Example sentences of "she [modal v] [be] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think she may be a genuine improvisatrice . ’ |
| 2 | Chrissie is relatively young and inexperienced , and while she may be a hardened liar and criminal , we feel the balance of the probabilities is that she is telling the truth . |
| 3 | ‘ We are concerned she may be a young girl who became pregnant and has not told her parents , or is a young girl in care who ran off and had the baby over the Christmas weekend . |
| 4 | She may be a spiteful piece , but there is no doubt that she has been very badly treated . |
| 5 | So yes your spouse might be getting all your assets , but if you 're going o be seventy five or eighty by the time you 've gone and your spouse is seventy four or seventy nine or whatever , he or she may be a little bit past the running around that 's necessary the actual practicality of it . |
| 6 | ‘ She must be a good friend , ’ said Charlie . |
| 7 | And Jessie listened for a time , but then she said , ‘ But she must be a total stranger . |
| 8 | She must be a professional mourner . |
| 9 | She must be a wonderful woman . |
| 10 | She must be a human person again . |
| 11 | She especially loved any opportunity to contradict those interviewers who assumed that , as the company which bore her name was so successful , she must be an ardent feminist . |
| 12 | Clive thought she might be a rare type of pervert who gets off on vociferously condemning all the vices she actually practises . |
| 13 | Liz Spalding was a hit with the children , which was important to her ; if Weaver did not attack that night , then she might be a regular presence in the house over the next few days , and it was essential that she had the trust and co-operation of the kids as well as Jack and Chrissie Stone themselves . |
| 14 | she 's one of them people who she might be a little bit like hard to talk to at first |
| 15 | Perhaps , if there was a common broody hen in the yard , she might be a steady foster-mother . |
| 16 | Ian had ridden as a boy and he suspected from the way Julia commented that , although she was socially timid , she might be an efficient horsewoman . |
| 17 | Oh god , I think she 'll be a good help for Judith |
| 18 | She 'll be a proper mother , even if the child is n't hers . |
| 19 | Erm what I 'll ask Sophie to do if she 's still going on with it , she 'll be a little bit late , just put a couple of plugs in your ears while I give the answer out . |
| 20 | ‘ No doubt he 'll marry her and she 'll be a fine lady . ’ |
| 21 | With her face she 'll be an old hand at it . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't think that erm , whatever womans sexuality does n't erm mean that she 's not gon na be a good mother , she could be a good mother , she could , you know just depends on the person , on the woman . |
| 23 | She could be a nasty devil in those days . |
| 24 | She could be a little bit of God instead . |
| 25 | ‘ She could be an old friend of Imogen 's . |
| 26 | When she was trained , stop jumping up and things she 'd be a nice dog . |
| 27 | I ca n't give her children , and she 'd be a wonderful mother . ’ |
| 28 | Attracted to the big ape she had n't been , but she 'd be an all-out liar if she tried to pretend she had n't enjoyed his kisses . |
| 29 | She would be a great actress or a great painter , or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 30 | Some day , with average luck , she would be a good writer . |