Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM . |
| 2 | We will continue to look at er the future programme er we will also as you know , look at ballistic missile defence which is another element to this and that must need to be fact facted in as well but I think clearly we are not talking about in the medium term er and longer term , we are talking about er a fairly late stage of the programme . |
| 3 | What you should look for is evidence of good , consistent results over a period of 10 to 20 years . |
| 4 | Another way to cope with the day is for the pro to enter totally into the spirit of it all : like the perfect publican , he must try to be arbiter , philosopher , psychologist and friend , all rolled into one . |
| 5 | Ideally you should aim to be number one which is achieved by mauling with other boxers — hopefully in the ring . |
| 6 | If this procedure is the most appropriate way of correcting market failure and of otherwise setting the requisite ‘ sociopolitical limits on the exercise of economic rationality ’ then it would seem to follow that the goal of companies should continue to be profit maximisation , within the relevant constraints . |
| 7 | It proposed that the maximum for rape should continue to be life imprisonment and the maximum for non-consensual buggery where the victim was over 16 should be raised from ten years to life imprisonment . |
| 8 | Decay may also extend beyond the damaged area , and although timber may appear to be sound , it may cause problems later . |
| 9 | Okay , so er what have we got there erm use supports use of support yeah material another thing you might think about is time . |
| 10 | She and Rufus and Adam himself had all been putting forward the names of people they knew who might want to be part of a commune , likely people of the right sort of age and the right sort of temperament . |
| 11 | ‘ What a pity your father is so set against accepting what he might consider to be charity from Tamar . |
| 12 | Well it 'll have to be school dinners Friday , is that what you 've ? |
| 13 | Thing is , they 'll have to be redone , and quite sharpish . |
| 14 | Yeah it 'll have to be count . |
| 15 | It 'll have to be cowardice ’ |
| 16 | It 'll have to be cash . |
| 17 | No , that 'll have to be number sixteen . |
| 18 | When a waiter asked me , and the people I was eating with , sentence ( 2 ) in Task 2 , we understood him , even though , in textbook terms , his words might seem to be nonsense . |
| 19 | ‘ All grist to our mill , ’ said McAllister cheerfully , never thinking that Mr Sands 's grand relations might prove to be Nemesis , arriving in group form , to smoke out Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall , American heiress and the ambassador 's niece , the Marquess of Blaine 's one-time intended , AKA — also known as — in the language of American police reports — Miss Sally-Anne McAllister , skivvy and Dr Neil 's fiancée . |
| 20 | I am worried that many students may convert to being part time rather than full time , simply because they can not afford to be full-time students . |
| 21 | ‘ Not the sort of chap you 'd want to be captain of a team . ’ |
| 22 | All I could think of was Sleet without me in the autumn . |
| 23 | Roger suddenly launched into this discussion about how they 'd identified the need for someone to join the team with a view to becoming a main board member ; this person would effectively release him from a lot of the day-to-day public company responsibilities and the accounting , reporting and auditing areas , so that he could focus on being part of the entrepreneurial team , organising financing and liaising with the City . |
| 24 | really well you know I always think sometimes you 'd like to be sort of be crazy would n't you ? |
| 25 | ‘ I think he 'd like to be Pope , ’ she told them with a sort of weary insight . |
| 26 | While Mary Tudor lived , the Protestants in Scotland had never actually given up , but as long as England as well as France and Spain was Catholic , all they could hope for was survival ; and there was no point in preferring an English alliance to a French one . |
| 27 | you 'd have to be study you know time and that there , ooh I know it 's a grand thing is education lessons , but |
| 28 | All I could admit to was boredom , and the belief that school was more fun . |
| 29 | There are a number of reasons for thinking that such information transmission may be easier to manage if it occurs within firms than if it is subject to market transactions , and this means that there is a case for thinking that R&D activities ( particularly the D ) may have to be part of a vertically related structure that extends back into important input markets , and forward into downstream consumer markets ( see Teece , 1986 , Geroski , 1992 , and Jorde and Teece , 1990 , who apply these arguments to the antitrust treatment of co-operative R&D ventures ) . |
| 30 | This kind of crying may have to be relearnt by those whose early life experiences have distorted their natural capacity . |