Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that Scottish-sourced network TV accounted for just 1.5 per cent of the national output and 0.8 per cent of the radio programming suggested to the task force it seems , that there should have been more money available for commissioning north of the border . |
| 2 | The wave must have been fifteen feet high . |
| 3 | It must have been two month old . |
| 4 | There must have been other factors present to account for the size of deposits created by the credit multiplier effect described earlier . |
| 5 | There was a heel-bone , in particular , which Dr Macleod said was such , that if the foot was in proportion , it must have been twenty-seven inches long . |
| 6 | Director of Studies : ‘ The load they should accept is 5 hours minimum per subject — in some 10 hours . |
| 7 | Today , young Christer as you 'd expect was 10 ft tall . |
| 8 | In a flash a sniper , who could have been any gun happy soul anywhere , had killed . |
| 9 | Built of stone rubble faced with ashlar ( stone dressed to a smooth finish ) and Roman tiles , the original polygonal tower may have been 80 feet high , but it had fallen into ruin by medieval times and was partly rebuilt , probably in the reign of Henry V. It still stands to a height of 40 feet , however , and we can see the original windows which were tiny on the outside walls to prevent draughts interfering with the flames of the beacon at the top . |
| 10 | It may have been seven years late and a billion dollars over budget , but the Hubble space telescope was lifting out of the shuttle cargo bay and on its way to orbit at last , ready to look back across the universe to the very beginnings of time . |
| 11 | Although most of the ‘ Lees ’ were probably Flanellys or Murphies , there may have been some Romanies present . |
| 12 | I would have been 3.5 ft tall . |
| 13 | ‘ My beloved husband died after a lingering illness on 29th April at 18 minutes past 4 o'clock in the morning … if he would have lived to the 25th August , he would have been 63 years old . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Our daughter would have been 29 years old when this person will be walking the streets again , ’ said 51-year-old Norman Squire at his home in Arundel , West Sussex . |
| 15 | It would be hard to find an artist more suited to the political needs of museum exhibitions in the early 1990s than Wifredo Lam , who would have been ninety years old this year . |