Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And your Annie , if all tales are true , she 's got a relative that 's no better than she should be an' livin' nicely on it . |
| 2 | Thank you , yes they should be but stand up and I 'm only trying to help in the situation . |
| 3 | If you are using Windows , then it should be that choosing the option File Save will save your work . |
| 4 | There 's no way it should be that complicated a lot of the problems are caused by the rules being so complicated that you have to be working in that particular field |
| 5 | The volume name should be that supplied in the first answer and the volume number should be the extension supplied at the end of the volume name in the HC FORMATTER 's end of run statistics . |
| 6 | Pregnant ladies and elderly people should be careful when eating soft cheese , as they should be when exercising . |
| 7 | I hope for your sake that those who provide them for you are as careful in following the rules as you should be when creating your own . |
| 8 | These also suggest what the answer should be or indicate the questioner 's point of view , e.g. ‘ Are you against excessive cuts in university funding ? ’ . |
| 9 | And oh , the frustration that can build up in our lives as Christians because we are not where we should be or doing what God purposes for us ! |
| 10 | Good d Good does in fact do what you said and his recommendation er for final salary schemes is er a third of the trustees should be or have the right to be er from the , the members and er er we 've in our er comments to you have er looked at a global point of view and said no not are these proposals worthy in themselves , but using a different criteria that if they had been law as Ken said earlier , would they have stopped Maxwell and a situation where a third of the trustees were er were they members er would have made no difference er cos typically in our cases there were originally about four trustees er and unfortunately for us , three of them were named Maxwell . |
| 11 | The goods should be as described by the retailer |
| 12 | The goods should be as described by the retailer |
| 13 | You 've got the right whatever you 've bought should be as described , which brings us back to your problem of the C D described as Slavonic dances when really it was country and western . |
| 14 | Now if you do that the only right you 've got , in law , is that the car should be as described . |
| 15 | According to the Ministry memorandum their membership should be as follows : |
| 16 | The purchaser 's objectives for the first meeting should be as follows : |
| 17 | The serious Christian , set down for the first time in a Christian community , is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life together should be and try to realize it . |
| 18 | Find out what colours they should be and colour them in . |
| 19 | It means that they should be and do what we would reasonably expect of them . |
| 20 | Their discussion of what the press ‘ should be and do ’ reflects an East — West Cold War divide and they set out ideal , polar positions so as to highlight differences . |
| 21 | Managers decide what the objectives of the organisation should be and quantify the targets of achievement for each objective . |
| 22 | The Beveridge reforms of the post-war years laid out a framework for the welfare state based on the assumption that women should be and wanted to be , first and foremost , wives and mothers . |
| 23 | Is not the difficulty that the Home Secretary is incapable of keeping in prison those people who should be and keeping out of prison those things which should not be ? |
| 24 | The auto gearbox refuses to take the revcounter needle anywhere near the red line ( and that 's set only at 4500rpm ) , which means the chances of kicking down into a lower gear are limited , making A-road overtaking manoeuvres more ponderous than they should be and knocking a substantial hole in the cruising speed when you meet a hill . |
| 25 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 26 | This indicates that if the court 's desire is to protect the public from persons who take vehicles without the owner 's consent , that is by a sense of general deterrence , then this particular criterion of the Criminal Justice Act will not be applicable The question posed for the courts must be whether taking a vehicle without consent can ever , as an individual offence , be so serious that a non-custodial sentence can not be considered . |
| 27 | He thought how poisonous these mists must be that rolled in over the east coast : all the local inhabitants were as aggressive as fighting cocks . |
| 28 | The answer must be that trying to give values to the environment is an irrelevance . |
| 29 | You see , I think our next priority must be that bit out there , where we , where we 've got no damp course . . |
| 30 | If they are to be understood they must be as shown in the Highway Code . |