Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 More importantly for for you is that would I be taking a hell of a chance in putting Patrick into selling advertising when the background there is is not necessarily there erm tell me why I should ?
2 If I did this with the intention of deceiving people , would I be telling a lie ?
3 LADY DAVERS : Must I be made a witness to your follies , by heavens ?
4 " I have some evidence — it does n't strictly concern the audit , because , as you say , we 're here officially to find out if the group has any money , not precisely how it 's made — to suggest that the ships can " I be making a profit by legitimate trade .
5 First , could somebody be impersonating a member ?
6 Will you be wanting a cherry ?
7 Will you be offered a contract of employment while attending the course , and what is your position regarding professional indemnity insurance while undertaking clinical practice allocations ?
8 Imagine a world in which gold and silver were cheap but iron and aluminium were rare , what advantages would there be making a car from gold instead of iron and saucepans from silver instead of aluminium .
9 The internal debate was revived as a controversy which ‘ rent the Co-operative Movement for many years ’ : should there be paid a bonus to labour ?
10 ‘ She let herself be made a fool of .
11 why would they be shagging a camel ?
12 And Rover is right : by no stretch of the imagination could it be called a replacement for the dogged Montego because it competes in a different class .
13 It was flanked by two towers and its entrance was reached only by a narrow stairway , but by no stretch of the imagination could it be called a fortress .
14 Well would n't it be making a point if erm everybody who was owed this time took it regardless
15 Should it be exhibiting a work which , in all probability , was obtained from its legal owner by fraudulent means ?
16 I told him what I said to you on the phone about should n't he be given a bit more obvious humanity because priests are n't great box-office nowadays and Vic said we 'd talk about it nearer the time .
17 and he be 'd a fire engine
18 ‘ Will he be having a party ? ’
19 I understand that Mr. Millan is a socialist ; could he be making a party political point ?
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