Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb mod] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture of the Child of Prague looked down in all its red and gold splendour on the framed photograph of the late Superintendent Michael O'Neal who smiled widely on three little blonde heads who should have been in their beds . |
| 2 | Police have appealed for any witnesses who may have been in the area in the early hours of Saturday . |
| 3 | Police have appealed for witnesses who may have been in the area to come forward . |
| 4 | They picked up scores of children who should have been in class , and found that many stay away from school with their parents ' knowledge and consent . |
| 5 | Men who might have been behind the assassins . |
| 6 | There had also been personal prejudice against the three men who would have been on trial . |
| 7 | Yet here was her grandson fending for himself , leaning amiably against a kitchen cupboard and eating a self-made sandwich , while his mother gave infinite attention to food for women who should have been at home attending to their own children . |
| 8 | erm I 'm not someone who 's for , for example , erm positive discrimination where that means choosing a woman when there 's a better man erm and I think that erm although some feminists do , certainly it 's not a necessary condition of being a feminist , and I certainly do n't , and I think that if John Major erm sincerely looked at all the women who could have been in his cabinet , and sincerely judged their abilities erm compared to the men who were available , erm and decided that the women were n't ready , then I think that 's , that 's a possible position . |