Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't got anything else to say so could I be chairperson please ? |
| 2 | ‘ Shall I be mother and pour or d' you want me to disappear while you two talk Jockey Club business . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Shall I be mother ? ’ she looked at Ven to enquire . |
| 4 | But will she be second on goal difference above Masham Reserves ? |
| 5 | There 's a waiting list of three after the first ten and I do n't see why you should n't persuade Ryan to let you be No. 4 on that . |
| 6 | Do n't you be downtrodden Muriel . |
| 7 | If all the talk is about position all we might hear would be equivalent to ‘ You be number 33 ’ , ‘ OK , you be 32 and I 'll tell my neighbour to be 34 ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ What will you be doing for her ? ’ |
| 9 | Should you be pleb enough to require chips with breakfast , remember to ask for fries . |
| 10 | His Postscript evokes the aim of a white-coated Doctor Kundera ‘ to solve an aesthetic problem : how to write a novel which would be a ‘ critique of poetry ’ and yet at the same time would itself be poetry ’ . |
| 11 | Even a kind of guerrilla warfare is enjoyed and can in itself be life sustaining ( Mattinson and Sinclair , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | The intrinsic value of the ball , in contrast — say its beauty — would follow from the intrinsic nature made up of such properties but not itself be part of that in virtue of which two balls might be exactly alike . |
| 13 | A decision that jurisdiction exists is always a logically necessary precondition to the exercise of jurisdiction : because it is logically prior to the exercise of jurisdiction , it can not in itself be part of the exercise of jurisdiction . |
| 14 | ( e ) Projections Prima facie an external feature ( whether ornamental or not ) fixed to an external wall enclosing the demise will itself be part of the demised property ( Sturge v Hackett ) . |
| 15 | Let me be mysen , and let me feel as if tha' wor littler than me ! dunna ma'e me feel sma' , an' down ! — else I canna stop wi' thee . |
| 16 | Let them be reshod . ’ |
| 17 | For example , the stipulated interest rate that applies , should there be delay in completion , may be too high . |
| 18 | There be liberty to the … |
| 19 | If he is convicted of this crime [ this ] punishment follows : the loss of members , that there be member for member for when a virgin is defiled she loses her member and therefore let her defiler be punished in the parts in which he offended . |
| 20 | Will there be protection for those who have served in the Territorial Army for some 10 years , so that they may be allowed to complete their service and receive their TA decorations ? |
| 21 | How can there be consistency , perhaps , between Judge and Jury and the magistrate system ? |
| 22 | It was July 1986 and the great god of the Manchester music scene , Factory Records supremo Tony Wilson said , ‘ Let there be nostalgia , ’ and indeed the entire city was swamped with punk nostalgia . |
| 23 | Peter himself , robing in the vestry at Quindale for the last of the special Lent evening services — theme : ‘ Can there be change without sacrifice in a Christian world ? ’ — was not thinking of Daniel Byrne . |
| 24 | This is not the case , so the fourth criterion must require that there be provision for major change in the main classes in order to reflect : |
| 25 | Can there be honour by degree ? |
| 26 | Will there be flexibility , or bureaucracy ? |
| 27 | In order to allow time for attendance in court to represent the client , office administration probably demands that there be separation of preparation and advocacy . |
| 28 | How can there be freedom , when people such as your father and mother are murdered for believing in something ? ’ |
| 29 | Over lunch , over dinner , overheard in corridors it was a case of : ‘ Will there be consensus on homosexuals as POCs ? ’ |
| 30 | Why , should there be conflict over parental investment , because after all , children are the link product of success of their parents , so shortly child and parent have got exactly the same self interest have n't they ? |