Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she must do was concentrate on getting her memory back so that she could get home to them as soon as humanly possible . |
| 2 | The very idea of working from home should have been anathema to me . |
| 3 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 4 | This observation , made by the village case study in 1984 , should have been cause for concern , since four years previously it had been demonstrated that the village practitioners in Bangladesh were willing and capable of being trained in the use and administration of oral rehydration solutions . |
| 5 | Fight as they did to keep the canoe on course they were driven westward of Castiglione ( near Sidi Ferruch ) when they should have been east of this port . |
| 6 | The improved neutron detector was finally ready ‘ later in the year ’ and ‘ within a few weeks ’ the results were positive enough that they formed the basis of the paper that was sent for publication on 23 March 1989 , the paper that should have been sibling to that of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 7 | Part of the problem must have been competition between northern and southern universities , ’ says Irvine . |
| 8 | It must have been reference for Jenny to be |
| 9 | This must have been part of a Roman cemetery as again in 1926 near this spot workmen digging on the edge of Lee 's Great Quarry ( Houlder Quarry ) , 20 yards from Clements Farm found a quantity of human bones and pottery . |
| 10 | I think that , too , must have been part of an identity check , particularly as she repeated it again at the end . " |
| 11 | As emerged later from the television news , he had been visiting the front near al-Amarah , during what must have been part of the offensive named by Tehran as Muharram al-Haram . |
| 12 | There must have been interference with performance of a contract |
| 13 | The wind-chill temperature that night must have been way below the — -25°C ( — -13°F ) of the air temperature . |
| 14 | Must have been quarter of an hour at least . |
| 15 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 16 | At times in the past there must have been tenderness between the members of this family ; the old lady had conceived and given birth to two children , nursed them and watched them grow into adult life . |
| 17 | The decision was not costly for India — Marsh was bowled shortly afterwards — but most onlookers were convinced that Boon , when 1 , must have been lbw to Kapil Dev . |
| 18 | Saturday night must have been pandemonium with everybody needing their turn in the washtub . |
| 19 | ‘ There must have been blood on their clothes or something . ’ |
| 20 | It must have been murder for our mum . ’ |
| 21 | It must have been hell for you . |
| 22 | The accused must have been party to the act which caused death , the law states . |
| 23 | Incredibly , that must have been Antoinette after all . |
| 24 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 25 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 26 | Two trained and experienced businessmen in one landscaping company is unusual , and Peter suspects it might have been part of the reason for success . |
| 27 | ‘ It might have been part of the equipment those scientists dropped into the sea when they were here , ’ he suggested . |
| 28 | As Hannah moves fluently along her journey into the past , what emerges most strongly to the listener is a sense of privilege — that here is a survivor of a lost way of life which was so innocent and simple , so materially deprived , yet spiritually rich , that it might have been part of another civilization altogether , surviving from an earlier century , perhaps . |
| 29 | Sommerlad might well have added that , although such an idea might have been anathema at home , nothing prevented the colonial authorities from publishing newspapers in Tanganyika , Kenya , the Rhodesias , Sierra Leone and many of the French territories . |
| 30 | Cobalt shook his head , which might have meant he did n't know or might have been admonishment for Oliver who was still holding the bottle of wine . |