Example sentences of "[modal v] be about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must been about nineteen . |
| 2 | With the heavy No 1 , the genoa car should be about six inches ( 15cm ) more on the checkstays and add additional backstay pressure . |
| 3 | It should be about eight by five actually . |
| 4 | he should be about eight and a half , he 's rescued . |
| 5 | I 'd say I 'd be about fourt I should be about fourteen . |
| 6 | The dose required should be about 3.0 mg for a 25g mouse . |
| 7 | Ewart TV Studios 13 Wandsworth Plane London SW18 collect from there rushes for THE MAGIC MUSIC MAN ( should be about two boxes of tapes ) . |
| 8 | This welt , to be correct should be about 17 to 20 centimetres , 6¾ to 8 inches deep . |
| 9 | But having regard to the document Policies for Housing and Industrial Land in the Greater York Area , on which the County Council has based their proposed provision , and to which the panel referred , he considers that the outer boundary of the Greater York area , should be about five and seven miles from the City Centre , the precise boundary being a consideration for local planning . |
| 10 | Cheap repairing a fuse they should be about right should n't it ? |
| 11 | Should be about right should n't it ? |
| 12 | The level should be about 5 rum above the highest of the blocks . |
| 13 | I think you should be about eighteen . |
| 14 | I say she should be about sixty four , erm eight four |
| 15 | Does n't it feel like it should be about four o'clock in the afternoon ? |
| 16 | At the end of last year , some 6,400 staff were employed in manufacturing-related activities , but there should be about 1,100 fewer by December 1993 . |
| 17 | It was suggested that the number of voting peers should be about 230 , that the Government of the day should always have the largest number of peers but not an absolute majority . |
| 18 | Should be about three hours of recording to be got from them . |
| 19 | Your first offer should be about half what the merchant asks and you should beat him down from there . ’ |
| 20 | Do n't you reckon it feels like it should be about half three ? |
| 21 | The pool should be about 2.5 cm ( 1 in ) below the surrounding ground , for during backfilling the addition of material packed tightly behind the pool will raise it slightly ( Fig 2c ) . |
| 22 | Suggested arrival time [ his latest communiqué read ] should be about 16.00 hours , after Giovanna has recovered from her siesta . |
| 23 | That there should be about 400 woody species in a hectare of South American or Malaysian forest has led to problems not only in accounting for such diversity , the main subject of this chapter , but also in actually measuring the richness of such forests . |
| 24 | Ideally , the ratio of calcium to phosphorus should be about 2 parts of calcium to 1 of phosphorus , and at its very lowest 1:1 . |
| 25 | In the bottom of the bag place some pond-mud , some fine washed gravel or some washed sand- the layer should be about 2 cm deep . |
| 26 | Run a program of this type on both your machine and your friend 's and compare results — your friend 's PC should be about 20 per cent faster , all other things being equal . |
| 27 | Two and a half that 's about that should be about seven or eight thousand wo n't it ? |
| 28 | These should be about 23 cm ( 9 in ) deep and of similar width if they are to accommodate aquatic planting baskets properly . |
| 29 | I forget how many golf courses there are in my constituency , but there must be about 10 . |
| 30 | He 's a ball winner , and given that his average minutes/appearance during his time with Leeds must be about 10 , he 's knocked in his share of goals . |