Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that should have been front page news — a well-written piece I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 2 | Finally he suggested that Mr Hancock must have been 180 degrees off-course . |
| 3 | ‘ That must have been old Mrs Rogers . |
| 4 | I was surprised to see that the recording venue was good old Abbey Road Studios : there is such a prominent background rumble that I had assumed it must have been some city church . |
| 5 | A reasonable defence might have been that field sports were preferable to roaming the docks but , instead , the chief rabbi was assured that the boys needed the exercise . |
| 6 | There might have been further questions Cranston would have liked to put . |
| 7 | Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills . |
| 8 | What might help are more guidebook writers concentrating on climbs below E1 ; and more of the policy occasionally adopted by the FRCC of sending graded route lists to distant climbing shops , cares and pubs so that all and sundry far away from the writing team can voice their opinions . |
| 9 | Some of the things I could see were some sheep droppings , a stone or two , my rucksack and an aluminium ring pull from someone 's can of juice . |
| 10 | it could have been three years time before that surfaced . |
| 11 | This event had already lost James Trotman , Sarah Kirby and Jasmine Choudbhury through injury — all players who could have been potential title winners . |
| 12 | It could have been any Yorkshire farmhouse kitchen , except that there was no sign of cooking , and no farmer sitting at the table . |
| 13 | That 's not to say there was n't child abuse now , I I have my own thoughts and in my own feelings feel that there could have been some child abuse especially ch sexual abuse . |
| 14 | We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire . |
| 15 | Two or three out of every ten who came to live in south London were north Londoners who had merely crossed the river , but of course they themselves may have been second generation immigrants to the capital . |
| 16 | During recent times , the main goal of many firms may have been long term survival . |
| 17 | The vendor may have been Pantell S.A. The vendor may have been Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a U.K. company , on whose behalf Pantell S.A. was , under an agreement dated 1 March 1988 , authorised to sell Euramco shares to the investing public on a commission basis . |
| 18 | For instance , in many experiments there may have been unintended selection pressure for rapid development and reproductive maturation in the control line flies with which the ‘ old ’ lines were compared , potentially leading to artefactual effects on early fertility . |
| 19 | There may have been some weather impact in the last two months , but basically , it looks like the major U S oil companies that were going overseas are still spending money on buying leases and building up infrastructure . |
| 20 | It may have been this group Professor Ashton had in mind when he drew attention to the way in which London banks played a role in making available the " savings of agriculturalists ' to provide " much of the investment in manufacture " . |
| 21 | The probable result , producing very good PR , would have been ten list seats for the Liberals , two constituency seats plus nine list seats for Labour , and 18 constituency seats plus one list seat for the Conservatives . |
| 22 | In 1980 , with interest rates as high as 20% and an 8% required reserve , the implicit cost of issuing a domestic CD would have been 174 basis points ( 20%/0.92=21.74% ) . |
| 23 | Well , all I would say is that youca nt really be too critical of players in what is only their second match . |
| 24 | From the outside , a passer-by will gaze up at the window , and all he will see is that lavender light . |
| 25 | Many of his cabinet members will have been nominal party people rather than loyal servants over many years , as would be the case in Britain . |
| 26 | It 's all dark and all I can see are these metal cages all round . |