Example sentences of "[modal v] [det] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We feel that boys , including ourselves , are able to dance as well as anyone , may that be male or female . |
| 2 | We feel that boys , including ourselves , are able to dance as well as anyone , may that be male or female . |
| 3 | It is not enough to say what a course is about ; physicists and engineers , biologists and doctors , economists and managers may each be concerned with the same phenomena but for different reasons and in different ways . |
| 4 | Specialist services for children ( cardiac , neurosciences , nephrology , oncology , and plastics ) should each be available in 2 centres ( perhaps 3 for neurosciences ) . |
| 5 | An English observer much involved in these problems complained of Russian diplomats in 1673 that " it is their Custome , to think , whatsoever they get , too little , and whatever they give , too much " , while in 1698 an embassy sent by the Emperor Leopold I to Moscow argued that in future , to avoid such disagreements , the tsar and the Holy Roman Emperor should each be responsible for the maintenance of their own embassies in the way now generally accepted in Europe . |
| 6 | Well , the ducking and diving award this week must surely go the Chancellor , Norman Lamont ; before the Treasury Committee he fielded a battery of awkward questions about the recovery , or should that be alleged recovery . |
| 7 | And something that happens to us at least five days in every month — that affects , amongst other things , our sexual feelings , and our body size and shape — why should that be unimportant ? |
| 8 | It deals with the necessary conveyancing following the making of a court order or agreement between the parties relating to the matrimonial home and with the disentangling of life policies should that be necessary . |
| 9 | Or should that be double chins ? |
| 10 | Except , of course , that the Mistress of All She Perv-eys is an arch media manipulator ( witness the airbrushed photos — an erotic , or should that be Sex-y , product plug , yah ? ) . |
| 11 | Horses are usually pretty easy going creatures who grow fond of people and attention : why then should some be anxious ? |
| 12 | The Minister for Information and Tourism , Hasnu Makame , said that there was a need for a provision in the law for the president to ban a newspaper should this be necessary . |
| 13 | Site should be chosen carefully , as it is difficult to get all the deeply penetrating root out , should this be necessary , and any left will produce fresh plants . |
| 14 | The position of the traverses should be noted as this enables the counting of additional points , should this be necessary ; it also enables checking of the original data . |
| 15 | We have said that nationalized industries should price at social marginal cost , but should this be short-run marginal cost ( SMC ) or long-run marginal cost ( LMC ) ? |
| 16 | Nor should this be confused with evidence ( see Chapter 5 ) that the left hemisphere has a special role to play in the organisation of sequential motor behaviour . |
| 17 | Why should this be different ? ’ |
| 18 | We believe that if we could liberate this wealth of talent we would transform our economy and create a shared society of which we should all be proud . |
| 19 | That ZNF25 , ZNF11A and ZNF33A sequences should all be present in four independently isolated YACs is strong evidence for linkage . |
| 20 | The transformation from hard to soft back in no way dilutes the presentation of the writings in order to attract a different type of reader , rather it makes available to a wider audience , a collection of historical character studies at a more attractive price , something that , in this day and age , we should all be grateful for . |
| 21 | We should all be grateful that these monuments exist today as a guide and a help to biographical research . |
| 22 | Mrs F thought it should all be intimate . |
| 23 | The information required to complete the ‘ book ’ should all be available from the ward resources . |
| 24 | The development of self-presentation , self-advocacy and of self-directed learning should all be central features of this phase of education . |
| 25 | We British do indeed believe we should all be equal under the law , but in practice we reject social engineering which tries to make us equal in other respects . |
| 26 | Certally , she would make an authoritive statement on behalf of the gummunt , though it would not be in monosybils , for which we should all be grayful . |
| 27 | And unfortunately , unscrupulous landlords that are actually benefiting from this , and in a lot of cases , it 's not , people , people are n't paying , necessarily paying this rent out of their wages , it 's actually the poll tax payer who is paying these rents , er through housing benefit , and I think we should all be aware of the way in which we collectively are being ripped off |
| 28 | Write and tell the editors if you remember the halt being used — we should all be interested to hear about it . |
| 29 | They should all be constant . |
| 30 | And we should all be able to forgive other people because , while we have the right to react to their words or actions in the short-term , not being perfect ourselves , we have no right to judge them in the long-term . |