Example sentences of "[modal v] be [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should be slightly acid or neutral , with a pH of 6.5–7.0 . |
| 2 | It winds down into winter , and yet by rights it should be barely midsummer . |
| 3 | The MEC says the secret is in the drying : hair should be thoroughly towel dried , so the rinse can saturate the hair without being diluted . |
| 4 | The BBC 's Regional Role : English regional TV should be exclusively news and current affairs . |
| 5 | He also quoted Mallarmé " I think … that there should be only allusion … |
| 6 | Large bulbs should be only half-buried ; with smaller ones , the tips should be just below the compost surface . |
| 7 | It also began to look at proposals for MA courses , and at its November 1966 meeting , for example , it expressed the view that a proposed MA in Business Administration at Portsmouth College of Technology did not meet the CNAA 's criterion that the content should be substantially postgraduate in character : too much of it was introductory work , insufficiently rooted in the basic disciplines . |
| 8 | Where it is necessary to apply specific control measures , it is suggested that the flock should be annually ally treated with a suitable anthelmintic in late pregnancy . |
| 9 | Further research will be needed to develop effective school based health education projects , which should be formally field tested under normal conditions before widespread dissemination . |
| 10 | The fact that a negative view of women is conveyed at a level which must be largely subconscious makes these texts all the more dangerous . |
| 11 | Additionally , respondents must be both television subscribers and telephone subscribers . |
| 12 | Being-for-itself must be wholly body and it must be wholly consciousness ; it can not be united with a body . |
| 13 | Being-for-itself must be wholly body and it must be wholly consciousness ; it can not be united with a body . |
| 14 | After hearing his name on the radio , he had thought it must be just bravado on Paul Lexington 's part , the young producer falling into cliche , insisting that the show must go on when all logic showed it was impossible . |
| 15 | ‘ It must be nearly time for the service to start . ’ |
| 16 | But it must be nearly dinner time now . |
| 17 | It must be almost time for lunch . ’ |
| 18 | I am not dying , no , I have suffered a terrible nightmare , but I am here , in my room , and the night must be far gone , it must be almost morning , I shall go downstairs and make myself a first pot of tea . |
| 19 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 20 | When they come to consider the plaintiff 's damages , it must be highly material that they then may say to themselves , however , this would family was harbouring this dangerous criminal two days beforehand . |
| 21 | We must be constantly vigil and keep a sharp look out for new issues which need to be put on our agenda , so that we can keep pace with the changes that affect our members and organization . |
| 22 | I hoped it would be put to use , though there was a chance it might be just ballast for the journey . |
| 23 | The alternative to institution-led standards might be either deprofessionalisation or re-registration tests of competence . |
| 24 | Tutwork was also estimated on a tonnage basis , the miners being paid on a bargain according to the actual weight of material extracted , which might be either ore or stone . |
| 25 | He said it might be tomorrow night , it might not be . |
| 26 | That 's what I he did agree to it when I I mentioned it to him but I just ha I want to check if he 's doing one tomorrow , cos if he 's doing one tomorrow it might be tomorrow morning so I 'll have |
| 27 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 28 | Fifty , sixty , seventy , oh she might be still living . |
| 29 | Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so . |
| 30 | I think we 'll be away dad because |