Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another measure which the Tories may consider is increased influence over their own affairs for Scottish MPs through the committee structure at Westminster . |
| 2 | It should 've been first thing in morning if that would happen . |
| 3 | It must 've been fifteen foot at least up in the air teetering on a top branch . |
| 4 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 5 | There should have been major expenditure on affordable provision , this would be a major factor in getting people back to work . ’ |
| 6 | The bruises on her tender bottom should have been visual signs of her hatred of him . |
| 7 | You think I should have been living life to the full , then , and not mourning your brother ? ’ |
| 8 | At precisely what date he went is difficult to determine , for although Ibn Hajar states that he went to Egypt in 778/1376–7 , he follows this immediately with the statement whereas in fact Molla Fenari should have been twenty-seven years of age at that date according to the birthdate given by Ibn Hajar himself . |
| 9 | As an agency working in the field of community development , the past two years should have been optimistic ones for Falls Community Council , as new money pumped through BAT has been made available to us and the groups we work for and with . |
| 10 | There should have been either detriment to the plaintiff , or benefit to the defendant : 1 Selwyn 's N.P. 45 ( 9th ed . ) . |
| 11 | ‘ The next step should have been some form of close supervision . ’ |
| 12 | This and similar observations indicate that the polymer can occupy less volume when surrounded by benzene molecules and that there must have been unused space in the glassy matrix to allow this increase in packing efficiency to occur . |
| 13 | It must have been dull touring around Britain after Broadway but she knew of no alternative . |
| 14 | Held , allowing the appeal , the judge had referred to Cavendish ( 1961 ) 45 Cr.App.R. 374 in ruling that it was open to a jury to infer from all the circumstances that there must have been prior arrangement with the occupier for such a large quantity of burglary proceeds to arrive so quickly at the premises . |
| 15 | No drinks were served before dinner , so some form of ice-breaking equipment in the way of elaborate and festive flower decorations which everybody could remark upon must have been invaluable weapons in the hands of a conscientious hostess . |
| 16 | Clearly , Harald was a highly-efficient organiser of labour and materials : the felling and transportation of the large quantities of timber used in the camps and at Ravning , for example , must have been major operations in themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ It must have been one hell of a party . |
| 18 | This must have been one hell of a shock , and you 're overwrought , that 's all . |
| 19 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 20 | I can also acknowledge that there must have been many women like her , all over Glasgow ; that there were then in the early 1900s when she was marrying and becoming a mother ; that there were later . |
| 21 | There must have been many daughters like Margaret White , who described in the 1590s how she stayed on living with her widowed father , ‘ guided him and his household , and was continually with him in his sickness until his death ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ But there must have been other women during the past five years ? ’ she murmured anxiously . |
| 23 | Detectives say there must have been other people in the area around the time of this latest attack who could help their search . |
| 24 | There must have been twenty men on the back of the lorry in masks and carnival costumes . |
| 25 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 26 | well must have been different neighbours to my day ! |
| 27 | It is the singular most difficult shot in golf — he must have been 50 yards from the pin with a soft lie and he had all the trap to clear . |
| 28 | On we went , it must have been three hours by now . |
| 29 | It must have been those candles at the table . |
| 30 | Er , but that , there must have been enormous pressure on the scientist working in those great laboratories |