Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cried and laughed and stared and could not believe it was happening . |
| 2 | One part of her could not believe it was happening , and perhaps that was why she did not resist . |
| 3 | Friends were able to find an alternative , but for a few moments Marilyn said she could not believe it was happening to her and looked about for the dreaded Jeremy Beadle . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think you could honestly say it was going well just now , but it will do soon and that 's all that matters . ’ |
| 5 | But there , something about it was unnerving , yet fascinating ; I could n't believe it was happening . |
| 6 | I could n't believe it was happening , ’ she admits in an interview with The Face . |
| 7 | I could n't believe it was happening . |
| 8 | A minister need only let it be known directly that he would welcome such demonstrations of ‘ spontaneous ’ violent support , or at least would not use police power to suppress it . |
| 9 | When the parties are evenly balanced in the Commons or when the Government has to depend for support upon minority parties , the Prime Minister may well let it be understood that he will not resign or call an election on an adverse vote in the Commons except on an explicit issue of confidence . |
| 10 | I 'll explain it to you , if you 've got to stand in a circle because you ca n't see from over there you wo n't actually ever do this yourself , but you may well see it being done , in fact you probably will . |
| 11 | I mean for instance on the question of identification after 45 years it 's very difficult , I saw that in the Demianuk trial , to get satisfactory er evidence , but of course er I think British rules of evidence probably would simply mean it was excluded if that was the case , and it was fairly done and the law were n't changed and it was the law as it stands er then I 'd be in favour of it . |
| 12 | They say the stage is a respectable profession nowadays , well maybe it is , but I ca n't think it 's changed all that much in the five years since I left . |
| 13 | I ca n't hold it 's killing my back you 'll have to take him ! |
| 14 | I ca n't see it being kept quiet from the press for too long . |
| 15 | He ca n't imagine it being allowed to close . |
| 16 | Whether I pay or go free , whatever the cost , I will not let it be said I killed a decent man to keep him from accusing me . |
| 17 | At the other end of the scale they quite often roll just beneath the surface , and if the water is choppy you will not know it is happening . |
| 18 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 19 | One can only think it is to do with their not addressing the rock . |
| 20 | That such care may well characterize those activities which Scruton declares can not possess it is suggested by Andrew Lumsden 's appropriately passing remark on the casual , anonymous sexual encounter : ‘ for now I can only generalize : as I 've known it , men are never so peaceful , so unviolent ( physically and emotionally ) , so graceful with each other ( no matter how ‘ crude' ’ the act ) as they are — as we are — when content to take each other without the addition of names , or beds , or flats , or even of any clear impression of one-another 's looks ' ( Gay News , 235 ( Mar. 1982 ) , 17 ) . |
| 21 | Trellis is a useful compromise and you can always pretend it was forced on you by the speed of growth of your climbing rose . |
| 22 | If land is not suitable for efficient farming , we can ill afford it being used for inefficient agriculture . |