Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] be [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of cutting , most should be increasing them . |
| 2 | The verderers had horses and within an hour or so could be carrying him back to some village outside the forest where he would have attention . |
| 3 | Yes , towards — we 're getting back towards our original man in the graveyard — yes , I mean I 'd like to say that you 're saying particularly to Reverend Flatman what should he or his parishioners be doing to help this man — it 's not as easy as saying that somebody individually should be offering him a room in their house because his problems are far more manifold and deep seated than that . |
| 4 | And normally they wo n't be as easy as this , so you probably will be doing them on the calculator , so to do this you just do , erm one take away whatever the per centage is . |
| 5 | To cut it loose now could be to see it sink . |
| 6 | Now duty rosters , trains , all the different trains that have got to be clean you see , and I was putting in ten minutes less than really would be required you see , and that saved er hours you see , saved hours . |
| 7 | In 1978 , he told five youths who tied up a 14-year-old boy as a target for their catapults : ‘ What is the best sentence for you really would be to have you tied to a tree and everybody throw stones at you . |
| 8 | Even might be blocking them . |
| 9 | it 's my body and nobody else should be touching it . |
| 10 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 11 | Although there are plenty of small traders around to whom EDI still means nothing , BT predicts that within two to three years over 50,000 firms worldwide will be using it . |