Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who subscribe to them and are honoured by reference to them may be thought of with contempt by those for whom the underlife is the serious basis of social living . |
| 2 | ‘ TB , ’ he muttered , ‘ I must be dying of love . ’ |
| 3 | The message in the words sounded ominous to Joe 's ears , and he straightened up and said , ‘ Tell Harry I 'll be thinking of him and I hope he 'll be home soon . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll be thinking of you , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ I know I 'll be accused of just being another whingeing manager . |
| 6 | But I 'd better not keep on like this or I 'll be accused of queering Mr Karlinsky 's pitch . |
| 7 | I suppose I could be accused of damning with faint praise . |
| 8 | Sometimes at the Dispatch Box the Minister displays not just a cocky attitude — on occasions I could be accused of that myself — but almost an arrogant attitude . |
| 9 | ‘ But I could be accused of negligence ! |
| 10 | I would n't enjoy myself anyway , I expect , I 'd be thinking of you . |
| 11 | Then I would be accused of being a racist , take this for example , I was down at lower school , I had a black girl in my class , she did something or another . |
| 12 | And this is why I think the approach that Harrogate would perhaps be thinking of and we ourselves would be thinking of if this is the way we wanted to go is simply to go out and get a site and get planning permission on it . |
| 13 | ‘ If my hair is responsible , then I shall be rid of it ! ’ she cried , and swung aloft the scissors which her fingers had found . |
| 14 | ‘ I know , ’ she replied , ‘ I shall be thinking of that poor man and his little boy all night . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I will be thinking of you all and wishing you continued good fortune with your worthwhile venture , ’ said Sharron , who was the star of a promotional video used to raise funds towards the pool reopening . |
| 16 | Leaning back against a tree trunk , as though to draw strength from it , she announced in a suddenly firm voice , ‘ I will be rid of you . |
| 17 | Here someone can be advised of the systems available . |
| 18 | In understanding the effects which may be observed of subjective risk in everyday driving the most important studies are likely to be those using moderate levels of arousal . |
| 19 | By seeing the failures of women as sins which may be repented of , rather than the unalterable course of nature , she advances a far more positive view of her sex than does Pope . |
| 20 | They are typical of the kind of factual information which may be expected of children and could be paralleled elsewhere . |
| 21 | It is tempting to point , as a common feature of enterprises such as these , to the fact that they are ‘ single-function ’ entities ( in contrast to central government and agencies of horizontal devolution which may be thought of as multi-function ) . |
| 22 | One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ . |
| 23 | It does not include problems which may be thought of as on the fringe of sexual considerations such as unmarried motherhood , neurotic guilt about sex or non-sexual marital dissonance , although all of these may in themselves stimulate sexual difficulty . |
| 24 | The second , which may be thought of as the ‘ efficient markets ’ theory , is called the ‘ substitution hypothesis ’ . |
| 25 | It consists of a set of vertices , which may be thought of as marking off temporal units along the x axis , and a set of edges linking these vertices . |
| 26 | A parameter entity is an SGML construct which may be thought of in simple terms as like a variable declaration in a programming language : the effect of using them here is that each base tag set can provide its own specific definition for the constituents of texts , which can , moreover be modified by the user . |
| 27 | This may in part be explained by one half of the reciprocity taking the form of labour services and trade in consumables ; a large proportion of the goods which may be considered of high value by reason of the distance over which the raw materials had been transported , and their resulting rarity , may have been given for services , gifts or payments for work , what may be termed institutional exchange . |
| 28 | He said : the more unreasonable a clause is , the greater the notice which must be given of it . |
| 29 | Britain now produces nearly 26 million tons per year of domestic garbage which must be disposed of somewhere , somehow . |
| 30 | It was perhaps precisely because both sovereigns were well aware of the criticisms which might be made of their Court that in order to fulfil their public roles in accordance with the aims which they had set themselves , they worked to make of it a thing of great splendour . |