Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What should have been three comfy nights in a five-star hotel with en-suite jacuzzis turns into a full-blooded , mud-covered fight for survival . |
| 2 | Today there must have been fifteen hundred people here . |
| 3 | There must have been five hundred varieties . |
| 4 | ‘ Then it must have been two other people that have been kissing on our front porch for the last nine months . |
| 5 | After that , all we 'll need is one definite alarm and we can follow him wherever he goes . ’ |
| 6 | In 1979 , the maximum a Chief Inspector could earn was 8 000 pounds . |
| 7 | That 's allowed , the maximum that we could do is two hundred interviews an hour |
| 8 | BRM was in decline , the best Niki could do was one fifth place in Zolder . |
| 9 | All I could feel were five soft muzzles have a friendly sniff . |
| 10 | He could have been seven hundred miles away , his hand holding the side curtain open a little and staring out at the darkness . |
| 11 | Yeah , well you should of done that five hands ago and then you 'd have been seventy five pence down ! |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't you see , there could 'ave been five 'undred quid in fifty-quid notes in that letter , which was why he was spittin' blue murder . ’ |
| 13 | The development of the double helix structure of DNA may have been one such improvement in the early stages . |
| 14 | ‘ It was only much later , when it was too late to change anything , that I glimpsed the possibility that this may have been one small way in which I had a slight advantage over Gittel . |
| 15 | Norman Rockwell would have been one hundred years old next year . |
| 16 | Two had died in infancy , otherwise there would have been nine little mouths to feed . |
| 17 | Fifteen hundred pound if he was prepared to put a deposit down or something that would have been fifteen hundred quid . |
| 18 | Mrs Burke , who would have been 100 next month , was found dying from head injuries in her bed on Monday . |
| 19 | Buddy would have been 56 this year and no doubt raving on even now had it not been for that fateful February in 1959 … the day the music died . |
| 20 | Because she , it would have been twenty four hours . |
| 21 | Grant Mann would have been 31 last Friday . |
| 22 | Twenty-five years after everyone else , I am now discovering the joys of Hey Joe , Voodoo Chile and Purple Haze courtesy of The Ultimate Collection ( Polydor ) which contains 20 great songs from Hendrix who would have been 50 this month . |
| 23 | What the keen fishkeeper wants for Christmas , what they get — and what you can afford are three different things . |