Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It must have been some force to knock the fences down . ’ |
| 3 | It must have been some challenge to oversee that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 9 | If Philippe knew of — or even suspected — the existence of this story , this would have been adequate reason to abolish a powerful movement whose knowledge of it could give the descendants of the Merovingians excuse to usurp the throne , claiming direct lineage from Christ . |
| 10 | Now , if she had gone to lunch with Dorothea Shottery after all , there would have been three people to talk to . |
| 11 | Another , similar , was on a house which stood where the Institute ( now a shop ) stands , and many of the nooks and crannies of the wandering streets would have been tempting places to sit out and spin in summer weather . |