Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What we should consider are all the alternative ways that a fruit fly can inherit individual switch settings . |
| 5 | " 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What everybody must realize is this , the trade union movement is the meat on the Labour Party 's bones and without us the Party would be a skeleton , lost in a political wilderness . |
| 8 | Now the other thing we should remember is that between nineteen seventy eight and nineteen eighty two , certainly in the early nineteen eighties , eighty , eighty one , we were in the midst of a recession and so that should tell us that really people should have less money to spend on holidays . |
| 9 | What you must remember is that sexuality is as basic a consciousness as information . ’ |
| 10 | But perhaps the moral we should draw is that criticism is not , and can not be , such a discipline ( though literary history is , or may be ) . |
| 11 | Whether it should breed is another matter . |
| 12 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 13 | Frankly , I do not believe that there should have been all this talk about a little bit of majority voting on foreign policy . |
| 14 | The exception was Helga , a Euro-slut from Cologne who should have been several grades higher but kept deliberately failing the aptitude tests so as to be with Massimo . |
| 15 | I felt there should have been more self-control . |
| 16 | The fact that Scottish-sourced network TV accounted for just 1.5 per cent of the national output and 0.8 per cent of the radio programming suggested to the task force it seems , that there should have been more money available for commissioning north of the border . |
| 17 | There should have been either detriment to the plaintiff , or benefit to the defendant : 1 Selwyn 's N.P. 45 ( 9th ed . ) . |
| 18 | ‘ The next step should have been some form of close supervision . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife . |
| 20 | It is therefore slightly ironic that it should have been this same Meistersinger which now finally stirred his feelings to the point where any " healthy " critical stance became impossible . |
| 21 | A HUMBLE £28-a-day flagman bears the main responsibility for the shambles that should have been this year 's Aintree Grand National , according to the official inquiry into ‘ The race that never was . ’ |
| 22 | All this should have been enough to turn us from a nation of householders into a nation of shareholders . |
| 23 | The implied judgement on me , Vicky 's notional partner , should have been enough to send me into a screaming spiral of paranoid depression . |
| 24 | The other cause for concern is the opt-out on the Social Chapter and some have said that should have been enough to cause us to reject Maastricht . |
| 25 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 26 | An uncommonly good lunch it must have been that day . |
| 27 | The reason for excluding the Schutzkorps from repatriation must have been that , although it included a number of Soviet citizens who had joined during the war , a large majority of its members had lived outside Russia since the Civil War and had become passport holders of other countries , mainly Yugoslavia . |
| 28 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |
| 29 | Robert Warshow was to argue quite rightly that there must have been much vicarious pleasure in the enjoyment of these films for audiences could watch gangsters break the law , use violence , take risks , and die but were free themselves to leave the theatre safely . |
| 30 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |