Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such problems of internal management as may arise are likely to come from unfamiliarity on the part of individual teachers with the changing requirements of examinations and assessment . |
| 2 | It was this room may think is sparse but is almost over furnished by medieval standards . |
| 3 | This last objection can be put in a form applicable to many of the theories discussed in this book : that it may be a mistake to try to define the essential features of literature in absolute and objective terms ; that such definitions as one may devise are likely to be relevant only to certain kinds or certain features of literature , or merely constitute one among a number of possible ways of approaching the subject . |
| 4 | The regulations which a licensing board may make are concerned with procedure only . |
| 5 | As a matter of common law , if the purchaser receives information relating to the vendor 's business which he knows or ought to know is confidential , the purchaser is under a duty to maintain the confidence and not to use the information . |
| 6 | Another measure which the Tories may consider is increased influence over their own affairs for Scottish MPs through the committee structure at Westminster . |
| 7 | Where such consent is knowingly given by adult citizens , the only restrictions which a free society ought to impose are those designed for the prevention of harm . |
| 8 | Tommy , that again should 've been blue . |
| 9 | It should 've been first thing in morning if that would happen . |
| 10 | That should 've been automatic , ni November ninety three . |
| 11 | Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start ! |
| 12 | It 's my fault really , cos the window should 've been open . |
| 13 | It must 've been fifteen foot at least up in the air teetering on a top branch . |
| 14 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 15 | Christ , he must 've been good . ’ |
| 16 | now there , there must 've been one reason why you chose Friends Provident . |
| 17 | Must 've been four then was n't it ? |
| 18 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 19 | must 've been frightened , cos he 's never had |
| 20 | ‘ You must 've been surprised when I answered the door . ’ |
| 21 | morning , but it must 've been alright because er he was going off with David , I said you got tablets for him and she said yeah plenty of stuff for him , anyway , he seemed , he looked alright anyhow |
| 22 | ‘ You must 've been crazy ! ’ she told herself . |
| 23 | I mean my application essentially I should think was one of the simplest |
| 24 | in Brazil the archbishop now in his late eighties I should think was renowned everywhere said that there 's a quote here from him on the Traidcraft leaflet . |
| 25 | The right hon. Gentleman follows such matters closely and he will be aware that the typical price of the major works that the national gallery must buy is several millions . |
| 26 | What we should consider are all the alternative ways that a fruit fly can inherit individual switch settings . |
| 27 | " What you must do is this : go back to the king and ask for three hundred barrels of wine and three hundred barrels of brandy . |
| 28 | Well my understanding of team briefings , very quickly , is is to give you an example , after C S M T , what we should do is one of us should actually write down the key points from C S M T that you want to communicate to staff . |
| 29 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 30 | So an example of words we should use are this example and there 's a handout to write , to recite , to identify , to differentiate , to solve , to construct , to list , to compare , to controls . |