Example sentences of "of they [modal v] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It came as a shock when President Babangida said the associations were rooted in ‘ ethnic and religious bigotry ’ and that all of them would be dissolved forthwith . |
| 32 | There are no hansoms ; and if there were , a file of them would be needed to transport a very ordinary Sahib 's effects . |
| 33 | Much therefore depended on which brand of them would be returned and whether , as in the past , they would align themselves with the Conservative Party and accept its whip . |
| 34 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |
| 35 | They were still there and I was sure that one of them would be going my way . |
| 36 | Preparatory men in because if you took a body of men into a bakery half of them would be standing looking about doing nothing until something was prepared . |
| 37 | It is small wonder that the tree is an endangered species when you consider how many of them must be chopped down to provide one week 's worth of trade press . |
| 38 | In this discussion we shall have to make frequent use of the terms cost and expenses of production ; and some provisional account of them must be given before proceeding further . |
| 39 | If muggers can be deterred by punitive sentencing , then some of them must be made an example of . |
| 40 | Some of them must be playing snooker three and four times a week in two or three different leagues . |
| 41 | In order to infer that the effect of X on Y is a direct causal effect , any variable which is related to both X and Y and causally prior to at least one of them must be controlled . |
| 42 | These are only a few of the choices before them , but even these are very difficult to prioritize and at times some of them must be sacrificed at the expense of others in this play . |
| 43 | ‘ Some of them must be educated . ’ |
| 44 | Like everything else on Barbados , life is very relaxed for the pair of them and they are never on a lead , but perhaps one of them should be tethered ! |
| 45 | Now the poor economies are known to be not so poor as had generally been supposed , more of them should be invited to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( whose membership is currently confined to the 24 ‘ industrial ’ countries ) or to attend the annual economic summit of the leaders of the G7 . |
| 46 | The rule for identifying the relevant variables was given in chapter 12 : when we are assessing the direct effect of one variable upon another , any third variable which is causally connected to both variables and prior to one of them should be controlled . |
| 47 | You are so shit-scared of homosexuality and so utterly stupid , small-minded and screwed-up that your only reaction to ‘ faggots ’ is that ‘ every one of them should be electrocuted or shot ’ . |
| 48 | The two of them should be playing here now , giving these commuters some real music , something they would love . |
| 49 | So long as the Crown maintains armed forces for the defence of the realm , it can not be in its interest that any part of them should be immobilised . |
| 50 | His zeal for the American design had even extended to the suggestion that a batch of them should be sold to the Shah of Iran . |
| 51 | I asked that all of them should be put in . |
| 52 | The audience and readership profiles of the various media will help to ermine which of them should be included on your list 1 which can be safely left out . |
| 53 | One of them should be chosen and be put rapidly into effect . |
| 54 | Undoubtedly each of these aims could be furthered by standing rules ; but their are probably other ways in which each of them could be achieved . |
| 55 | He chose to spend his moments of relaxation with his political cronies , though none of them could be said to have enjoyed his full confidence . |
| 56 | I do n't know if any of them could be bribed to poison the water . |
| 57 | POLICE are clamping down on Scarborough 's night clubs and it is likely that the licence of one of them could be threatened . |
| 58 | He also said there were 230 patients at Aycliffe Hospital who faced an uncertain future and some of them could be moved to the Memorial hospital . |
| 59 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 60 | But 90 per cent of them could be prevented actually if we had better working and environmental conditions or were n't so stressed and needed to smoke and drink to kill the pain of daily life . |