Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 2 | On a comparison of populations there should have been 4,500 houses built in Derry but only 3,000 had , in fact , been built . |
| 3 | He states however that the fuel was computed at that point and it was determined that there should have been 1,300 lbs remaining on arrival over Goose Bay , giving a reserve of twenty-five to twenty-seven minutes holding at 20,000 feet altitude . |
| 4 | There must have been 5,000 head corralled into convoy formation by a quartet of big black dogs . |
| 5 | We pass some strangely shaped mountains that must have been volcanic plugs poking up through vast panoramas . |
| 6 | For police warrants , normal methods of investigation must have been tried and failed and there must have been good reason to believe that interception would result in a conviction . |
| 7 | It must have been some force to knock the fences down . ’ |
| 8 | It must have been some challenge to oversee that . |
| 9 | Mr Moran resisted what must have been considerable temptation to rebuke Grobbelaar in a manner similar to Mr Souness 's outburst after the recent defeat at Sheffield United . |
| 10 | There must have been sufficient air trapped in the bag . |
| 11 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 12 | Secondly , he decided the case on the basis that the bank was innocent of any knowledge that there might have been undue influence exercised by the husband upon the wife . |
| 13 | Ironically , it might have been this shadow hanging over him which was responsible for his change in fortunes on the course . |
| 14 | Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vapouring . |
| 15 | Derek seems to remember that it was shortly after this change that a couple of what could have been nasty instances occurred . |
| 16 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 17 | United 's man of the match was keeper Paul Kee without him there could have been five goals flying into the Oxford net … |
| 18 | There could have been another car/coach/taxi coming the other way ! ’ |
| 19 | All he 'd say was that nature meant men and women to be attracted by each other and if they were n't , the species would n't reproduce themselves . ’ |
| 20 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 21 | There may have been personal antipathy involved , although Mancini 's account reads rather like an attempt to rationalize a hostility which he could not explain — as does More 's bland assertion that women commonly hate their husband 's best friends . |
| 22 | There may be a s there may have been some guests turn up |
| 23 | Robert Olivier suggests that the first tame elephants may have been orphaned calves reared as pets . |
| 24 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 25 | Well , they say that remarks that they would feel were friendly remarks directed towards students they stop themselves from saying and examine and think if I say that will I make her feel uncomfortable ? |
| 26 | It is a so it 's a complex set of interrelationships we 're looking at er on a sub-regional basis , I do believe that there is capacity , some capacity around the inner area of York , and to what extent the greenbelt enquiry er inspector will retain what I and others and certainly York City Council would believe is sufficient capacity remains to be seen , and though similar pleas were made at that enquiry I think they have to be restated here . |
| 27 | Normally there would have been two solicitors covering police stations at Stockton , Middlesbrough , Thornaby , South Bank , Redcar and Guisborough . |
| 28 | Mother General and Mother Clare were indeed right , it would have been preferential treatment to have financed Eve 's university education from the convent funds . |
| 29 | But John-William had bought so much land at Far Flatley from Colonel Covington-Pym , a whole bank of his river and several fields beyond that there would have been ample room to build Gemma and Tristan a dear little nest . |
| 30 | He would have been much surpris 'd to know my true Opinion on these matters , but I did not chuse to let him be so much familiar , I kept mum , and smiled and nodded as best I might , keeping my Thoughts to myself . |