Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The medieval warrior was what some today would call a drone : however necessary his protection might be or might seem to his peasant tenants and neighbours , and however much the enterprise of individual warriors may have fertilized the economy , he was not personally engaged in making a livelihood for himself and his family . |
| 2 | I think you have to evolve , develop quite a lot of detective sense , to meet people , to imagine where could further letters be that would help me , and you have to charm your way virtually into those houses , and persuade the people erm to let you look at Grandfather 's letters in the trunk in the attic . |
| 3 | Could be that let's have a look at the first year , the first year , I just want to survive . |
| 4 | May be that will identify things for you . |
| 5 | ‘ I do not know what the final outcome will be and would stress that there is no obvious solution at this point , but at least we now have adequate time to look at all the alternatives . ’ |
| 6 | We appreciate what a stumbling block this can be and will lend you 100% as a first time buyer . |
| 7 | Conscious manipulation of tears is very rare , although most women acknowledged how powerful tears can be and could remember the odd occasion on which they had been used as a weapon when all else failed . |
| 8 | If Miss T. was a baptised and practising member of the Jehovah 's Witnesses she would be likely to refuse a blood transfusion or other treatment involving the giving of blood whatever the consequences might be but would accept substitutes if available . |
| 9 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |