Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well by the time she 's finished this course she should be confident to hold on to things in the water , you know |
| 2 | These are both the kind of information you should be able to pick up at your local field , in exactly the same form . |
| 3 | She should be able to move in by the end of next week , and I 'll never be so happy as when I wave her goodbye at the front door . |
| 4 | The intention is to design equipment so that when the maintenance engineer then calls he , or she , should be able to read off from a display on the machine which circuit board has failed and then simply slip in a replacement . |
| 5 | People should be able to walk in off the street when the mood takes them . |
| 6 | Tomorrow we should be able to get over to the mainland . |
| 7 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
| 8 | He was delighted to find the house still a blaze of light ; that meant the part was still in full swing , which meant Gerard would be busy … and that meant that he should be able to creep in through the kitchen door . |
| 9 | Set up a lab like mine and run the same experiments , and anyone should be able to come up with the same results , for they do not depend on excessively mysterious skills or tricks , and science is after all , in the words of its most passionately admiring philosophers , public knowledge . |
| 10 | ‘ Given access to the data back at your office , I should be able to come up with a suitable package . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The Italian League season has a three-week break over Christmas and he should be able to come back after that . |
| 12 | Covering the genitals , as in the Genesis story , is by no means an invariable symbol of modesty and minimal bodily adornment ; and it would surely be very difficult to give an entirely rational explanation as to why it should be permissible to walk around in the nude on parts of Brighton beach but an offence against public decency to do so in Throgmorton Street . |
| 13 | It must be impossible to stand up against it , he wrote , impossible to draw breath before it . |
| 14 | ‘ We must be prepared to put up wi' a bit of discomfort , ’ Ernest said . |
| 15 | Must be twenty come in without and paying , and I 've let a few in for |
| 16 | Publishers must be able to reach out to the widest possible audience . |
| 17 | To be a good government officer you must be able to put up with these frustrations . |
| 18 | Above all , account people must be able to get on with everyone — colleagues as much as clients . |
| 19 | This aspect of the writing of reports has been exaggerated to impress on you that every report , even the least important , must be able to stand up to expert cross-examination . |
| 20 | A young wildebeest is able to run almost as soon as it is born , for it must be able to keep up with the other wildebeest when they flee a predator . |
| 21 | Thinking she was free of him and that it might be possible to keep out of harm 's way until Peter returned , she hurried up the steps into the hall . |
| 22 | be fit to go it might be nice to go down on Saturday morning come back , Sunday Monday . |
| 23 | It might be better to keep out of sight , but then there will be worse gossip . |
| 24 | They say Congress might be wiser to team up with Mr Shekhar and any other small party willing to join a conventional coalition government . |
| 25 | Nevertheless it is necessary to start somewhere and it might be useful to take off from those analyses . |
| 26 | If the receiver succeeds in his plans to sell the company as a going concern then most of them might be able to hang on to their positions . |
| 27 | thing is I do n't think I can but er I mean I might be able to pop in for about half an hour . |
| 28 | With any luck she might be able to get back to the apartment before he found out what had happened . |
| 29 | Erm is there anything else that you might be able to get out of him if you concede ? |
| 30 | Well you find out I might be able to find out to . |