Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May I 'm hopefully going to Italy and , and in June to St Malo |
| 2 | ‘ God , why must I be so clumsy ? ’ |
| 3 | Why else should I be here ? |
| 4 | Alina said , ‘ What time should I be here ? ’ |
| 5 | The need for arousal thought well should I be absolutely calm when I 'm giving a presentation but I never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least I understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it . |
| 6 | I suppose you may say : ‘ Why should I be more green ’ ? and what I say to that is : ‘ I do n't know what the reason is for you but I do know that for me it 's about showing compassion for the planet we live on and trying to hand on as much beauty and good-will as we possibly can to future generations ; while improving our own quality of life . |
| 7 | ‘ Must you be so stupid ? ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ Damnation — must you be so persistent ? |
| 9 | ‘ Must you be so brief ? |
| 10 | Must you be therefore proud and pitiless ? |
| 11 | Why must you be hard hearted ? |
| 12 | It will strengthen your case should you be so infuriated by a label that you decided to take it to your local trading standards officer . |
| 13 | In this respect , we believe it is vital that comprehensive and enforceable planning conditions are legally attached to planning permission , should you be so minded to recommend that permission be given in your report to the Minister of State for Wales . |
| 14 | Why should you be so surprised about that ? ’ |
| 15 | Why should you be so anxious that she should hang ? |
| 16 | Should you be more diligent in the way you apply yourself to the tasks in hand ? |
| 17 | Should we be so up about going on this course or so worried about it ? |
| 18 | Just as selection criteria must be reasonable , so must they be rationally applied . |
| 19 | Nor at the other extreme must they be technically efficient robots . |
| 20 | Why should they be financially penalized because they happen to be sick or disabled ? |
| 21 | Should they be compulsorily edited so as to be accurate and balanced , that is censored ? |
| 22 | Where the time is crucial to the offence the prosecution should be in a position to be able to prove the actual times in that locality from observations , should they be so required . |
| 23 | ‘ Why should they be so upset ? ’ |
| 24 | Why should they be so concerned with the statue 's removal when most other similar monuments erected during the height of the Cultural Revolution had already been demolished ? |
| 25 | The huge Marine — so much more distinguished in his uniform than any motley planetary trooper — planted himself before Yeremi like some human pillar that ten such troopers would be hard put to tumble , should they be so suicidally inclined . |
| 26 | Yet by now Battle Brothers were as mastiffs straining on the leash ; and it began to seem that the cadets might become Scouts in time to participate in the great endeavour , should they be so fortunate . |
| 27 | Why should they be this fierce ? |
| 28 | " And must it be today ? " continued Mama , as if Death had not interrupted her . |
| 29 | If it was so stunniggly desolate here , how must it be farther up , where the cool winds of the North Sea and the warm winds from the Atlantic met , sometimes to roar like a tornado down the Pennine Way ? |
| 30 | Must it be so ? |