Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It should be before Tracey goes .
2 The real measure should be whether selection is significant against normal levels of background variation .
3 Consider why it should be that A and B are difficult to discriminate in the first place .
4 But in Crathie Church next Saturday , the only concern should be that Anne is finding the joy that she so richly deserves .
5 It should be that Richard does it , though he might choose to delegate it .
6 Does he accept that another element of the patients charter in this day and age should be that hospitals are constructed in a way that shows that we have learnt the lessons of the past ?
7 The message should be that schools are about education and learning and that worthwhile learning is hard work and we in good schools try to make this work as pleasurable as possible .
8 I wondered why this should be when Granny was so particular , but I was soon roused from my thoughts by Mum .
9 You ca n't , it must be since Paul did and the man turned up and to Yvonne , I 'm not going
10 ‘ The concern must be whether interest rates have already been too high for too long , ’ Mr Wyatt said .
11 The fear must be that Clinton might unpick some of the deals , such as the one on agriculture , but this was thought to be unlikely , given his commitment to moving out of recession .
12 Bede 's statement that Chad was sent by Oswiu to the archbishop of Canterbury to be consecrated , only to find that Deusdedit had died ( HE 111 , 28 ) , is unlikely to be correct because Wilfrid had known that Deusdedit was dead when he was earlier seeking consecration as Ealhfrith 's bishop and the probability must be that Oswiu 's court would have known this too .
13 The probability must be that Ceolwulf and Ecgberht were in accord over the future of the diocese of Hexham and that both approved of Acca 's continued exclusion .
14 Rather , the reason must be that principles not generated by the Rawlsian method will fail to fulfil the social role of a doctrine of justice .
15 Our fundamental assumption must be that genes are ‘ selfish ’ entities , working for their own propagation in the gene pool of the species .
16 The rational view after yesterday 's announcement must be that Charles will never become King .
17 The implication must be that Eadberht denied that he had previously taken holy orders and affirmed the legitimacy of his claim , but Archbishop Aethelheard fled and Christ Church , Canterbury , was probably sacked .
18 He decided that this must be because Julian had hurt her more than she cared to admit .
19 If sanctioned norms are necessary in the human case , or socialization into rule-observing behaviour , this must be because constraints on human responses in these areas are not , or not significantly , genetically based .
20 He was concentrating furiously now , for , he thought , if I know of these places , then surely it must be because people have been able to talk of them .
21 It must be because people have come out .
22 For some calls they wear plain clothes , but mostly work is done in uniform , as it must be if neighbourhood policing is to work .
23 ‘ No , no , you see , we are in Rome and must be as Romans … ’
24 Other personal things might be that Tommy , your little lad has a school sports day .
25 A possible explanation might be that coins were used in the same way as in Italy but by fewer people , namely only those in urban settlements .
26 That 's it , that 's what I had they told and they said that it might be that she 's just , she 's just is small for her size , but it might be that Katie taken all the goodness from Hannah
27 Examples of such core values might be that customers are always right , that we need 100 per cent product reliability , that we are a computer company and will stick with it , and so on .
28 One way of answering the question might be that Stalin was as unorthodox a Marxist as Makarenko , but this avoids the crucial problem of political control .
29 A fair conclusion might be that Kennedy found it helpful — perhaps therapeutic — to talk to Ormsby-Gore and Macmillan whether or not they basically influenced his thinking .
30 In rural areas it might be that people will tell the parents of youths whom they see committing some offence ; and although crimes may be committed they will often be dealt with informally and so will not figure in the criminal statistics .
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