Example sentences of "[modal v] be about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally this card should be about 60mm × 13mm if the viewing distance is 1 metre , and scaled for other distances . |
| 2 | The distance from bottle to anchor should be about 1ft deeper than the depth of water . |
| 3 | Beans should be about 6in apart and 2in deep , and benefit from being sown in blocks . |
| 4 | These bolts should be about 7.5cm ( 3in ) long so that you can fit several layers of blotting paper , newspaper and flowers into the press . |
| 5 | Spacing should be about 23cm ( 9in ) , and it needs plenty of sun and well-drained but fertile soil . |
| 6 | Cutting should be about 9in long , cut just below a leaf joint at the bottom , and just above a leaf joint at the top . |
| 7 | It should be about 5mm ( ¼inch ) thick . |
| 8 | It should be about 5cm ( 2inches ) square and 2·5cm ( 1inch ) deep . |
| 9 | These holes should be about 5cm ( 2inches ) square in area and 2·5cm ( linch ) deep . |
| 10 | The head must be substantial enough not to bend easily and should be about 30cm wide . |
| 11 | Trim one edge neatly with a knife so that it is straight — the straight edge should be about 30cm ( 12inches ) long . |
| 12 | If fences are made of plain wire , the lowermost strand should be about 14in ( 35cm ) from the ground . |
| 13 | In 1981 the BWB chairman , Sir Frank Price said : ‘ The Fraenkel figure for the backlog of maintenance at today 's prices must be about £100 million . |
| 14 | The trench must be about 500mm wide with 100mm added to the depth for any bedding material which the Building Control Officer may insist on . |
| 15 | Some formula such as 50 per cent of the current local room rate ( given the place and period this might be about £30 ) might be acceptable . |
| 16 | One possible definition of I 1 is the initial margin payment , which might be about 4% of the price of the future ( Bear , 1972 ; Brooks and Hand , 1988 ; Francis , 1991 ; Gressis , Vlahos and Philippatos , 1984 ; Levy , 1987 ; Niederhoffer and Zeckhauser , 1980 ; Panton and Joy , 1978 ; Robichek , Cohn and Pringle , 1972 ; Schrock , 1971 ; Turner , Houston and Shepherd , 1992 ; Yau , Savanayana and Schneeweis , 1990 ) , while Lukac , Brorsen and Irwin ( 1988a ; 1988b ) and Marshall and Herbst ( 1992 ) defined the investment as the initial margin plus the funds set aside to cover subsequent margin payments . |
| 17 | Well erm if , if our Carl 's coming straight home it 'll be about quarter to seven . |
| 18 | at Stainforth and then that 'll be about quarter past eight |
| 19 | Oh that 'd be about quarter nine . |
| 20 | Allowing for this element means that the average income from farming per full-time equivalent may be about £9,000 per annum . |
| 21 | If not it may be about time to offer a vote of confidence and see him on his way the week after . |
| 22 | When we considered the impact that such a system would have on my city of Leeds , when it was thought that it would be about £187 per head , we realised that that in itself would be disastrous . |
| 23 | There were no street prices available at the time of going to press , but my guess would be about £270 . |
| 24 | A rough estimate of his total annual income would be about £30 , the sort of sum which curates received and complained of . |
| 25 | With vessels costing a total of about 13s. 8d. a quintal to produce , the costs would be about £4 : 8s. : 8d. but then sell at £4 : 13s. : 4d. ; a small profit indeed . |
| 26 | In his annual report , he states that the cost of immunising these children and providing the medicines necessary to treat the dehydration and pneumonia would be about $2.5 billion . |
| 27 | To start small , a Cobol Cobol application development environment with compiler , development and debugging tools would be about $15,000 , and can grow to include a repository . |
| 28 | After deductions for loans from the subsidiary to Cabra , and for the stake in the Fulham ground , the net cost to Chelsea would be about £10m . |
| 29 | The Secretary of State will undoubtedly be aware that Mr. Malcolm Edwards told the Select Committee on Energy last week that the cost of gas for generation of electricity would be about 2.7p per kilowatt hour compared with 2.2p for coal . |
| 30 | It is hard to imagine Greeks letting basic decisions about their future be taken by a European parliament that would be about 97% non-Greek . |