Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [subord] [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you there again it 's cheaper than it should be because we 're paying it on VAT , you know , it , er , they must think we 're fools |
| 2 | The unprimed will not necessarily be diagonal as it should be if it is to satisfy the first part of eqn ( 6.16 ) . |
| 3 | it must be when she 's coming . |
| 4 | However , the main reason for mentioning it in this methodological discussion is to show how subtle and fine-grained our analysis must be if we are to give an adequate account of the function of language variation in close-tie communities . |
| 5 | If you develop eye strain it might be because you are reading too close to the printed page . |
| 6 | You said when we bought those bloody birds last Christmas , ‘ I wonder how long it 'll be before we 're yanking all this apart again and halving the furniture and carving up the doves . ’ |
| 7 | it 'll be while you 're settling down rather when it 's your er |
| 8 | You 'll be when they 're gone . |
| 9 | Now how you 'll be when you 're seen as being more of an adapter , or more of an innovator . |
| 10 | If she does well , it 'll be because she 's worked for it . |
| 11 | She already knew how very bull-headed he could be when he was going after something he wanted . |
| 12 | … in-service training is often much less effective than it could be because it is based on an ‘ educational model ’ i.e. is focussed largely on the individual . |
| 13 | This may be because it was intended to be a quick method of banning undesirable consumer trade practices and in practice it turned out not to be very quick at all . |
| 14 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 15 | I wondered how long it would be before I was doing the things portrayed in the photos . |
| 16 | Such contributions are not in themselves illegal , but they would be if they were judged to be bribes . |
| 17 | Just imagine what your reaction would be if you were given a brand new washing machine and told that it had to last you for seventy years or more . |
| 18 | Indeed the Court of Appeal has strongly disapproved of judges telling a defendant what the sentence would be if he were to plead guilty . |
| 19 | Before they had left her flat he had telephoned colleagues to say where he would be if he were needed . |
| 20 | ‘ Or it would be if it was rendered habitable once more . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Only he did n't leave his wife , so Marie O'Donnell returned to Ireland , and because she knew how it would be if it was known she had an illegitimate child she told everyone she was a widow . |
| 22 | In a real sense , our mind or at least , our mind as it truly is , our mind as it would be if it were purged of all individuality , partiality , incompleteness , confusion , emotion and what not , is identical with the total absolute which the business of philosophy is to study . |
| 23 | " A likely thing it would be if I were to give a drink of milk to every beggar who passed through ! " exclaimed the second brother . |
| 24 | Actually , Ruby was considering how well publicized her intervention in the case would be if she were to work from the Post newsroom . |
| 25 | Imagine what the results would be if someone were to base a study of active religious adherence on the laconic entries made under the heading ‘ religion ’ on hospital admission forms in Great Britain ! |
| 26 | Alongside concern about the potential for disastrous accidents there was also a debate about how safe Hinkley C would be when it was operating under ‘ normal ’ conditions . |
| 27 | I knew before I went that I would cry that day , but I thought it would be because he was standing in front of me , not because he was n't standing in front of me . |
| 28 | He says , Every auidience is different we never know what their reaction will be whether they are going to cheer or boo . |
| 29 | We are also very strongly influenced by our expectations ; if we have heard and understood half a sentence , it seems that our brain is already guessing at what the rest of it will be before it is heard , and is certainly not acting in a passive way like a simple machine . |
| 30 | Purely from a financial perspective , have you any idea how much more valuable the cottage will be when it 's known to be one of Piers 's creations ? ’ |