Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have liked to be able to look forward to seeing him , but he said he did n't know how the evening would turn out . ’ |
| 2 | Certainly , by now , we should have learned to be cautious about simplified statements which attempt to outline the central features of ‘ the family in modern society ’ . |
| 3 | You 'll have to learn to be grateful just to bear my name … |
| 4 | ‘ You might have wanted to be alone . ’ |
| 5 | It would have been handled , she knew , with all the caution that the dust from the moon had been , since it might have proven to be toxic as any of the man-made monstrosities aboard Titron . |
| 6 | A male without testes would live longer than a , than a male with them , undoubtedly , on average five to seven years longer , and erm generally be more healthy in terms of avoiding a lot of problems that , that they might have had through being male . |
| 7 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 8 | Laboratory tests have shown that the rates of oxygen uptake and amounts of muscle effort that volunteers could develop tend to be greater in the daytime than at the night . |
| 9 | Some visitors may have proved to be undesirable or objectionable , or perhaps have left without paying their bill , and therefore it is essential that this type of guest be blacklisted for future reference . |
| 10 | Personally , I wished Bellamy would quit trying to be reasonable and concentrate on the wrestling . |
| 11 | She would have liked to be nearer to the panel , but she doubted her ability to kneel or squat in the spacesuit . |
| 12 | Comrade Andrew said he would have liked to be present , only he would be away . |
| 13 | When Merry blows it in the Shire the revolution against sloth and shabbiness and Saruman- ‘ Sharkey ’ is on : no doubt Tolkien would have liked to be able in his own person to do the same . |
| 14 | He would have liked to be able to confront and examine his own previous self . |
| 15 | Like a Shakespearian monarch he would have liked to be able to send the guilty ones straight to the scaffold , to be despatched on a block still steaming with the blood of the last condemned prisoner . |
| 16 | They were beautiful , and she would have loved to be able to buy one , but even the simplest was far beyond her pocket . |
| 17 | Each team 's goal is to determine what it would have to do to be first class and then to handle things its own way . |
| 18 | But Charlotte would have needed to be alone with him , decks cleared of their differences , for certainty on the point . |
| 19 | He still wanted her body , there was no way he could disguise that , and she , well , she would have to learn to be content with whatever crumbs he was prepared to let fall from his table . |
| 20 | However , many of the 1.3 million recipients who would have ceased to be eligible for supplementary benefit were receiving what is called certificated housing benefit . |
| 21 | You would have had to be superhuman not to be a little corrupted by the power she had . |
| 22 | Jules had told her she was attractive , Félix found her so , and she would have had to be blind not to see the admiring glances of strangers when she went to a café or on a promenade with Jules . |
| 23 | She would have had to be blind not to see the mixture of desire and destruction in the getsure . |
| 24 | The court held that for the application of the rule to have been lawful it would have had to be justifiable irrespective of race or ethnic or national origins . |
| 25 | Without an infusion of funds from the DHSS ( now DSS ) , fewer private homes would have been established and many more would have proved to be unprofitable . |
| 26 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 27 | I would have thought to be honest , I would have thought you do n't need any of that area |
| 28 | It is often argued that if a child learned how to recode unfamiliar letter strings — printed words not previously encountered — into a phonological form , this would permit reading to be parasitic on an already established ability to access the semantics of a word from its phonology . |
| 29 | R : Our initial fear that the Clause would spread proved to be unfounded . |
| 30 | THIS five-year-old mare will go hurdling after being unbeaten in two bumpers last season . |