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 .
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