Example sentences of "[be] [num] [conj] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counting the days and months until he would be twenty-one and could join Daisy and Joszef , happily settled in New York now . |
| 2 | To qualify for travel concessions you have to be 60 and will have to give proof by showing your pension book or a special card . |
| 3 | ‘ When I 'm eighteen and can do what I like , I 'll eat all my cakes uncooked , ’ Benny pronounced . |
| 4 | The first commandment is ‘ Thou shalt remember that the Essence and We are One and should strive towards that proper integration . ’ |
| 5 | I am 15 and will shortly be taking a Grade 5 speech and drama exam , in which I intend to read one of the two poems . |
| 6 | In 1970 — if you were eighteen and could lay your hands on a little ready money — it was almost de rigueur to travel overland to Greece where , in an idyllic island setting , you could hang out in the coolest way imaginable with amiable drug-dealers and liberated chicks . |
| 7 | The head girl , Nikki Carmichael , who is 18 and will be participating tomorrow in the poll proper , thought he was marvellous and said he could have her vote any time . |
| 8 | The community reaction to mining in Ireland over the last two decades is one that can be presented in an almost linear , chronological fashion . |
| 9 | Reppion , who is 15 and will fight in the 57k class , has also been chosen to represent England schoolboys in a match in Russia next month . |
| 10 | ‘ I am married with two sons , Freddie , who is four and will soon be starting school , and Henri , who is 10 months . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd been a partner for 10 years , I was 43 and could see another 17 years of PW partnership ahead of me . |
| 12 | She was twenty-three and could push down a house or build one , it was a glorious day and she was going to a party and sitting beside Matthew Preston . |
| 13 | But he was 72 and would be 73 by the time he had to move if he moved . |