Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realise you can not afford to run all the time but , that said , it should still be the first thing you have a look at , ’ he reasoned . |
| 2 | But Lightbody must surely be the first not to get a senior trial in his year as Irish singles champion . |
| 3 | During that time it has had numerous facelifts , and in what must surely be the last of its nine lives , the Big Cat has had another . |
| 4 | So I do n't think there will be a big national impact , it 'll just be the last few people coming in at the tail end . |
| 5 | Insensitive handling of cash-flow by Accounts might just be the last straw to turn a key person away from you when you need him or her the most . |
| 6 | It 'll probably be the last wind I shall ever feel . |
| 7 | It might even be the last time she stood there . |
| 8 | ‘ Thanks , Henry , ’ he would say , in a tone that indicated this might well be the last drink he would be accepting from his friend , ‘ thanks ! ’ |
| 9 | Partnership structures — in industry , education , physical and community development of all sorts — may possibly be the last chance to catch up before it is too late . |
| 10 | By rights , Razorblade Smile could easily be the Next Big Thing . |
| 11 | A final significance here is that Klementiev 's silver medal could possibly be the last ever to be won by the USSR . |
| 12 | You 'd probably be the first person to respond if someone wrote in and said ‘ everybody with short hair and who conforms should be banned from gigs ’ which is basically what you wrote , only vice versa . |
| 13 | You 'd probably be the first person to respond if someone wrote in and said ‘ everybody with short hair and who conforms should be banned from gigs ’ which is basically what you wrote , only vice versa . |
| 14 | It is possible that this , the second showing of the collection in Russia , could also be the last . |
| 15 | Not only would our livelihood be at stake if there was a shutdown but we 'd also be the first to be irradiated . ’ |
| 16 | Size of the mortgage , that could well be the first point of call is n't it ? |
| 17 | Tonight could well be the last service Herr Fedorov performs for us . |
| 18 | Tragically , it could well be the last of all . |
| 19 | This could well be the last winner Simpson sends out from Foxhill Stables at Wanborough , Swindon . |
| 20 | Rupert Murdoch told the annual meeting in Adelaide : ‘ This may well be the first year in some years when our earnings do not show their customary increase . ’ |
| 21 | This may well be the first fusion process used in a reactor , but there can also be fusion between deuterons alone or between deuterons and nuclei of helium-3 . |
| 22 | More fun is to be had with the excitable Katch-22 , who favours the talking-about-himself approach to rap and a wider range of noises , most notably on the sprightly ‘ Service With A Smile ’ , which may well be the first tune ever to contain the line ‘ You paedophile ’ . |
| 23 | The positioning of the boiler may well be the first consideration . |
| 24 | He received a walkover into the final when Richard Krajicek , who may well be the next ‘ known ’ to win Wimbledon , withdrew with tendinitis in his right shoulder . |
| 25 | Pop is hysteria , a neurotic symptom of what may well be the last days of Western capitalism . |
| 26 | So Britain may well be the last place engineers from the impoverished Third World come to train , or to buy telecommunications equipment . |
| 27 | The hardest loss for many is to move ultimately from their own home to a home for the elderly , a move which they recognize may well be the last one they will ever make , and which forces them to confront their own death . |
| 28 | Everybody 's aware that this may well be the last Gen , the last Party Conference before the General Election , and what is more , of , an impression of the terrific progress that the Labour Party 's made in recent years , and further gains over the last year in terms of public support , so that we really are on the threshold of a General Election campaign which we realistically hope to win , and we 've got the policies in place to meet the needs of the nation for the nineties . |
| 29 | Of course the converse can be said , as several knobbly and bow-legged clerics would humbly be the first to acknowledge . |
| 30 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |