Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACCIDENT & General has confirmed that the rate it quoted for last week 's travel insurance table which appeared on page 23 of the Money-Go-Round section of the newspaper should have been £17.90 for a two-week holiday in Europe rather than £14.70 . |
| 2 | An unfortunate misprint in Hansard says that the value of the ships on order is £4.6 million whereas the correct answer should have been £4.6 billion . |
| 3 | It was made out for £2m from the Football Trust , but should have been £1m . |
| 4 | I mapped out our plans — the Palladium , the TV series — must have been £50,000 of work . |
| 5 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 6 | The maximum you should pay is 48p for a minute ; I 've checked it and I can place a concisely worded advert in about 45 seconds , and at cheap rate that works out at 27p . |
| 7 | The only thing they 'll understand are people out on the streets demonstrating . |
| 8 | And if the work had been put out to tender , savings to the council might have been £5m , the report found . |
| 9 | We might have been livestock that he was assessing for slaughter . |
| 10 | Other species which may occur are Alchemilla alpina and Salix herbacea . |
| 11 | I mean it was a very big operation , there could have been people alive in that plane , but er , as it happened , I , I think tragically they were both dead , but I mean , but people did n't know that . |
| 12 | Under Labour 's tax regime , he 'd have been £1.5 million worse off . |
| 13 | In 1990–91 the minimum benefit someone could receive was 50p , however from April 1991 benefit will be paid even if it is less than 50p a week . |
| 14 | ‘ We have been monitoring the downward trend over the last 10 years , and our impression is that the decline is beginning to bottom out : there may have been 5m fewer loans last year , but the drop was 15m in 1991–92 . |
| 15 | The council tax bill would have been £706 , making the bill £1,120 less under the council tax . |
| 16 | If it had been ‘ five ’ then it would have been rhd . |
| 17 | If it had not been for Elizabeth taking her in off the streets and giving her a home , then Tilly 's own life would have been empty . |
| 18 | Sommer and Zeger have estimated that if full compliance had been achieved in the Aceh study the reduction in mortality in months 4 to 12 would have been 72% rather than the 41% given by the intention to treat analysis . |
| 19 | Had the limit not been stated , the rent would have been unascertainable , and the stamp duty would have been £2 . |
| 20 | ‘ Today would have been sheep day in the old days , ’ the driver explained , as he hurried in to take over from his wife at the bar . |
| 21 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |
| 22 | In the year ended 30 June 1992 , the group pre-tax profit would have been £120,000 higher ( 1991 — £1.23m higher ) under the old basis . |
| 23 | If they had maintained the commitment of the last Labour Government — 5.5% of GNP — British education would have been £3.6 billion better off this year . |
| 24 | Under s 98 , the maximum penalty for the delay by this date would have been £4,560 . |
| 25 | The council tax would have been £588 , a reduction for his constituents of £549 . |
| 26 | Premiums would have been $10.8m lower |
| 27 | MITI estimates , using data from the Bank of Japan , that if Japan 's imports of services had been included in its trade statistics , then the trade surplus would have been $14 billion , $18 billion lower than reported . |
| 28 | The cost of the call via BT would have been £29.25 at the cheap rate after 8pm , BT confirmed . |
| 29 | It was agreed that during the next 12 years his earnings would have been £21,000 per annum , which would have given him £7,500 after tax . |
| 30 | Had the changes brought about by the 1980 Social Security Act not taken place , the maximum payment in 1981 would have been £19.25 . |