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 Clive thought she might be a rare type of pervert who gets off on vociferously condemning all the vices she actually practises .
12 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 .
13 she 's one of them people who she might be a little bit like hard to talk to at first
14 Perhaps , if there was a common broody hen in the yard , she might be a steady foster-mother .
15 Oh god , I think she 'll be a good help for Judith
16 She 'll be a proper mother , even if the child is n't hers .
17 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 .
18 ‘ No doubt he 'll marry her and she 'll be a fine lady . ’
19 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 .
20 She could be a nasty devil in those days .
21 She could be a little bit of God instead .
22 When she was trained , stop jumping up and things she 'd be a nice dog .
23 I ca n't give her children , and she 'd be a wonderful mother . ’
24 She would be a great actress or a great painter , or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister .
25 Some day , with average luck , she would be a good writer .
26 She would be a good mother but he 's not a child .
27 She would be a good actress .
28 She would be a gold-wrapped parcel , hard and shining on the outside , soft and tempting on the inside .
29 He not only believed that she would be a willing accessory to his two-timing Cavell , but that Cavell either would n't realise what was happening or would n't mind if she did .
30 It appears that he published Mary Leapor not only because he thought she would be a commercial success , but because he admired her work .
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