Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There should be codes of practice and we should prosecute people who carelessly ignore the interests of their surroundings .
2 Notes taken should be matters of fact without embellishment .
3 In addition , opinions are canvassed on whether there should be bands of scale charge ; whether there should be lower charges for older cars and a special regime for classic cars ; whether the distributional impact of the change would be inequitable , given that it would be revenue-neutral ; and whether free car fuel should continue to be determined by engine size .
4 Too often it is forgotten that these should be ways of love and concord .
5 RWC defended their format on the dangerous premise that aspiring World Cup Sevens sides should be paragons of fitness .
6 ‘ My grandfather thought that wax museums should be places of learning , too .
7 However , as we said in the last chapter , it seems to be a condition for the strength and toughness of materials of this type that there should be planes of weakness parallel to the strongest direction .
8 In other words , the basic premise behind the establishment of RMCs was that they should be centres of excellence , performing a co-ordinating role for the provision of management education and its development in their regions .
9 Disciplinary frontiers should be channels of communication , not iron curtains of mutual unintelligibility and mistrust ; this regrettably narrow-minded approach misconstrues the complementary aims and interests of these cognate subjects .
10 ‘ There must be tons of rabbit bones under those bushes . ’
11 There must be principles of interpretation available to the hearer which enable him to determine , for instance , a relevant and reasonable interpretation of an expression ‘ John ’ on a particular occasion of utterance .
12 In other words there must be processes of recording and retrieval and the underlying mechanisms must be closely integrated with the mechanism of the store .
13 We think these must be bits of flesh .
14 ‘ Thing , ’ he said , ‘ I know you can hear me , because there must be loads of electricity in this building .
15 There must be oodles of territory in Saxony and Thuringia that used to be owned by the East German government .
16 The answers must be matters of fact , though disclaimers in the rules would have to be taken into account .
17 The Royal Commission did , however , recognise that custody and charge would not necessarily coincide , and that there might be intervals of time whilst the suspect was under arrest but not yet charged , and whilst he was on bail after being charged ; and the recommendation was made that the prohibition of questioning should also apply to these periods .
18 But then , there might be joints of meat and the ice-cream and all the desserts and all the all , I mean , we have had fresh veg , we 're not allowed to put peas on the carvery .
19 It is an aid to guide the reviewer of a contract towards those areas of an acquisition contract which are of accounting significance and which might be sources of dispute in the future — it is not a comprehensive guide to analysing every acquisition contract .
20 I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time .
21 In practice , there might be situations of doubt ; a man might claim that there was nothing to alert him to the girl 's age ( e.g. a 15-year-old girl , who looks much older , soliciting in a street with other prostitutes ) .
22 The creation of wealth and national harmony represent such values , and as rhetorical common-places , they provide the non-controversial sources for justifying matters which might be points of controversy ( Billig , 1987a ) .
23 Effectively , this can happen because there might be diseconomies of scope , so that individual production is cheaper than multi-output production .
24 The heads of these offices might be men of authority and influence , but they owed little of this to the departments over which they presided .
25 Factors influencing demand might be numbers of tourist visitors and growth in GNP respectively .
26 and they 'll be loads of room to fit in
27 There 'll be sections of society who wo n't accept you , no matter how charming or rich you are .
28 It 's very nice of you to ask me — erm — but I 've got a lot to do when I get back to England — erm — I 'd like to have a lie down … and there 'll be piles of washing … and I have n't got a hairdresser … ’
29 There 'll be months of physiotherapy but medical staff say she 's a fighter …
30 We could suggest that there could be beliefs of type 1 if there were beliefs which were justified by appeal to the facts and that a belief could be so justified if it was caused by the facts .
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