Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [modal v] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one can not be the favourite oneself , at all events nobody else shall be the favourite . |
| 2 | Indeed , to suppress them or even to cut them short could be the cause of many problems in the future . |
| 3 | Self is the lord of self , who else could be the Lord ? |
| 4 | If , as Anthony Giddens suggests in Central Problems in Social Theory ( 1979 ) , one of the characteristics of ideology is that it makes the present appear natural , then this something else may be the province of ideology . |
| 5 | Cricket director Bob Cottam said : ‘ Leaving him out would be the equivalent of dumping a batsman who had made a hundred on his Test debut . ’ |
| 6 | What would have happened , she wondered , if she 'd told the woman the truth , that it just might be the end of the world , that she could n't keep going through the days this way , plodding from home to work and back again , with nothing to devote her energies to , nothing to occupy her thoughts — except Nicolo , and how much she despised him ? |
| 7 | It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good . |
| 8 | It really must be the cutting edge of the climbing fraternity that decides the ethics — those who are active at the forefront of climbing development . |
| 9 | Whether or not that is the case , the problem here is not that Jesus was a man , but that this man has been considered unique , symbolic of God , God Himself- or whatever else may be the case within Christianity . |