Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be [verb] that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , by the third sub-maxim of Manner ( " be brief " ) , wherever I avoid some simple expression in favour of some more complex paraphrase , it may be assumed that I do not do so wantonly , but because the details are somehow relevant to the present enterprise . |
| 2 | ( It may be objected that I am taking far too earnest a view of a wonderfully comic fictional character . |
| 3 | It should be noted that I am concentrating here on ‘ further treatment ’ and therefore assume a pre-existing relationship between the doctor and the patient . |
| 4 | The first question which an egoist might raise is why it should be assumed that I can not be aware from another 's viewpoint without being moved towards his goals . |
| 5 | As some of his remarks in the Criterion commentaries made clear , he was not hostile to the idea of Empire , ‘ whatever the Daily Express may say ’ ; and if this should rouse the indignation of anti-imperialists , it should be realized that I am talking about a bygone era , since which the world-scene has been transformed , and the term colonialism is now employed usually in the service of invective . |
| 6 | Now it might be objected that I am talking here about language knowledge and not communicative behaviour , about how grammar might be learned and not about the development of a language using ability . |
| 7 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 8 | I quote from my account of it in a letter to Elizabeth , ten years later : it will be seen that I am answering her questions . |
| 9 | When I develop that thesis it will be seen that I agree with McDowell as to the intrinsic attractiveness or repulsiveness of value qualities . |
| 10 | It will be seen that I have to arrive at figures in respect of damages in this case under a number of heads . |
| 11 | It will be noticed that I refer only to those cases where the patient , or someone on his behalf , has made his view known . |
| 12 | ‘ Look not so dismayed , I pray you — or it will be construed that I have made some unwelcome proposal . ’ |