Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes she was fiery , or she could be ice cool : qualities that intrigued the male in Angus , although they disturbed the businessman . |
| 2 | This is particularly true of regulations in heavily regulated fields such as agriculture , where they may be part of a long string of related measures or be limited to implementing a regulation of broader scope . |
| 3 | Or they might be turkey ones , I go to Kwiksave |
| 4 | There has to be an incredible amount of subtlety or it would be nonsense . ’ |
| 5 | Either Doctor Who would be drama , or it would be adventure . |
| 6 | This may be a specialist unit trust company or it may be part of some other large financial grouping , a subsidiary of a retail or merchant bank for example . |
| 7 | Or it may be music , as in Mussorgsky 's composition which he entitled ‘ Pictures from an Exhibition ’ . |
| 8 | Or it may be childhood , as in the wonderful title story of her previous collection , ‘ On the Golden Porch ’ ( ‘ In the beginning was the garden . |
| 9 | Or it may be testimony relevant to the present conversation . |
| 10 | It may be motivation that proves inadequate or it may be investment . |
| 11 | Basically , we can not afford to leave anything lying around , not even for an instant , or it will be history . |
| 12 | It is sometimes a mild complaint , with occasional acute bouts — or it can be source of constant pain and discomfort . |
| 13 | Or it can be fear of a major loss , like health or even life itself , either for yourself or those you love . |
| 14 | Or it could be part of the training sessions , let's have what we were doing yesterday , skill drills , but you 've got to practice it and practice it , until eventually from those forty contacts using a ratio of ten to one , we get four appointments . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a pity that Stephen has met this girl who seems to want his every free minute or he 'd be company for you . ’ |
| 16 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
| 17 | Later it had to be accepted that she would be wheelchair bound for the rest of her life . |
| 18 | Her plans were overthrown the first day when the president requested that she should be chaplain . |
| 19 | We hope that you will be bale to come and we look forward to meeting you then . |
| 20 | Of course we have the additional complication that the over- large government bureaucracy 's at present run by a political party which seems to have given up thinking about anything much other than staying in power and I know and hope that you will be part of thinking about much more than that , but still even with a large union , you could regulate concentrate on stimulating the grass roots and then on building upwards . |
| 21 | Well we 'll get carbon dioxide off , so you might be iridium carbonate or ytterbium , we 've got a powder which may be ytterbium car carbonate or ytterbium sulphate and you never heard of this stuff , ah carbonate carbonate and maybe , maybe ytterbium carbonate does n't give off carbon dioxide with acid , but there is a very good chance it does cos all the others you 've ever heard about do . |
| 22 | I 'm wurkin hard and lurning to be a sailor , so you can be prowd of me . |
| 23 | It seems to me that all that we would be doing would be substituting one area for another in effect in terms of where that development is attracted from . |
| 24 | The translucent message from the corridors of power , in Europe and in Whitehall , is that a single currency will be established , and that we shall be part of it . |
| 25 | Following the December 1991 European Community summit at Maastricht , there is a consensus among all three major UK parties that we must be part of the process leading to monetary union . |
| 26 | erm So therefore , we 're embarking on a new area if you like , in so far as not just sponsorship , but erm willingness to participate in a friendly environment , and I would hope that we can be part of that . |
| 27 | The objection was that we can be right or wrong in what we judge , but that it makes no sense to talk of something imprinted , an impression or sensation , being right or wrong . |
| 28 | No , so we should be age thirty four , and it should have non-smoker at the top , so it 's right at the front , the commonest mistake is to look up smokers in non-smokers , and non-smokers in smokers . |
| 29 | Thus , although they may be braille readers , they are not totally blind children and should be encouraged to use what vision they have in the learning situation . |
| 30 | Cassie could n't see her eyes , but she was sure that they would be almond shaped and green , to go with the sexy red hair and double-cream complexion . |