Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience and readership profiles of the various media will help to ermine which of them should be included on your list 1 which can be safely left out . |
| 2 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 3 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 4 | If I read Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice and notice the anti-semitism which surrounds the character of Shylock , I may be bothered by it , even condemn Shakespeare for his anti-semitism . |
| 5 | Oh , somethin' should be done with her . |
| 6 | But I must be guided by you , sir . ’ |
| 7 | I told myself , if there is any justice in the world I should be punished for it . |
| 8 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 9 | It was logical really that I should be brought from my anonymous safe house to the Hezbollah 's Hay Madi barracks . |
| 10 | I did not really have the heart for such things , but I knew I should be interrogated on my return , and I was aware that she was merely trying hard to push me into normal post-war life . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I 'll be pilloried for it , ’ he says . |
| 12 | If they have been so informed , I would be very grateful if I could be told on what date they were told . |
| 13 | ‘ Is there anything I could be told about it ? ’ |
| 14 | I think I could be excused for my mistake . |
| 15 | I 'd be prepared for you to go fortnightly . |
| 16 | They are always around me … to be honest , I 'd be lost without them . ’ |
| 17 | They are always around me … to be honest , I 'd be lost without them . ’ |
| 18 | She 's also a friend and I 'd be lost without her . |
| 19 | I 'd be left with nothing ! ’ |
| 20 | I 'd be left without you . |
| 21 | Every day for three weeks I 'd be taken from my cell in the old colonial prison , from the cool , noisome darkness into the harsh day of Danu . |
| 22 | But I love them , I would be lost without them . |
| 23 | I used at times to feel somewhat worried when she would play the supremely confident coquette with me and I would be enthralled by her charms , but then I came to the conviction , some time ago , that such moments of relatedness could only be nourishing for her developing personality as well as delightful to me . |
| 24 | It , it depends on , on your individual circu , if your sister has a baby for you , she 's unlikely to say that I would be recompensed for my loss of earnings . |
| 25 | ‘ If my hair is responsible , then I shall be rid of it ! ’ she cried , and swung aloft the scissors which her fingers had found . |
| 26 | One day in the future , the treacherous Deems-figure who arrives to make the test will employ an argument so sophisticated that I shall be convinced by it , and enter the Emperor 's Council Room and kill him . ’ |
| 27 | When it appears I shall be launched into my next piece of work . |
| 28 | I also hope that by paying tax I will be seen as what I am — a hardworking woman with a contribution to make to the moral and practical well-being of the country . |
| 29 | Leaning back against a tree trunk , as though to draw strength from it , she announced in a suddenly firm voice , ‘ I will be rid of you . |
| 30 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |