Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adj] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Norman Maltby , head of leisure services , said : ‘ All the work should be complete within two or three weeks . |
2 | At the present level of staffing the project should be complete within ten years , with the German funding providing for two members of staff for three years . |
3 | Builders move in during the next two weeks and work should be complete in 20 weeks , he said . |
4 | ‘ You think she should be pregnant for nine months and go through all the agonies of giving birth , and then give it away ? ’ |
5 | RBG Edinburgh recorded 786,000 visits in 1990 , although it is probably a minimum figure and with more careful monitoring of ALL visitor numbers , including educational activities and special groups , a more accurate figure should be available for 1991 . |
6 | In 1912 the Guild annual congress passed a resolution that divorce should be available after two years ' separation . |
7 | Copies of archived material should be available within twenty four hours . |
8 | Mr claims for a five year replacement cycle , but I consider the vehicle is likely to have a lower mileage than is usual and that the replacement cycle should be one of eight years . |
9 | My data , gathered painstakingly from the local Basque press over the past 15 years , suggest the number should be closer to 600 . |
10 | Age Concern believes that the basic state pension should be equal to one third average earnings for a single pension and one half for a couple . |
11 | Thus , for example , various books on growing different flowers ( such as roses , chrysanthemums , dahlias and sweet peas ) should be close to one another when arranged on shelves in accordance with the classification scheme . |
12 | ‘ I should be better in two or three days . |
13 | Looking back nearly a decade later , many might feel that the principle emerging from the Committee 's recommendations as most important for consumers was that consumer credit , whatever its apparent form , should be subject to one single system of regulation . |
14 | They decided that packed lunches should be standard-rated from 1 July . |
15 | The seedlings should be visible within 14–21 days , and by then the bag can be removed . |
16 | But promoter Mickey Duff said : ‘ If we 're talking retirement it should be 5 to 4 ON Carpenter going before Graham ! ’ |
17 | However , the company 's spec calls for it to support six to eight P5s which it says should be capable of 250 transactions a second . |
18 | In our electronic technology the discrete , digital locations have only two states , conventionally represented as 0 and 1 although you can think of them as high and low , on and off , up and down : all that matters is that they should be distinct from one another , and that the pattern of their states can be ‘ read out ’ so that it can have some influence on something . |
19 | Unions should be involved in 3 ways . |
20 | So I suppose we should be thankful for 3 points . |
21 | On a first reading it seems puzzling that the ‘ Poorer Growth ’ camps should be those of five or six of our best camp managers whose experience of diet is exceptional , and that the ‘ Good Growth ’ camps should include two Managers whose catering has constantly to be reviewed as not up to our standard . |
22 | The row of characters for a particular vibration , Γv , is called a representation , and it should be identical with one of the irreducible representations of the point group . |
23 | ( d ) Effect of break-clause The draftsman should be aware of two important consequences of the insertion of a break-clause . |
24 | Requests for copy which would occupy ten columns or less should be satisfied within four hours . |
25 | This gives a capacity of around 120 litres ( 26 gallons ) which should be sufficient for one full bath . |
26 | It will be housed inside a £15 million building in Edinburgh and should be ready by 1987 . |
27 | I do not suggest that to restore benefit to 16 to 18-year-olds would solve this problem overnight , but it would go far down the road to alleviating this problem which surely must be unacceptable in 1993 . |
28 | A second must be five to 10 years later , and so on until fairly recently . |
29 | This is 1 million Hungarian forints ( roughly equal to £8,000 ) , and although the contribution of members may differ it may not be less than 100,000 forints each and the amount must be divisible by 10,000 forints . |
30 | Must be hundreds of thousands of times . |