Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The standard should be higher when a power to affect liberty was in issue . |
| 2 | It should be encouraging and a challenge . ’ |
| 3 | From the discussion of manufacturing output in Chapter 2 , it should be apparent that a growth in employment is not the same as a growth in output . |
| 4 | I should be surprised if a change at the top alters a necessary reorganization which is already under way . ’ |
| 5 | Should be more than a bit but I got Marg . |
| 6 | Speechreading should be more than a communication aid ; it should enrich your quality of life , perhaps assisting you to become a more observant person , more aware , more alive , with the flexibility to adapt and adjust to new circumstances and with the courage and confidence to persist . |
| 7 | However , the statement should be more than a transcript . |
| 8 | In the section entitled ‘ Juvenile Employment ’ , Beveridge pressed the view that the exchange should be more than a place of registration and placement : it should be ‘ both a market-place and a centre of guidance and supervision in the choice of ‘ careers ’ . |
| 9 | These same tests should be satisfied before a magistrate commits anyone for trial in relation to a libel which has not appeared in a newspaper or periodical . |
| 10 | So there were large numbers of spectators who simply had no idea that you should be quiet when a golfer is about to hit a shot . |
| 11 | It should be clear that a God who was simply ‘ outside ’ the world in the way that the President of France was ‘ outside ’ Britain could hardly at the same time be present in it . |
| 12 | The term ‘ consultation ’ is often used inaccurately ; we should be clear as a union , but also CA as an organisation , as to what we mean by it . |
| 13 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 14 | From this description it should be obvious that a pension fund can be confident of the source and scale of its contributions since these are a contractual obligation for employer and all employees . |
| 15 | MAS : outstanding costs should be recoverable if a sale falls through either because the vendors voluntarily withdraw from the sale process or because the status of the vendor company is materially different from that disclosed in the Information memorandum . |
| 16 | Holmes and Forster interpreted this pattern as indicating that a listener 's processing load is least at clause boundaries , since reaction time should be shortest when a subject has the smallest processing load . |
| 17 | She must be eight and a half . |
| 18 | For surely they could be forgiven for believing that a prince 's promise to pay later must be firmer than a pauper 's ? |
| 19 | yeah cos er , yeah he must be two and a half , cos er |
| 20 | By definition , a scheme of that size must be better than a scheme that is based on an individual privatised subsidiary or on one privatised company on its own . |
| 21 | Putting patients first must be more than a slogan |
| 22 | It must be more than a coincidence that all this was happening simultaneously . |
| 23 | British film practice , to fulfil its potential function , must be more than a business enterprise . |
| 24 | The Patents Act 1977 lays down several requirements which must be satisfied before a patent can be granted and , furthermore , certain things are specifically excluded from patentability . |
| 25 | For this is to stipulate that Lenin 's three criteria must be satisfied if a whole is to count as a complex one . |
| 26 | Even for a paedophile , life in Russia might be better than a cell in Long Lartin prison . |
| 27 | He felt the first dabs of rain , and held out his palm to inspect the circles of water as though they might be gold or a map of the city . |
| 28 | Travelling and sitting with them might be more than a man can bear first thing in the new year . |
| 29 | filled in my Pools I might be lucky But a beggar cayent be a chooser |
| 30 | And of course it 'll be four and a half after it 's paid tax , you know if you 've got any tax credits from your nationalized shares , you 'll see those come through , and y you 've got the net return . |