Example sentences of "[modal v] be [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should be with this note the following documents : |
| 2 | There was a growing feeling that the second minister on the Circuit should be free to concentrate his energies on the Edenderry district and that in fact the No 2 Manse should be at should be at this end of the town . |
| 3 | I 'm afraid that this time he wo n't be so lucky … he wo n't come back and I 'll end up losing him to some atrocious person that really and truthfully I do n't think should be on this earth |
| 4 | Because it was on the other B B C one so it should be on this one as well . |
| 5 | Jean , that er antique fair should be on this month . |
| 6 | They all got totally zonkers and were like running from machine to machine making and Benguiat the , not Benguiat , Brillo , was yelling it should be like this all the time . |
| 7 | Instead , I will simply buy more film and , encouraged as any amateur should be by this well-presented book , I will get back to grovelling on my knees in the Oxfordshire hedgerows . |
| 8 | All the emphasis , she felt , must be on this coming as an order which could not be disobeyed and yet put in such a way as not to be offensive . |
| 9 | Mm she must be at this stage . |
| 10 | It must be like this for a minister paying his visits . |
| 11 | ‘ Have you , ’ he enquired , ‘ thought how many women there must be in this country who are giving birth this very minute who know nothing about babies , but will have to cope without any help whatsoever ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But the murderer of Cosmas and Damien must be in this household . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The mechanism must be in this bed post , with a spring that runs here under the boarding and up into the other . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They must be from this area though , because they know it so well . |
| 15 | Who knows how hard they might be along this slash through the fiercest mountain crag in Wales ? |
| 16 | Given leave to speak , he said he had gone into the church to help , and had simply obeyed such orders as were given to him , and he knew nothing of where the saint 's coffin might be at this moment . |
| 17 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
| 18 | To pick up David 's point now , if this is the client who 's already running the house , the mortgage , it 's , you know , a few years old , they want to take out a further advance , for some house improvements , or something , then obviously they now need more , so it might be at this stage we then want a P S P for the remaining , you know , ten years , eleven years , twelve years , or whatever , because they 've borrowed some more money from the building society . |
| 19 | On a single syllable ‘ why ’ , the pitch movement might be of this sort : but if there are syllables following , the fall may not be completed on the tonic syllable : why did you go |
| 20 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 21 | Conversation analysis , which is sometimes regarded as distinct from discourse analysis ( Levinson 1983:286 ) , is a branch of study which sets out to discover what order there might be in this apparent chaos . |
| 22 | The leader of a research group might be in this position . |
| 23 | One dimension might be in this time , as we have seen , the mother might reach a stage where , she , it 's in her productive self interest to start another offspring , and she may want to wean the existing one , so she can do that . |
| 24 | I was born in the seventies she might be in this one . |
| 25 | So a typical card might be like this . |
| 26 | ‘ What makes you so sure they 'll be on this ferry , anyway ? ’ |
| 27 | Well you 'll be on this one wo n't you ? |
| 28 | We 're just at the beginning of it and this is going to go on till the end of April or May now , it 'll be like this . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll be in this again and again . |
| 30 | there 's hundreds of French , Germans they 're waiting until the first of July and they 'll be in this country in a flash . |