Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may be Morrissey ridiculing the entire music business , cheapening it even , but , in doing so , he was merely ridiculing himself . |
| 2 | Further investigation suggests that while that may be part of the story it is almost certainly not all of it . |
| 3 | That may be part of her gutteral language : it is certainly not part of mine . |
| 4 | That may be part of some bigger game going on about busting unions in Germany , we 're not green about that , but again the same question arises in the interrogation . |
| 5 | If more red than green members of a species of moth living on green foliage are being killed by predators , that may be selection ; but only if the predators are not colour-blind ; if they are it is random sampling error . |
| 6 | So , too , if you shift my bicycle from a public stand in order to get at your own , and forget to replace mine so that it is stolen by someone , that may be trespass , but it is not conversion . |
| 7 | They even say there is protein , but that may be propaganda . ’ |
| 8 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 9 | What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger . |
| 10 | So , a 1 metre ( 39in ) parachute has a circumference of 314cm ( 123in ) and , if we are to use 14 gores , then each must be 22.4cm ( 8¾in ) wide at the base plus the hem which will be about 1 cm or 0.4in . |
| 11 | It is a mood resembling nothing , perhaps , in literature , on a long view , unless of Aristophanic comedy ; but that must be coincidence . |
| 12 | That must be bliss . |
| 13 | That must be DOPACS units . |
| 14 | When the rules take full effect at the end of 1992 , banks will have to back every commercial loan with capital equal to 8% of the loan 's value ; half of that must be share capital or disclosed reserves ( ‘ core ’ capital ) . |
| 15 | Thirty six so that must be G E D must n't it ? |
| 16 | Oh Lord , that must be Anthony , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ROS : That must be east , then . |
| 18 | When the old man had wandered upstairs again , with a book under his arm , Clara whispered " Who Was that ? " and even as she Whispered she realized that it could be no other than the book shops owner , and added hastily , " That must be A. I Warbley , I suppose ? " |
| 19 | Yes well you said something , you said complete , I 'm sure that must be complement . |
| 20 | That must be Guido . |
| 21 | ‘ That must be Vulcan , Sir John Dacourt 's destrier , ’ Benjamin remarked . |
| 22 | ‘ That must be room service with our coffee . ’ |
| 23 | That must be kids in n it ? |
| 24 | Five fifty must be students , eight fifty must be |
| 25 | ‘ I suspect , ’ she said , shifting a little to recover firmer standing , ‘ that should be Professor Hambro ? |
| 26 | That should be evidence enough . ’ |
| 27 | For example the land at Skelton Hall could be regarded as open land but no one is suggesting that that should be part of the greenbelt . |
| 28 | It 's a matter of having that faith , that should be Jehovah in Romans chapter ten , verse thirteen , it 's a matter of working out to , for logic of the original verse which it came from , cos that 's been quoted has n't it ? |
| 29 | And it makes it easier for the slash-and-burn cultivators to get in rather than sort of coming in gradually round the edges , there are now great swathes cut through tropical rainforest at Amazonia certainly , and the Trans-Scabon railway is about to be put through which again will make it easier for the sort of to come in , and I think that should be bourn in mind . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , that should be time enough . |