Example sentences of "[modal v] not [be] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should n't be it 's six o'clock |
| 2 | My brother-in-law said he read in the paper that erm over a year sort of the amount of oil tipped on our land and down drains which should n't be there is almost like equivalent to the disaster at Exxon Valdez . |
| 3 | This may not be what is required at all and so careful and gentle questioning will be needed . |
| 4 | But we also appreciate that tourism is ever-changing in nature , and that what is demanded today in terms of facilities and opportunities may not be what is required tomorrow . |
| 5 | This is a very difficult area , it would seem our type of qualification may not be what is required for our members to receive grades . |
| 6 | that they would n't be it 's |
| 7 | Well , I mean you may be right I ca n't be I 'm not I 'm not absolutely certain myself but er it would be nice to think that we were represented at a local authority level , yeah , by different cross-sections of our community . |
| 8 | There may however be a way of adapting it to say that the solipsist will be unable to use the term ‘ beetle ’ to communicate with his later self ( in a diary , perhaps ) , since what gives the term its meaning to him now can not be what was then in the box ( an object to which he now has no access ) but what he now thinks was in the box . |