Example sentences of "[modal v] be [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course if a number of horses are being fed in a paddock , their feedbins should be spaced well apart and there should be one for every horse . |
| 2 | ‘ There should be one on the table . ’ |
| 3 | mind there should be one , there should be one in the apartment |
| 4 | With fireworks , comedians , lectures , and classical and big band orchestras , there should be something at the Chichester Festivities for practically everyone . |
| 5 | If the parties do not wish to be bound by time limits there should be none in the lease . |
| 6 | Duart 's wife should be his in the sight of God and man . ’ |
| 7 | There is no reason why , out of the whole Universe , it should be us at the centre . ’ |
| 8 | So behind every change , every innovation , every development project , there must be somebody with a vision who has been able to communicate and sell that vision to somebody else ( even when the change begins with an assignment , not a self-directed initiative ) . |
| 9 | We have n't had any disasters yet , but there must be one on the way . |
| 10 | For active hunting , a heavy shell must be something of a handicap and some carnivorous molluscs have taken to a faster if riskier life by doing without it altogether and reverting to the life-style of their flatworm-like ancestors . |
| 11 | ‘ Anybody who would hire a waitress without an ounce of experience must be something of a saint , ’ Charity agreed . |
| 12 | It must be something of a surprise today the announcement ? |
| 13 | But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't seem to have made a brilliant start so far — getting lost and being late on my first day must be something of a record ! ’ |
| 15 | I think one of the problems with any new department is that there are new staff from other ministries and there must be something of a learning curve for them and probably some propensity to control their various parishioners . |
| 16 | We have perhaps learned one great lesson — that Socialism must be something of a religion to us before it can have any meaning in times of real stress . |
| 17 | All these explanations were proffered , haphazardly , one on top of the other , and from the excess of explanation Clara concluded that a job in a gallery such as Clelia 's must be something of a sinecure , and that Clelia 's attitude towards it was not wholly happy . |
| 18 | The number of individual insects in the world seems beyond any computation , but someone has made the attempt and concluded that at any one time , there must be something of the order of one thousand million thousand million . |
| 19 | It must be something of the sentiment that inspired the war poets , enduring indescribable ugliness — the mutilation and destruction of people and places amongst the fragile flowers that nature silently but abundantly proffered in the stench , decay and squalor of the trenches . |
| 20 | Must be something at the top of that chimney . |
| 21 | ‘ It must be something about the place , ’ she agreed meekly . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ However , I think there must be something between the pair we do n't know about . |
| 23 | There must be something in the Gallacher dynasty that provokes scandal . |
| 24 | Whether an individual member of the class can sue depends upon the size of the class and the nature of the comment : there must be something in the circumstances to make the ordinary reader feel that the plaintiff personally is the target of the criticism . |
| 25 | THERE MUST be something in the air tonight — apart from the hard frost . |
| 26 | THERE MUST be something in the air tonight — apart from the hard frost . |
| 27 | It must be something in the water … |
| 28 | Clearly there must be something in the water at Westminster which inevitably drives all our politicians into the realms of fantasy ! |
| 29 | ‘ I guess it must be something in the chemistry . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |