Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [det] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There should be more people and lots of wine , ’ said Penelope impetuously . |
| 2 | The overflow should be some 50mm ( 2in ) above the cistern water level . |
| 3 | Once the machine has been defrosted there should be some means of disposing of the defrost water . |
| 4 | She should be several people . |
| 5 | I 'M sure there must be many people like me who have been troubled by telephone calls at ungodly hours which have turned out to be BT testing the lines . |
| 6 | Hence there must be many people searching in the belief that lower prices will be found . |
| 7 | There must be many people who knew this state of financial insecurity but she found that she did not want to think about them . |
| 8 | Mr Zamoyski was not entirely fluent in his adopted language , and there must be few people locally , other than his wife perhaps , with whom he could speak Polish . |
| 9 | There must be few people in modern industrial societies who have not taken part in an interview for a social survey for the purposes of market research , public opinion polling or academic research ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 10 | Well it 's not that open because we 're saying there must be some staff something written by staff |
| 11 | there must be some people there that wonder what that was really . |
| 12 | There must be some people must have them that 's right |
| 13 | and erm I think there must be some people there who have brought cats in because all of a sudden there are a whole lot of cats about which there were n't before you see |
| 14 | There must be some people that fancy her actually |
| 15 | To swim a distance of 3.1 kilometres in five hours , with a solid roof and no air space above you , visibility often zero and only a thin nylon line to follow , must be most people 's idea of the worst dive in the world … |
| 16 | Right okay yeah the produ there in actual fact they 're , they 're relati , yep , you , you 're correct in that they they may well have risen , right , over that period erm but relative to manufacturing prices they have fallen erm let's just see if there might be some data in there er erm I thought I had some . |
| 17 | There 'll be some people from home with all the latest news . " |
| 18 | I think it would be some who does n't have a close family because there 'll be some people round here who probably wo n't . |
| 19 | They 'll be some people who erm , for whatever reason wo n't come out because it 's the worst possible day for the weather , and and and poles have been affected by weather . |
| 20 | Okay , erm the quality of exam I mean there 'll be some people here who will feel embarrassed to have submitted the work that they 've written , right ? |
| 21 | It 's just that you know I mean if you want to talk numbers , there 'll be less people |
| 22 | sort of yeah , I think it 'll be more means tested wo n't it ? |
| 23 | but there could be more people . |
| 24 | Translating them into actual events , there could be few people who had anticipated that a British Airways Boeing 747 would suffer loss of power on all four engines for sixteen minutes when it flew into a volcanic ash cloud at 37 000 feet . |
| 25 | There may be some people who would like to see you break your neck , but I am not one of them . ’ |
| 26 | There may be some people who simply observe the outward forms of religion , in order to keep up appearances or not to upset their relations , but who have no real religious belief or feelings … |
| 27 | Having explored some aspects of being a principal carer , and the cared for elderly person in a close relationship in a family , we need to look in more detail at the character of informal care networks , where there may be more people involved in a less intense way . |
| 28 | Mr Jay 's article quoted annual claims payments of £95 million for 210,000 such people — which , at that rate , would be some £272 million for all 600,000 . |
| 29 | Cmnd. 9058 estimated that the cost of implementation over the first two years would be some £35 million , which would cover staff costs , computer hardware and software , and consultancy . |
| 30 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |