Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , I do not believe that there should have been all this talk about a little bit of majority voting on foreign policy . |
| 2 | Robert Warshow was to argue quite rightly that there must have been much vicarious pleasure in the enjoyment of these films for audiences could watch gangsters break the law , use violence , take risks , and die but were free themselves to leave the theatre safely . |
| 3 | Among them must have been many new men pushing up from below . |
| 4 | Though the prestige of Aldfrith 's descent from the Uí Néill will not have been negligible , he was born out of wedlock and there must have been many legitimate sons of other Northumbrian lords who claimed descent from Ida . |
| 5 | Below the exemption line there must have been many small masters . |
| 6 | There must have been many different ways for brachiopods to exploit their simple mode of life . |
| 7 | To sustain carnivores , there must have been many more herbivores ; but the idea that two of each kind were created somewhere and slowly spread and multiplied would not go with real population dynamics . |
| 8 | There must have been many jealous eyes directed towards Russell who , owing to his association with the College of Arms , was able to attract a fair proportion of the up-market trade within London . |
| 9 | There were no longer any grave differences of principle between him and the king , but there must have been many routine tasks after so long an absence , and these seem to have occupied the greater part of 1107 . |
| 10 | On the contrary , there must have been many fervent followers of Jesus who conformed to a similar pattern — teetering on the brink of shattering disillusion , then finding a new justification in Paul . |
| 11 | They must have been such wonderful beings , and now even the legacy of their environment was being rewritten by the humans , changed with every curved floor covered by a flat grille , every piece of art ripped from the walls and studied out of context , every subtle nuance of space filled with metal and plastic , neural net cabinets , stores , machinery , even people . |
| 12 | Must have been all those flowers . |
| 13 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 14 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 15 | ‘ It must have been those honeyed cakes , ’ she added hurriedly , and gestured to the Empress . |
| 16 | That must have been some key phrase to establish identity . |
| 17 | Well I do n't know that must have been some clever fella to do it did n't he ? |
| 18 | There must have been some great stars and some ecstatic moments in those cosy halls but there must also have been many second- and third-rate performers , constant recourse to stereotypes , excessive repetition , and buckets of sentimentality . |
| 19 | Ah er the other item that we must mention is any extra plastic bags |
| 20 | ‘ Parliament has deprived the courts of any power of detention of a person of this age or what many people might think was any effective punishment for that grave crime . ’ |
| 21 | As a result , there might have been some minor publicity , but how right my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) was : people would have talked about there being no smoke without fire . |
| 22 | That is , there might have been some discernible difference in content between them . |
| 23 | She said carefully , ‘ There is , of course , another way of looking at it , if you can bear , for a moment , to push to one side the thought that there might have been any spiteful intent on my part . ’ |
| 24 | But if this motion is successful and a working party is established , one of the conclusions that we might reach is that General Secretaries should keep their sticky fingers off shops steward 's commissions . |
| 25 | On the other hand , what you 'll get is this continual lying going on about kidding everybody that everything 's better than it is and , of course , the eternal gratitude . |
| 26 | Actually , what you 'll find is that working mothers are extremely efficient because they have to be . ’ |
| 27 | Scots Wha Hae , which some may claim is another emotional dirge , has tremendous credentials ( tune going back to the 14th century and words by our national bard ) . |
| 28 | All he could see was that crude canvas painting being carried by two pages . |
| 29 | And when she went into the garden all she could see were some fading lupins and irises , not enough to fill one vase . |
| 30 | This could have been that one chance ’ . |