Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the man who was on the boat with her must be suspect . ’ |
| 2 | Yvonne glances at the pyramid with what might be contempt . |
| 3 | Crime can not be controlled without confronting the issue of what should be crime ; and to say what should be crime is to say what should be controlled . |
| 4 | When we did the raid a quantity of drugs were found : 15 wraps of what could be heroin . |
| 5 | Gandhi actually recognizes the problem of relativity and acknowledges that what may be truth for one may be untruth for another . |
| 6 | If the matter is one the direct outcome of which may be trial of the applicant and his possible punishment for an alleged offence by a court claiming jurisdiction to do so , the matter is criminal . |
| 7 | Selling in bear markets to clients who have some inkling of it can be hell . |
| 8 | Any luck with you would be pot luck would n't it ? |
| 9 | The identification of clients ' presenting problems and the selection of suitable remedies require greater knowledge than this , the foundation of which must be research . |
| 10 | The window and the table/standard lamp behind you should be part of your furnishing scheme . |
| 11 | The police say the majority of people dealing in ecstasy are smart , entrepreneurial types selling to young naive people and they 're charging massive prices for what may be ecstasy , but could be something far more dangerous . |
| 12 | Our purpose remains to develop your company for the benefit of shareholders , together with employees , customers and suppliers — success for one will be success for all . |
| 13 | and this , this guy came for it and , obviously Lynn ca n't say , we do n't want to take a ma man on it 'll be sex discrimination . |
| 14 | And you eat in what is called messes so that you eat in a mess of four and the server comes in and puts a plate of it might be venison and a plate of which is a kind of erm corn and er in front of you . |
| 15 | Adam of Bremen reports that Cnut had intended Swegen to rule Norway , Harthacnut Denmark , and Harold England , and the Historia Regum attributed to Symeon of Durham that he made Harold the English king , but the Encomium says that he not only promised Emma that any son of hers should be heir , but later on oath pledged the whole kingdom subject to him to Harthacnut , who received oaths of loyalty from English nobles . |
| 16 | If you allowed for the shape of two paper-backs , between them and jutting from the end was a two-inch pack of what could be paper money . |