Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said Barrow : ‘ What we must do is take confidence from those results . |
| 2 | But , with the prospect of a GATT trade deal already clouded by Mr Clinton 's dithering , the last thing he should do is damage world economic relations further by failing to prevent an international tax war . |
| 3 | Ultimately , he dashed out of bed and caught a cab to the theatre — where he arrived thirty minutes after what should have been curtain time , to see his erstwhile audience walking away , dejected looks on most of the faces . |
| 4 | That was the last , , I should have been market trader , been shouting out that voice and |
| 5 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 6 | it always starts but I feel there must have been fuel evaporation . |
| 7 | Like Southern Baptists of Tennessee , many Northern Irish Presbyterians believe that the wine enjoyed by Jesus and His disciples must have been grape juice , since Christians do not drink alcohol . |
| 8 | What I might do is steal credit cards and use them . |
| 9 | In normal circumstances 1939 might have been election year . |
| 10 | Fidel Castro is no far-distant Arab , but rules an island only 90 miles from Key West , on what might have been home ground had politics gone slightly differently less than a century ago . |
| 11 | The men might have been centre stage on day one of Wimbledon , but thanks to Atalanta , the women will soon have their day in more ways than one . |
| 12 | It might have been mince meat just ti cooked in tins . |
| 13 | ‘ An excellent cake , miss , but perhaps a trifle overbaked , ’ Chignell said delicately , when Breeze remarked with a sigh that it might have been almond rock . |
| 14 | All I could do was watch television . |
| 15 | I wanted to run out and scream , but Mum had the key and all I could do was stand stock still , listening to the thumping of my heart . |
| 16 | She said something to me , a simple introduction , but all I could do was stare open-mouthed at her . |
| 17 | Gillroy and Davies hit the roof several times before managing to strap themselves down in the cabin , where all they could do was sit ashen-faced and pray . |
| 18 | All you could do was show warmth and love and affection , and continue to " be there " to pick up the bits . |
| 19 | The only dish she made that we could tolerate was syrup tart , which we praised extravagantly , with the result that it became our unhealthy staple diet . |
| 20 | The ale could have been sea water for all he tasted . |
| 21 | It could have been exam pressure we 've read about people like that at Oxford University . |
| 22 | Ealdred 's kinswoman could have been Abbess Aethelburh , daughter of a local lord , Aelfred , who was given Withington in Gloucestershire in the 770s ( CS 217 : S 1255 ) . |
| 23 | If he was a bit deadlier in the balls he 'd have been world champion . ’ |
| 24 | They thought she may have been sleep walking . |
| 25 | Her dramatic assertion may have been wish fulfilment , a hyperbolic statement expressing her real desires , but with such an unstable outlook we could n't take any chances : publication was brought forward to June . |
| 26 | It may have been jet lag or it may have been the excitement . |
| 27 | WALLS The only thing left if your house or flat is still not as warm as you would like is wall insulation . |
| 28 | It would have been storybook stuff had he returned to win the British Seniors ' Open at Lytham or defend his Forte PGA Seniors ' Open title at Royal Dublin for the third successive year . |
| 29 | One square 's separation would have been dagger range . |
| 30 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |