Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] of [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 2 | This must of course be partly because inflation has made even £100 too small a sum to need spreading over many instalment repayments . |
| 3 | This would of course be the case in actions in rem , which were brought precisely against the possessors of disputed objects . |
| 4 | This would of course be analogous to the typical von Restorff effect in which a single distinctive item is better remembered than the rest of a list . |
| 5 | None of that would of course be comprehensible to Moss and McGrindle , he wrote , to Pizzetti and Baiocchi , to Goldman and Goldstein , though Goldberg , to his credit , has had an inkling , has to some extent faced the thought that he might be wasting his whole life , for that 's what it comes down to in the end , he wrote , wasting a whole life when something useful might have been salvaged , something valuable perhaps , it is the refusal of those alternatives that occasionally makes one shiver . |
| 6 | 3472 , and that will of course be internal , alright ? |
| 7 | The same can of course be said of a great novel , for if houses are like stories , stories are also like houses . |