Example sentences of "[modal v] be some [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Nor did she know if there should be some legal document setting out the terms upon which landladies and lodgers agreed .
2 That should be some powerful stuff .
3 If continuity is the key to football hooliganism , then there should be some solid evidence of similar forms of violence at football matches since the formation of the Football League .
4 There should be some certain fund for bailing out people who are in real , terrible difficulties .
5 There should be some reasonable roach catches possible from just above Milton Bridge and downstream to Orton Weir , but below the weir poor .
6 Loss of rent should be insured but there should be some upper limitation on the number of years ' cover .
7 Although it is fun to browse and choose whatever fabric appeals to you the most , there should be some definite planning behind your purchase .
8 ‘ I 'm fed up , sick , sick , sick to here with people saying I should be some other way !
9 Thus it does seem that the sequence of more and more refined theories should have some limit as we go to higher and higher energies , so that there should be some ultimate theory of the universe .
10 The current high profile of the sport in the province should ensure a big crowd and there should be some tremendous hurling . ’
11 Did you er Superintendent yourself consider whether perhaps there should be some undercover surveillance of this flat ?
12 Admittedly , this was a placid residential district , but there should be some exterior noise : occasional traffic , water dripping from the eaves , distant carol singers , murmuring electrical appliances .
13 His position is that we should think of rules as practices , as ways of behaving , and not suppose that to support this way of behaving there must be some internal interpretation of the rule which tells the rule-followers how to work the rule .
14 Fifthly , there would need to be some specific relation between their overall goals ( if interaction is agonistic , or in the terminology of the theory of games , zero-sum , then their goals must be inversely related ; if interaction is cooperative then there must be some specific shared goals ) .
15 There must be some powerful transmitter at work .
16 There may be occasions when the time involved in the journey home means that you would arrive with a pile of wilted , or even dead , flowers , in which case there must be some forward planning .
17 Even for the much more limited requirement of a qualification based purely on whether a significant proportion of the likely distribution of outcomes gives a negative net worth , there must be some implicit formulation of a distribution and a cut-off percentage .
18 There must be some evolutionary purpose to this constant verbal skirmishing and foraying .
19 I have no doubt there are many things you wish they did n't do , or were not , but there must be some good points !
20 The witness must be outside the jurisdiction and there must be some good reason why he can not attend for examination in the usual way .
21 There must be some good food round here somewhere .
22 There must be some good things "
23 ‘ There is no choice but to take an ugly and difficult decision to avert an even greater injustice , and those who cry halt and say there must be some other way , even though every conceivable way has been sought , would carry the responsibility for the even more catastrophic consequences of inaction , ’ he added .
24 ‘ There must be some other way of identifying him , ’ I said .
25 ‘ One day he will learn better about us , but in the meantime there must be some other place for us .
26 ‘ So there must be some other reason you changed yer time off .
27 If Hannah was the manager , there must be some other business Tabitha could do for her .
28 There must be some other reason …
29 But I was sure there must be some other reason for the red shift .
30 There must be some other way . ’
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