Example sentences of "[vb mod] be a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I assume that we sort of are happy with the format that there should be a national curriculum level and there should be a general skills and abilities ? |
| 2 | Consequently , the Civil Justice Review recommended that there should be a single costs regime for High Court and County Court actions , except for county court actions below £3,000 , since in such smaller cases fixed costs should be attractive and there would be less desire to seek to take such actions in the High Court . |
| 3 | In order to achieve such a streamlined system , the Review also recommended that there should be a single costs regime for High Court and county court cases , subject to an exception for county court cases below £3,000 , that trial facilities should be improved at county courts , that remedies in county courts and the High Court should be harmonised , and that there should be a common core of procedural rules . |
| 4 | Should be a few minutes . ’ |
| 5 | Should be a few goals going in at the Baseball Ground on Sunday … the central live match is Derby County against Oxford United … |
| 6 | Now I M P A C say that they believe there should be a dedicated pensions act to replace trust law and the National Federation Post Office and B T pensioners say trust law should continue to be the basis of pension funds . |
| 7 | " On the face of things it should be an ordinary police inquiry — and not a very difficult one — to find Andrew Stavanger , or , if he is abroad , at least to discover where he is . |
| 8 | And they they should be an explicit criteria saying that locations should be avoided which stimulate as I say , in migration . |
| 9 | There should be an annual Taxes Management Bill to deal with technical alterations to tax law . |
| 10 | In ordinary cases the notice must be a six months ’ notice , ending with a completed year , but in the case of agricultural tenancies the Agricultural Holdings Act 1923 requires a full year 's notice . |
| 11 | Yeah , there must be a million Marks about |
| 12 | I mean , that must be a thousand pounds ' worth of air tickets . |
| 13 | ‘ There must be a few votes for an old soldier in the British Legion clubs , ’ he says optimistically . |
| 14 | Although his friend must be a few years younger than Alice , he was fancy-free , and Alice was so lovely to look at these days , the age difference would n't be noticed . |
| 15 | this is going back must be a few years , we were laughing and figuring sort of , you know , this bloke back of the garage in the end he said we give him the bill and said yeah you can soon run out |
| 16 | Though , come to think of it , anyone who goes rushing around with a child or , worse , a straw bale on their shoulders must be a few bricks short of a stable . |
| 17 | It might be a hundred years from now for all I know . ’ |
| 18 | There might be a thousand methods for closing the deal , but in the end the customers will buy only if they want to buy . |
| 19 | I mean the view that astronomers and most scientists and people who are interested in astronomy had was that there might be a few molecules in space , probably not very many , but if there were they would be very , very simple , probably one or two atoms , perhaps things like water , perhaps things like ammonia , and things like methane — molecules with a large amount of hydrogen attached to them and in fact a thermodynamically staple species . |
| 20 | It gives me great satisfaction but we are not shouting about being second for what might be a few hours . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Rex might be a few minutes late . |
| 22 | If she could then convince Rainald that it might be a few days before she was granted another opportunity to meet him , and if she could discover how many spies the Empress had in Winchester , the precious time gained might be used to save Edmund . |
| 23 | It might be an industrial relations problem , or a shortage of high-calibre people in your [ earn , or a persistent quality problem . |
| 24 | And you can not have a situation where the the sort of almost the norm is , Any difficult decision the government is gon na have to take , there 'll be a dozen colleagues who say , not for us . |
| 25 | Councillor Peter , Mrs Pat , Sir John , Mr Peter and Mrs and David apologize , they will be attending but they 'll be a few minutes late . |
| 26 | And there 'll be a few showers coming along in the afternoon and there 'll be plenty of sunshine about and it should feel reasonably pleasant with temperatures around nine Celsius , forty eight Fahrenheit . |
| 27 | I 'll give my share to your mother and you can tell her you bought it from me ; that way she 'll be content and you 'll be a few pounds better off . |
| 28 | It 'll be a few days before the 70 year old grand dame of the railways moves under her own steam , first there are boiler inspections and checks to prove she can clear every bridge on the Toddington track . |
| 29 | If there 's a vacuum , then there 'll be a few charlatans , a few fools , a few incompetents who will fill that vacuum , because there is a need for people to , to be instant experts on everything . |
| 30 | Of course , they 'll be a few exceptions to this price freeze — mostly those more old-fashioned suppliers like IBM and Hewlett-Packard who can still afford to drop their prices by a notch or two . |