Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth point that the draftsman must cover is the possible abandonment of the index . |
| 2 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ If … the court 's inclination at the end of the day is to interfere with the £600,000 award of damages , then she , for her part — although she does not fear a retrial and again does not relish it - would be willing to accept whatever your lordships should decide is the right figure . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't think you 've heard the last of this matter , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ you wo n't get away with it , taking from me my home and my birthright , I should have been the eldest son , I am more worthy of the position . |
| 5 | It seemed to me that when the top men from the States came over , the first person to oppose them , to make a good confrontational meeting , should have been the European champion . |
| 6 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 7 | I think it should have been the other way round because I was black and blue from head to toe . |
| 8 | No , whoops , I might have put one on top of the other when it should have been the other way round , so always have this check , er does the answer look , I mean , no , you ca n't always tell , but sometimes you can , sometimes you can think well those two are about the same price per gram , are n't they ? |
| 9 | Ideally , she knew , Brian should have been the recipient of all this intellectual and spiritual outpouring , but he was not interested , and her therapist , who should have been the other option , merely picked all the meat off her perceptions and left her with a meaningless pile of bones . |
| 10 | A general strike brought Kosovo virtually to a standstill on Sept. 3 , and schools were also boycotted on what should have been the first day of a new school year . |
| 11 | He should have been the principal suspect . ’ |
| 12 | In the circumstances I should have been the good daughter , studious and uninterested in boyfriends . |
| 13 | ‘ It should have been the best holiday of our lives but it was terrible , ’ said Deborah , also 24 . |
| 14 | But surely state intervention should have been the best way of achieving both goals ? |
| 15 | It should have been the best day of my career but it turned into a nightmare . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He should have been the best horse I ever had , if only he 'd had decent health ! ’ from owner David Broome , this was quite some testimonial to the abilities of the brilliant grey show-jumper , Phoenix Park . |
| 17 | ‘ He was the worst leader of what should have been the best cause in the world . ’ |
| 18 | This was the winner against Chesterfield scored by Simon Brain after 12 minutes and this should have been the second goal . |
| 19 | HER first job should have been the greatest break in teenager Patricia Knox 's young life . |
| 20 | As usual , pace dominated the bowling , both in the Cup and in the A team series , and it was only fitting that Kenneth Benjamin should have been the latest addition to the Test attack . |
| 21 | What is remarkable is that the initiative here was taken by the High Anglican clergy , who should have been the natural allies of the Stuart monarchy , and who had staunchly defended James 's title to the throne during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 22 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
| 23 | The problem for the Labour Party , of course , was that playing this propaganda card was always likely to backfire since its natural constituency should have been the very groups it was attacking . |
| 24 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 25 | Volcanic effects have been even more sudden and disastrous , ranging from the explosion of the island of Krakatoa , between Java and Sumatra , in 1883 to the even more catastrophic eruption of Santorini ( or Thira ) in the Aegean about 1470 B.C. This eruption , or series of eruptions , which resulted in the huge collapsed caldera in the sea beside the present island , must have been the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by man and may well have been heard as far away as Britain . |
| 26 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |
| 27 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
| 28 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 29 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 30 | ‘ It must have been the tremendous strain he had been under worrying about Laura and trying to keep his job up . |