Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our primary motives for climbing a hill should be because it simply looks attractive , or out of botanical , geological or historical interest . |
| 2 | Well it certainly should be because it 's for the families , for the young children and they , they ca n't understand what it , all of it is about so it should be kept as simple and as short as possible . |
| 3 | They should be cos it 's a straight line equation . |
| 4 | The unprimed will not necessarily be diagonal as it should be if it is to satisfy the first part of eqn ( 6.16 ) . |
| 5 | It should be , it should be if it 's part of the basis upon which you are making an allegation that a duty arises . |
| 6 | I 've got enough just to manage , but things are n't what they should be and it 's not what we were used to in the old days . ’ |
| 7 | He never writes a memo saying you know we are supporting or attacking this government as about this election campaign , never , but journalists know what his view is and they write in a code with that view and if they did n't they would quickly find out where they should be and it would not be working for one of those newspapers and the thing that 's quite perverse about it is the . |
| 8 | However , governments have for a long time been divided over how large a merger must be before it passes out of national hands to Brussels . |
| 9 | The principle must be whether it is right to use public money to reward something that has happened anyway or to encourage something that might not happen if we do not use that public money . |
| 10 | Putting the government 's abandonment of the PWRs in the context of the study , the conclusion must be that it decided that , under market force rules , carbon dioxide had to be allowed to win the day over nuclear power . |
| 11 | The conclusion must be that it could , only if there had have been genuine prospects that an improved , amalgamated and better managed canal system could make a viable contribution to an efficient transport system of the country . |
| 12 | The main criterion for an effective service must be that it is staffed by experienced professionals who are appropriately qualified . |
| 13 | One reason must be that it is the only staging halt within thirty miles ; another , more certainly , is the excellence of the seaward views and , in particular , the glorious sweep of the silver sands of Sango Bay and Balnakeil Bay , both exquisitely charming in kind weather . |
| 14 | The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all . |
| 15 | The answer must be that it is much less important by what mechanisms people come across art than what they themselves bring to the encounter . |
| 16 | Consequently , the reply to the national court must be that it is not contrary to Community law for a member state to stipulate as a condition for the registration of a fishing vessel in its national register that the vessel in question must be managed and its operations directed and controlled from within that member state . |
| 17 | The weakness of a political office must be that it would lack the knowledge and experience of traditional civil servants . |
| 18 | But given the fact that names in such cases do behave as rigid designators , the question is , does the referential rigidity provide a sufficient criterion for distinguishing names from descriptions , and the answer to this clearly must be that it does not . |
| 19 | The answer must be that it could not since the fact of adopting depreciation accounting severs the link with finance . |
| 20 | The suspicion must be that it was a combination of excessive speed and the failure of the driver or guard to apply the brakes early enough that caused the accident . |
| 21 | The conclusion must be that it will be unusual , though not impossible to envisage , that business policy etc will be protectable . |
| 22 | Must be cos it 's so horrible . |
| 23 | It must be because it gets me out of the tent in the middle of the night to stand and contemplate the untroubled majesty of The Plough . |
| 24 | No that must be because it 's |
| 25 | Yeah , yeah , yeah it must be because it 's erm , is it two hundred miles or not quite ? |
| 26 | Well i by definition it must be if it excludes all A classes for example . |
| 27 | I said Well it must be if it 's to twenty three . |
| 28 | The brief answer might be that it was an unintended consequence of a largely implicit and undebated policy decision . |
| 29 | The reason for this might be that it feels more possible to grieve the death of someone or something that is perhaps significant , but not so important as the death of the spouse . |
| 30 | If the question is asked whether Gandhi is not aware of the dangers of contradiction in his use of personal and impersonal terms to describe God , the answer might be that it would depend whether the personal use of the term God refers to an entity , or being , in the form of an extra-mundane person , whether or not a contradiction is involved . |