Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The types of functions allocated between them may be equally haphazard . |
| 2 | Social and practical situations are interactive and pupils ' competence in them may be quite different from their abilities with pen and paper alone . |
| 3 | Branch plants in regions far from head office may be more vulnerable to closure , while the more routine production work which is carried out in them may be more vulnerable to automation than the work done centrally . |
| 4 | I have outlined one possible approach to reading discourses , whether racist or antiracist , which suggests that what is going on in and between them may be more complex and contradictory than is often allowed . |
| 5 | If certain organisational features , their dependence on the human resource and their national recognition are all points in common , differences between them may be more marked , more extensive and more culturally deep rooted . |
| 6 | Some of them may be less careful with it than others so we need machines that can take a battering . |
| 7 | The offences may occur within the family or between acquaintances and to report them may be socially disruptive . |
| 8 | I suppose when a very young infant is adopted , the temptation to the parents to pretend that the child was born to them must be very great . |
| 9 | All of them should be easily obtainable from good garden centres . |
| 10 | One advantage of doing this at this stage is that the reader will probably feel able to devote a little extra effort to learning this terminology as the statements of the theorems themselves will take little remembering — many of them should be fairly familiar to him already . |
| 11 | I may be rather naïve for the big city , but I 'm learning fast . |
| 12 | I equally do n't want to sail into something that is er pretty undesirable and as my Noble Friend Lord Boyd-Carpenter says if we do that then almost certainly I do n't know I may be completely wrong , I 've got enormous faith in the my Right Honourable from my Noble Friend the Chief Whip and even more f faith in all my friends beh behind me whom I know will er go in , in the right direction because they think so erm superb , but My Lords er I would obviously like to see whether there is any way in which we can bridge this divide . |
| 13 | I may be completely wrong . |
| 14 | I may be downright wicked . |
| 15 | ’ I hate to say this , Mr. Kopek , but I think I may be too old to start all over again on something as new as this . |
| 16 | Why is it it seems to me also , and I may be totally wrong here , but it seems people who are least likely to look after themselves are the ones who want to have animals ? |
| 17 | Well it 's just that I may be totally wrong but I just read it first when you read it first it 's like its prey in the light if you see what I mean . |
| 18 | I may be entirely wrong but I 'm going to be reading those when I 'm allowed to put my hands on a copy finally . |
| 19 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
| 20 | I hope that I may be so lucky . |
| 21 | I 'm probably quite wrong about that , but you know , when I think of Matisse and Giacometti and people like that , I ca n't compare them ; I think they fall very much below I may be quite wrong about this below the qualities of Picasso , because I think Picasso has such a very universal sense of things . |
| 22 | ‘ If you ask me , that Jake of yours must be totally blind , not to say crazy . |
| 23 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 24 | However , Joanna and I must be strictly ethical . |
| 25 | I must be fucking suicidal . |
| 26 | It is also fair to say , and I must be up front about this because it is a matter of it is probably the most sensitive aspect of this whole debate , is about B eight warehousing and distribution . |
| 27 | ‘ I must be bloody mad , ’ he groaned to himself . |
| 28 | I must be bloody mad to come out here . ’ |
| 29 | PAMELA : [ generously ] I must be highly unworthy not to forgo all my little resentments for the sake of so much goodness to myself . |
| 30 | At her first interview in a large London teaching hospital , an occupational therapist was told : ‘ I must be perfectly honest , I do n't see any point in showing you round . ’ |