Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very true that in one sense it must be implied that although there is no existing difference , still that a difference may arise between the parties : yet I think the distinction between an existing difference and one which may arise is a material one , and one which has properly been relied on in this case … |
| 2 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 3 | What ought to remain is a technique for learning , and a grasp of intellectual principles that may be applied and reapplied in different circumstances . |
| 4 | They may include being a wife to your husband , a mother to your children , or a daughter to your parents . |
| 5 | Now , perhaps , people will be more inclined to do just that , and if they are , then what we may need is a trade union link review group mark two . |
| 6 | ‘ You should 've been a policeman . |
| 7 | Shallow , samey gameplay ruins what should 've been a really rad game . |
| 8 | She always always oh she she had a second sight like that , I think she should 've been a doctor if she 'd lived in these this day and age . |
| 9 | They say I should 've been a member of Leith branch . |
| 10 | You should 've been a lot through more than five . |
| 11 | I 'm coming up a hill near some kind of huge church or cathedral — there must 've been a service or a concert going on because people are pouring out — one of them 's singing a high trill and her boyfriend 's cross : ‘ Please , Miranda ! |
| 12 | ‘ It must 've been a pretty powerful bloke who did that ; father was no weakling . ’ |
| 13 | It must 've been a belt that 's come right through central London and completely missed the suburbs , or North London anyway suburbs |
| 14 | There must 've been a little bit of snow |
| 15 | And that I should think is a source of this . |
| 16 | In my respectful submission there could be A , no question that the jury would be discharged and B , in the submission er some er judicial displeasure of an experienced police officer volunteering what any police officer must know is A inadmissible and B not an answer to the question . |
| 17 | you may even and this is a bit I mean Saturday lunchtime is a bit I 'm almost almost er oh the producer 's going , Careful careful , which he should know is a red flag to a bull and I might say no but I wo n't . |
| 18 | A task has been allocated to the human operator and what he must do is a function of the needs of the hardware . |
| 19 | Equation ( 5.7 ) merely states that the risk premium that holders of security 1 should expect is a function ( ) of the market risk premium . |
| 20 | Those negotiations are a matter for the liquidator and shareholders , and the question of what the court should do is a matter for the court and the parties before it , not the Government . |
| 21 | What we must achieve is a balance . |
| 22 | What you should avoid is a board with a very wide square tail . |
| 23 | It is now recognised that the costing of community-based care to take account of the wider back-up services on which it must depend is a complicated calculation which was not available with any degree of sophistication at the height of the movement away from institutional care ( Knapp , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | Can he say to him , ‘ You must stop being a Masai . |
| 25 | The very least that the tenant should tolerate is a proviso that the light to the premises should not be " materially " affected by any such works . |
| 26 | I should have been a lesbian ! |
| 27 | Hugh Kenner veers unexpectedly into the idiom of the British schoolboy : ‘ Blast should have been a great lark ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I loved the song , and I think it should have been a hit , but there again the record company did nothing to promote it . |
| 29 | And what should have been a piece of gaily irresponsible nonsense becomes impregnated with evil . ’ |
| 30 | That there should have been a Navy League , a Tariff Reform League , and an Anti-Socialist Union filled with Conservatives was an indication that there were many Conservative supporters who felt that the Conservative party was not doing its job properly . |