Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [adj] [noun] " 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 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 5 | now there , there must 've been one reason why you chose Friends Provident . |
| 6 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What you must remember is that sexuality is as basic a consciousness as information . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Whether it should breed is another matter . |
| 12 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 13 | So that would have been point two five which should have been fifteen minutes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | According to aviation officials the A-300 should have been 1,500 feet higher at the point where it crashed into a jagged mountain face . |
| 16 | There should have been real mountains , or no mountains at all . |
| 17 | Perhaps , as Cliff Bastin remarked , ‘ He should have been prime minister . ’ |
| 18 | There should have been major expenditure on affordable provision , this would be a major factor in getting people back to work . ’ |
| 19 | The bruises on her tender bottom should have been visual signs of her hatred of him . |
| 20 | That should have been six times nought point two over |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Now that should have been front page news — a well-written piece I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 23 | You think I should have been living life to the full , then , and not mourning your brother ? ’ |
| 24 | Your relationship with Petula should have been sufficient deterrent . |
| 25 | There were ten tables , so there should have been ten runners , but only three started . |
| 26 | At precisely what date he went is difficult to determine , for although Ibn Hajar states that he went to Egypt in 778/1376–7 , he follows this immediately with the statement whereas in fact Molla Fenari should have been twenty-seven years of age at that date according to the birthdate given by Ibn Hajar himself . |
| 27 | The exception was Helga , a Euro-slut from Cologne who should have been several grades higher but kept deliberately failing the aptitude tests so as to be with Massimo . |
| 28 | As an agency working in the field of community development , the past two years should have been optimistic ones for Falls Community Council , as new money pumped through BAT has been made available to us and the groups we work for and with . |
| 29 | On a comparison of populations there should have been 4,500 houses built in Derry but only 3,000 had , in fact , been built . |
| 30 | 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 . |