Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another measure which the Tories may consider is increased influence over their own affairs for Scottish MPs through the committee structure at Westminster . |
| 2 | It should 've been first thing in morning if that would happen . |
| 3 | It must 've been fifteen foot at least up in the air teetering on a top branch . |
| 4 | now there , there must 've been one reason why you chose Friends Provident . |
| 5 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 6 | So an example of words we should use are this example and there 's a handout to write , to recite , to identify , to differentiate , to solve , to construct , to list , to compare , to controls . |
| 7 | What you must remember is that sexuality is as basic a consciousness as information . ’ |
| 8 | But perhaps the moral we should draw is that criticism is not , and can not be , such a discipline ( though literary history is , or may be ) . |
| 9 | Whether it should breed is another matter . |
| 10 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 11 | After recording a verdict of accidental death coroner Nicholas Gardiner said it was known that the seats should have been rear facing but he did n't think this would have affected the outcome . |
| 12 | Perhaps , as Cliff Bastin remarked , ‘ He should have been prime minister . ’ |
| 13 | There should have been major expenditure on affordable provision , this would be a major factor in getting people back to work . ’ |
| 14 | Well we had to keep somebody on watch in case there was any damage , say the ship was up the river and a chain broke or they hit you , so you had to put your navigation lights up and to put navigation lights up we had hurricane lamps , we had a red and a white one , they should have been six foot apart , they never were they was about three foot . |
| 15 | Now that should have been front page news — a well-written piece I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 16 | You think I should have been living life to the full , then , and not mourning your brother ? ’ |
| 17 | Your relationship with Petula should have been sufficient deterrent . |
| 18 | The fact that Scottish-sourced network TV accounted for just 1.5 per cent of the national output and 0.8 per cent of the radio programming suggested to the task force it seems , that there should have been more money available for commissioning north of the border . |
| 19 | I felt there should have been more self-control . |
| 20 | There should have been either detriment to the plaintiff , or benefit to the defendant : 1 Selwyn 's N.P. 45 ( 9th ed . ) . |
| 21 | ‘ The next step should have been some form of close supervision . ’ |
| 22 | A HUMBLE £28-a-day flagman bears the main responsibility for the shambles that should have been this year 's Aintree Grand National , according to the official inquiry into ‘ The race that never was . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife . |
| 24 | This and similar observations indicate that the polymer can occupy less volume when surrounded by benzene molecules and that there must have been unused space in the glassy matrix to allow this increase in packing efficiency to occur . |
| 25 | It must have been dull touring around Britain after Broadway but she knew of no alternative . |
| 26 | It must , it must have been absolute arm and a leg . |
| 27 | Held , allowing the appeal , the judge had referred to Cavendish ( 1961 ) 45 Cr.App.R. 374 in ruling that it was open to a jury to infer from all the circumstances that there must have been prior arrangement with the occupier for such a large quantity of burglary proceeds to arrive so quickly at the premises . |
| 28 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 29 | An uncommonly good lunch it must have been that day . |
| 30 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |