was not as active as he should have been although his defence must take some credit for that . |
| 10 | There has been some confusion — I do not know why there should have been because it was made clear last night by the Secretary of State for Wales — about the position of students . |
| 11 | Robert knew that his stepdaughter would have a little inheritance , not as much as it should have been because that stubborn old woman had dipped into her capital to buy worthless stock , but it would be a nice little nest-egg all the same . |
| 12 | It it should have been because I put in . |
| 13 | Yet the officially measured real consumption in the past two years has been stronger than it should have been if the official measurement of GDP were accurate . |
| 14 | Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 15 | Yet there should have been if he had walked across that floor without his boots on . |
| 16 | It must have been after I moved . ’ |
| 17 | Indeed , if it was not clear before she went to Australia , it must have been before she left , that only when she has once more played in The Championships — and preferably won the title — will people be ready to forgive and forget . |
| 18 | This must have been because it-was his now , he owned it . |
| 19 | The reason why the House of Lords cut down the meaning of the phrase must have been because the House did not believe that Parliament intended to cover the particular situation . |
| 20 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 21 | The drive down was very straightforward until the last few miles ( it must have been because up until then we did n't get lost ) when we had a slight hitch and had to study the map a little more carefully . |
| 22 | He did not find Lawrence and Morris easy to reconcile but since " the House in R v Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Lawrence 's case , there must have been because [ the victim ] , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the [ accused ] taking anything in excess of [ what was agreed ] . |
| 23 | ‘ I though it must have been because they were accusing each other of sleeping with each other 's husbands , ’ said McLean . |
| 24 | I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front . |
| 25 | There was a Bede , Natura Rerum , in which the blues seemed still as intense as they must have been when first painted . |
| 26 | How glorious it must have been when its mosaic , created in 1371 by Venetians using Bohemian glass , was newly installed . |
| 27 | So if he did take them , it must have been when he was here before . ’ |
| 28 | Behind me , I could hear Mac 's screaming turn … muffled … must have been when … when his face was sucked into the wall . |
| 29 | This must have been when Parkin said he was out on the roof having a smoke , Dexter concluded . |
| 30 | Oh that must have been when I smacked my nose on my Walkman . |