Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [be] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember thinking that if Andy Norman believed I could be Europe 's top sprinter , if he had such faith in me , well then maybe I could . |
| 2 | Perhaps I could be Eric 's stunt man , standing in when he turns on the flash dangerous stuff that terrifies the defenders in his wake and makes them have a go like David Burrows did . |
| 3 | If I wanted an easy job I 'd be Markie 's hairdresser , or for a demanding career how about Corky 's zit cream ? |
| 4 | One of them could be Swindon 's own Duncan Shearer , who 's been scoring goals this season as though they were going out of fashion . |
| 5 | As he was wondering whether to proceed further or retreat a woman appeared , possibly Minton 's mother , who said , ‘ Ah , hullo , you must be Johnny 's latest boyfriend . ’ |
| 6 | Remembering Lucy Lane 's description , he felt sure that she must be Anna 's mother . |
| 7 | Sarah guessed she must be James 's wife , and thought she looked like the pink jelly which wobbled on a dish near the salmon . |
| 8 | You will be Deauville 's first architect after all . ’ |
| 9 | But almonds , while they may be California 's forte and Renshaw 's prime product , are hardly the most difficult of nuts . |
| 10 | ‘ They would be child 's play in the modern world to get around . |
| 11 | Seven years from now they will be Britain 's top importers . |
| 12 | In practice , as we have seen above , it may be people 's own anticipation of lender distaste for these circumstances , rather than decision by the lenders themselves , which dumps people in this credit ghetto . |
| 13 | DID Bill & Ted ‘ s Excellent Adventure make you laugh enough to be Comedy Video or do you think it should be Blackadder 's Christmas Carol ? |
| 14 | That it should be Hampshire 's good fortune to see this show first was due to good friends of the Horseshoe Theatre Company who had heard there was such a musical and the linkage with the Horseshoe 's artistic director , Adrian Reynolds was made . |
| 15 | It should be Bowe 's last defence until November when he is expected to fight Evander Holyfield in a rematch . |
| 16 | I accept he believes he should be England 's fly-half . |
| 17 | ‘ I am very happy with the way I am playing but I accept that he believes he should be England 's fly-half . |
| 18 | I realized he must be Catherine 's nephew , Hareton , and tried to shake his hand . |
| 19 | ‘ He must be Britain 's friendliest driver . |
| 20 | He must be Britain 's friendliest driver . |
| 21 | I am not very sure what 's wrong with her but I can tell by the way they start discussing the weather when I come into the room that it must be Women 's Trouble . |
| 22 | I think it must be Tod 's questions that eventually put them off . |
| 23 | On that view it must be man 's deepest desire — need ? — purpose ? — satisfaction ? — to live in the way that is in this objective sense appropriate to him ( the fact that modern words break up into these alternatives expresses the modern break-up of Aristotle 's view ) . |
| 24 | Do n't make the mistake of thinking that it must be cow 's milk , just because this is the food problem that we hear about most often in babies . |
| 25 | Well it makes sense cos it must be Jackie 's . |
| 26 | If the paragraphs quoted do contain anything to gripe at seriously , it must be Treebeard 's opening sentence , with its oddly redundant phrase , ‘ by stock or by stone ’ . |
| 27 | Ah it must be Father 's Day then . |
| 28 | After that the total amounts , or even a bit more if we look at it , erm , what over factor , Janet , no John , it must be John 's turn now , affects the allocation to units in those first four years by looking at that table . |
| 29 | He 'll be Mueller 's European components ’ Planning Manager in Detroit . ’ |
| 30 | He 's now 41 and with a couple more deals he 'll be Britain 's youngest ever self-made billionaire . |