Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 But the last word on Czechoslovak politics should be Ladislav 's : ‘ The Czechs want freedom as a child wants a balloon .
2 It was inevitable that the Earl should be Lord Lieutenant of the County , and that he should be President of the Lancashire Unionists .
3 There was neither joy nor peace in the house and she found herself wishing the time away until it should be March .
4 It 's a matter of having that faith , that should be Jehovah in Romans chapter ten , verse thirteen , it 's a matter of working out to , for logic of the original verse which it came from , cos that 's been quoted has n't it ?
5 ‘ I suspect , ’ she said , shifting a little to recover firmer standing , ‘ that should be Professor Hambro ?
6 DID Bill & Ted ‘ s Excellent Adventure make you laugh enough to be Comedy Video or do you think it should be Blackadder 's Christmas Carol ?
7 And anyway , the bottom line should be Cottee is unquestionably a better footballer than Stewart .
8 After Bosnia , the next stop for Lord Owen and Cyrus Vance should be Pretoria .
9 This should be England 's natural advantage when playing at home , a balance to alien conditions met on tour .
10 I accept he believes he should be England 's fly-half .
11 ‘ I am very happy with the way I am playing but I accept that he believes he should be England 's fly-half .
12 That it should be Hampshire 's good fortune to see this show first was due to good friends of the Horseshoe Theatre Company who had heard there was such a musical and the linkage with the Horseshoe 's artistic director , Adrian Reynolds was made .
13 Woking expect 4,000 fans to travel to what should be Brighton 's biggest gate of the season .
14 The relative beneficiary should be IBM 's mid-range but growing AS/400 business and to a lesser extent the RS/6000 .
15 The brackets should be MVC 1010/1 which are the shoulder anchorage brackets ; 347884 ( 2 off ) which are the wheel arch anchorage brackets and 348765 which are the anchor point tubes for the middle of the vehicle .
16 I reckon it should be Ossie Ardilles
17 The rescue should be Japan 's second-largest ever .
18 If anyone is to go it should be Whyte and Fairclough , the two defenders who contributed so much to Leeds downfall in 1992–3 .
19 In my view , the provision of adequate fire prevention and fire fighting measures should be Venice 's top priority .
20 And if that person should be Bella … ?
21 Whatever it was , he knew he would receive the truth now , however unpleasant , and was aware of nothing but thankfulness that it should be Abul Ismail here to tell him .
22 It should be Bowe 's last defence until November when he is expected to fight Evander Holyfield in a rematch .
23 That was Annie Lennox You should be Prince Charles
24 One of the biggest films of the coming year should be Dracula — and if you can hang on to your book token for a few weeks , it will be worth your while waiting for the publication of Bram Stoker 's Dracula — The Film And The Legend ( Pan , £7.99 ) .
25 There was a vicious irony that it should be Brian , who always confronted the guards when they treated him subhumanly , who was now being abused like a dumb animal .
26 What do you think next step should be Neil ?
27 First , the selection criterion should be NPV and not some arbitrary and very short payback period .
28 My hon. Friend the Member for Taunton talked about the difficulties in the south-west and whether Taunton should become the capital or whether it should be Bristol , Plymouth or Exeter .
29 The last one was Torquay ; the next one hopefully should be Halifax .
30 Italy , he jokes , should be Hungary 's model .
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