Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other points that the intervention must stress are consistency and determination . |
| 2 | Er , I think really it must 've been thrift . |
| 3 | Said Barrow : ‘ What we must do is take confidence from those results . |
| 4 | What she must do was concentrate on getting her memory back so that she could get home to them as soon as humanly possible . |
| 5 | But , with the prospect of a GATT trade deal already clouded by Mr Clinton 's dithering , the last thing he should do is damage world economic relations further by failing to prevent an international tax war . |
| 6 | An arm came loose and fell off , revealing scrunched up newsprint where there should have been ligament , bone and muscle . |
| 7 | It is sad that Orwell should have been bedridden and dying when he met Waugh , for the first and last time . |
| 8 | In theory the task should have been simplicity itself . |
| 9 | Her last purchase should have been bread — she picked a flat circular loaf rather than a baguette — but she succumbed to temptation and bought one of the plastic containers of the local vin ordinaire , amazingly cheap and good for its price , and several bottles of water too . |
| 10 | The correct reference should have been reference 3 . |
| 11 | Pushing the wheelbarrow should have been child 's play , but I still could not get the hang of it . |
| 12 | The very idea of working from home should have been anathema to me . |
| 13 | Penny McAllister 's parents welcomed the decision but insisted the verdict should have been murder and the sentence life . |
| 14 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 15 | Ultimately , he dashed out of bed and caught a cab to the theatre — where he arrived thirty minutes after what should have been curtain time , to see his erstwhile audience walking away , dejected looks on most of the faces . |
| 16 | This observation , made by the village case study in 1984 , should have been cause for concern , since four years previously it had been demonstrated that the village practitioners in Bangladesh were willing and capable of being trained in the use and administration of oral rehydration solutions . |
| 17 | Fight as they did to keep the canoe on course they were driven westward of Castiglione ( near Sidi Ferruch ) when they should have been east of this port . |
| 18 | That was the last , , I should have been market trader , been shouting out that voice and |
| 19 | The improved neutron detector was finally ready ‘ later in the year ’ and ‘ within a few weeks ’ the results were positive enough that they formed the basis of the paper that was sent for publication on 23 March 1989 , the paper that should have been sibling to that of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 20 | Part of the problem must have been competition between northern and southern universities , ’ says Irvine . |
| 21 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 22 | It must have been reference for Jenny to be |
| 23 | Sometimes it may seem obvious that there must have been negligence , as in the case of the purchaser of a bath bun who found a stone in the middle of it ( Chaproniere v. Mason ( 1905 C.A. ) ) . |
| 24 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 26 | Superficially the safe solution is to assume that nil and £1 assessments indicate journeymen and apprentices , while from about £5 most must have been master craftsmen . |
| 27 | that they did n't enjoy it and therefore it must have been rape cos they did n't wa they did n't like it . |
| 28 | For my mother , who remembered seeing her only brother , also called Robert , off to France in the First World War , never to see him again , this farewell on the platform must have been agony . |
| 29 | ‘ It must have been agony having all those things ! ’ |
| 30 | This must have been part of a Roman cemetery as again in 1926 near this spot workmen digging on the edge of Lee 's Great Quarry ( Houlder Quarry ) , 20 yards from Clements Farm found a quantity of human bones and pottery . |