Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should be with this note the following documents : |
| 2 | There was a growing feeling that the second minister on the Circuit should be free to concentrate his energies on the Edenderry district and that in fact the No 2 Manse should be at should be at this end of the town . |
| 3 | I 'm afraid that this time he wo n't be so lucky … he wo n't come back and I 'll end up losing him to some atrocious person that really and truthfully I do n't think should be on this earth |
| 4 | Jean , that er antique fair should be on this month . |
| 5 | Mm she must be at this stage . |
| 6 | ‘ But the murderer of Cosmas and Damien must be in this household . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Have you , ’ he enquired , ‘ thought how many women there must be in this country who are giving birth this very minute who know nothing about babies , but will have to cope without any help whatsoever ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The mechanism must be in this bed post , with a spring that runs here under the boarding and up into the other . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ They must be from this area though , because they know it so well . |
| 10 | Who knows how hard they might be along this slash through the fiercest mountain crag in Wales ? |
| 11 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
| 12 | Given leave to speak , he said he had gone into the church to help , and had simply obeyed such orders as were given to him , and he knew nothing of where the saint 's coffin might be at this moment . |
| 13 | To pick up David 's point now , if this is the client who 's already running the house , the mortgage , it 's , you know , a few years old , they want to take out a further advance , for some house improvements , or something , then obviously they now need more , so it might be at this stage we then want a P S P for the remaining , you know , ten years , eleven years , twelve years , or whatever , because they 've borrowed some more money from the building society . |
| 14 | On a single syllable ‘ why ’ , the pitch movement might be of this sort : but if there are syllables following , the fall may not be completed on the tonic syllable : why did you go |
| 15 | The leader of a research group might be in this position . |
| 16 | One dimension might be in this time , as we have seen , the mother might reach a stage where , she , it 's in her productive self interest to start another offspring , and she may want to wean the existing one , so she can do that . |
| 17 | ‘ What makes you so sure they 'll be on this ferry , anyway ? ’ |
| 18 | there 's hundreds of French , Germans they 're waiting until the first of July and they 'll be in this country in a flash . |
| 19 | Yeah could be off this pork farm , oh no he 'd kee he 'd breed partridge not pheasant would n't he ? |
| 20 | Of the former criteria , arts broadcaster Melvyn Bragg could be on this weekend 's list . |
| 21 | Mr Kemp said : ‘ Given the scale and complexity of the closure programme , I think it is going as well for residents and staff as it could be at this stage . ’ |
| 22 | Harriet drove her to the local hospital as soon as the pains started in mid-afternoon and , knowing how hazardous the road back in the dark could be at this time of the year , brought an overnight bag so that she could stay at a nearby hotel . |
| 23 | ‘ You could be in this coffin , your mother could be heartbroken and devastated like Damien 's mother at this time . |
| 24 | If Fen thought she had no other attachments , she 'd be off this boat in double quick time . |
| 25 | ‘ If they all lived , guess how many rats there 'd be in this country in five years . |
| 26 | ‘ At the beginning of the year , I 'd have laughed if you 'd have told me we 'd be in this situation , ’ said Favre . |
| 27 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 28 | The underlying pattern in modern societies may be of this kind too ( Becker 1981 ) . |
| 29 | It may be for this reason that Yugoslav official statistics of trade are frequently expressed in terms of dollars or , strictly speaking , in ‘ statistical ’ dollars . |
| 30 | It may be for this reason that governments committed to full employment are likely to allow the money supply to rise when faced with excessive wage claims or with rising import prices in the economy . |