Example sentences of "it [modal v] be nice " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the sponge part has worn down ( it should be nice and springy and approximately one centimetre deep all the way along ) , or if the foam has worn away from the metal piece holding it , you need a new one . |
| 2 | We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer . |
| 3 | It should be nice and fruity . |
| 4 | It 's wet , it should be nice and warm . |
| 5 | and that 's where it should be nice made a change did n't they ? |
| 6 | It must be nice to get letters and that . |
| 7 | It 's sad , going away , but it must be nice all the same to have someone kiss you at the railway station . |
| 8 | ‘ It must be nice living here , ’ I said , changing the subject , ‘ but how d' you go on for shopping ? ’ |
| 9 | Leslie , however , could go one better : ‘ It must be nice , ’ he replied , in a piece of monumental understatement , contained in a letter written during a lull in the fighting at Wadi Akarit , ‘ to ramble round the Pilgrim Way . |
| 10 | ‘ It must be nice to have pictures of your family going back for years . |
| 11 | When you 're fighting and hating each other anyway , it must be nice for the chick when she turns out to have the law batting for her . |
| 12 | While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up . |
| 13 | Nick said , ‘ It must be nice to be so young that when you 're tired it only makes you look prettier . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It must be nice to be wanted . |
| 15 | It must be nice to have an uncomplicated relationship . |
| 16 | Having ended the last sequence with a wide shot , it might be nice to begin this the same way to show Cook at work . |
| 17 | She thought that it might be nice for Mother to be involved in the shop , but obviously they were n't going to listen to her . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps because I 've always thought it might be nice to have a honeymoon in Venice . ’ |
| 19 | He is a retired reverend , and I thought that , as he had made the effort , it might be nice to ask him to say a prayer to round off the proceedings . |
| 20 | The conventional image , still current in some quarters , of the rehoused poor ‘ putting coal in the bath ’ is very sour in St Ann 's , because for all too many people it might be nice to have the option of putting the coal they ca n't afford in the baths they have n't got . |
| 21 | water and what it does , it might be nice to just look at that to finish it off , so that if |
| 22 | Er it might be nice if someone was to er obtain something . |
| 23 | It might be nice , might n't it , to get back home and resume her quiet ordinary life ? |
| 24 | I thought it might be nice to — ’ ‘ What do you want — my bloody autograph ? |
| 25 | It might be nice to have a few of us go along , and I will drop a few subtle hints so a meeting with the players or at least a trip round the ground and watching a training session is on the cards : - ) |
| 26 | It might be nice to have a few of us go along , and I will drop a few subtle hints so a meeting with the players or at least a trip round the ground and watching a training session is on the cards : - ) |
| 27 | Well since there is a return unopposed , it might be nice if we can have a unanimous endorsement of that . |
| 28 | he was talking about spending a weekend with us anyway so it might be nice thing to do . |
| 29 | ‘ I have done so much with Middlesbrough that at times I think it might be nice to go elsewhere and start afresh . |
| 30 | It says the erm , this low is go is moving away and a high 's coming in so it might be nice for this weekend . |