Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these areas may become blurred , he feels : for example , one feature of complementary medicine that patients may prefer is simply the longer consultations that its practitioners tend to give . |
| 2 | Changes in sexual regulation we may hypothesise were more a product of changing patterns of class power and alliances , various , and changing forms of pressure , and shifting perceptions of the moral needs of classes and masses rather than the result of any firm , moralizing policy . |
| 3 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 4 | You should 've been here yesterday fore . |
| 5 | Should 've been here yesterday forenoon ! , |
| 6 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 7 | must 've been already off though |
| 8 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 9 | He must 've been dead eighteen years . |
| 10 | And when I came back , Bobby I gave Grant they and erm he must 've been pretty desperate because he did a wee wee before we left and he did a wee wee before |
| 11 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 12 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 13 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 14 | It was and yet , I 'm losing my thread with , what I was going to say was , it must 've been so important because an in that you could get anything you liked . |
| 15 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 16 | so they must 've been fairly sure of their support to allow them to come into an area of villages . |
| 17 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 18 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 19 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 20 | They can , what you should do is just drop the ladder in out , in the inside that 's all . |
| 21 | ‘ What you should do is simply stand on your feet and make sure you do n't commit yourself . |
| 22 | Just as a gentleman was defined by his likeness to other gentlemen , so a house should resemble other houses of a similar standing ; it would therefore be redundant to describe what every courteous author must assume was already known to his readers . |
| 23 | And these you should remember are basically the terms I gave on the previous page . |
| 24 | Vagueness was resorted to by the judge in Jenkins v Reid in order to explain why a reformulation of a clause was unacceptable and in Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 1366 Dankwerts LJ criticised the phrase " districts in which the traveller had operated " as being too vague especially as instructions given as to where he should work were purely oral . |
| 25 | The rate of capillary movement in very fine pores is , however , so slow that the theoretical equilibrium height over which capillary rise should occur is rarely attained in such cases . |
| 26 | Although a therapist should avoid being too directive , as this is likely to encourage dependency and may discourage a patient from developing his coping skills , it is quite often appropriate to offer advice . |
| 27 | Therefore , the choice the Labour Party must face is either to transform its structure into a membership party of an equal democratic form , separate from ( but maintaining informal association with ) the trades unions , or to be stifled by its history , losing what may be the last opportunity to become a party of regeneration and progress . |
| 28 | The profession should stop being so defensive , he told participants at the Scottish Institute 's annual conference in St Andrews last month . |
| 29 | ‘ To win the next General Election , we must stop being so darned nice . ’ |
| 30 | But at the same time we must preserve the rights of the voluntary carers , and any guidelines must avoid being too prescriptive ’ , she says . |