Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Gentleman follows such matters closely and he will be aware that the typical price of the major works that the national gallery must buy is several millions . |
| 2 | Frankly , I do not believe that there should have been all this talk about a little bit of majority voting on foreign policy . |
| 3 | Oh no it should have been two thousand . |
| 4 | It 's too late to argue now that the forms should have been available earlier . |
| 5 | On this argument the graptolites should have been bottom dwelling-colonial organisms , living by filtering small particles of food from the water . |
| 6 | It was a zig-zag orange and blue striped towel , and it should have been dazzling white cotton , with a gold bracelet on his lean bronzed strong-muscled forearm . |
| 7 | She should have been electric blue . |
| 8 | What should have been three comfy nights in a five-star hotel with en-suite jacuzzis turns into a full-blooded , mud-covered fight for survival . |
| 9 | It is therefore slightly ironic that it should have been this same Meistersinger which now finally stirred his feelings to the point where any " healthy " critical stance became impossible . |
| 10 | The only head of public interest upon which the inspectors rely is the prevention of crime , and so the question to be answered is whether on the material before it the court should have been satisfied that disclosure of Mr. Warner 's sources is ‘ necessary … for the prevention of … crime ’ within the meaning of section 10 . |
| 11 | It should have been twenty forty , six , eighty pence . |
| 12 | Miller and his colleagues ( e.g. Miller and Springer 1973 ; Miller and Schachtman 1985 ) have shown that certain ‘ reminder ’ treatments are capable of restoring lost behaviour , thus demonstrating that the information necessary for the behaviour in question must have been present all along but was merely unavailable to the mechanisms responsible for controlling behaviour . |
| 13 | After five minutes , the Land Rover looked a hundred yards away , but must have been four hundred . |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't had indigestion since that occasion in , let me see , it must have been nineteen sixty-one , when I dined with … ’ |
| 15 | Cos I I got one off teletext erm er it must have been nineteen ninety now for Tenerife four star hotel , seven days , East Midlands Airport for one hundred and fifteen pounds half board er er the following day which was fantastic . |
| 16 | ‘ The fact that Simon worshipped the ground you walked on means you must have been one hundred per cent certain that when you told him he 'd insist on marrying you — which he did — so what difference did that one day make to you ? ’ |
| 17 | Today there must have been fifteen hundred people here . |
| 18 | There must have been five hundred varieties . |
| 19 | Robert Warshow was to argue quite rightly that there must have been much vicarious pleasure in the enjoyment of these films for audiences could watch gangsters break the law , use violence , take risks , and die but were free themselves to leave the theatre safely . |
| 20 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |
| 21 | Sometimes , it is true , they must have been little more than what Marc Bloch described as ‘ l'endroit où on passe ’ ; but one may presume that efforts were made to drain long-distance roads and keep them clear of obstruction ; and kings and princes in several countries regarded the main roads as their roads . |
| 22 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 23 | Among them must have been many new men pushing up from below . |
| 24 | Though the prestige of Aldfrith 's descent from the Uí Néill will not have been negligible , he was born out of wedlock and there must have been many legitimate sons of other Northumbrian lords who claimed descent from Ida . |
| 25 | Below the exemption line there must have been many small masters . |
| 26 | There must have been many different ways for brachiopods to exploit their simple mode of life . |
| 27 | Although only a few churches were listed in Domesday Book for Sussex , there must have been many more and the growth of towns and Wealden colonisation saw the establishment of a fixed parish system by the early thirteenth century . |
| 28 | To sustain carnivores , there must have been many more herbivores ; but the idea that two of each kind were created somewhere and slowly spread and multiplied would not go with real population dynamics . |
| 29 | There must have been many jealous eyes directed towards Russell who , owing to his association with the College of Arms , was able to attract a fair proportion of the up-market trade within London . |
| 30 | After all , there must have been many comfortable nursing homes in Sydney where her father , who had then been having difficulty in telling even night from day , would have received the sort of care and attention which he had needed . |