Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should 've been first thing in morning if that would happen . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Detectives say there must have been other people in the area around the time of this latest attack who could help their search . |
| 7 | It was not a contest to excite the audience and there must have been some anxiety in Mason 's corner as it approached a critical stage . |
| 8 | There must have been some error in the Conservative Central Office word processor as it churned out yet another brief for the hon. Gentleman to repeat . |
| 9 | There must have been some magic in his fingers because they made her head tingle . |
| 10 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over . |
| 11 | Unless some merchants had withdrawn to the country , while continuing to manage their businesses there must have been significant investment in urban industry and commerce by the agricultural sector to maintain the balance between town and country in West Sussex . |
| 12 | Winter freezing closed the Trent and Mersey Canal for five weeks in 1814 – 15 , and Freeman has calculated that on the canals of the Lancashire plain there must have been twenty-day stoppages in thirty of the winters between 1771 and 1831 and thirty-day stoppages in ten of those . |
| 13 | Hollywood was just beginning to realize that the old phenomenon of stars might have an added significance in a period of depression and there must have been considerable delight in the studios at the alacrity with which the critics took up the subject of Cagney . |
| 14 | Another one that you might consider is joint tenancy in common . |
| 15 | If the increase in child benefit had been a real increase , there might have been some logic in that . |
| 16 | The plaintiff might be an author who is prevented by his injuries from writing or completing a book or there might have been high unemployment in the area and large redundancies in the company that had employed the plaintiff . |
| 17 | He says that the most they 'll get is 5 pence in the pound . |
| 18 | The systematic study of a non-standard system , however , supports the argument that there could have been orderly variation in EModE involving merger and reversal patterns of /a/ and /Ε/; ( or /α/); in certain consonantal environments , and suggests that the usual account of the history of /a/ ( fronting to [ ae ] and subsequent split into two RP phonemes ) is oversimplified . |
| 19 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 20 | The existence of this school suggests that there could have been other halls in the town , but there is no definite evidence . |
| 21 | If , as suggested above , he faced considerable initial hostility , and presided over a government which some churchmen found oppressive , religion could have been one way in which opposition was expressed . |
| 22 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 23 | For example , there may have been little point in devising an ‘ inner area ’ and allocating resources to it . |
| 24 | Both the Marxist and the Eliasian approaches , on the other hand , although implying that there may have been great changes in sexual behaviour , fall short of actually saying so . |
| 25 | This may have been one way in which a girl could emulate the " lad o' pairts " and improve herself through education . |
| 26 | That may have been one factor in causing her subsequently to bring up the children in the Jewish faith . |
| 27 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 28 | Other documents imply the existence of lay archives , and this is hardly surprising in a world in which there may have been considerable literacy in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 29 | Since the Wilson Committee reported there may have been some improvement in the availability of bank finance for small businesses . |
| 30 | And in 1972 the matching shoulder blades , vertebrae and pelvis of a sauropod even bigger than Brachiosaurus was dragged from the clay in Colorado : the largest vertebra was about 1.5 metres long , suggesting the animal was more than 16 metres tall , weighing over 80 tons and may have been 3 metres in length . |