Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb mod] 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 | Or they might be turkey ones , I go to Kwiksave |
| 3 | There has to be an incredible amount of subtlety or it would be nonsense . ’ |
| 4 | Either Doctor Who would be drama , or it would be adventure . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Or it may be music , as in Mussorgsky 's composition which he entitled ‘ Pictures from an Exhibition ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Or it may be testimony relevant to the present conversation . |
| 9 | It may be motivation that proves inadequate or it may be investment . |
| 10 | Basically , we can not afford to leave anything lying around , not even for an instant , or it will be history . |
| 11 | It is sometimes a mild complaint , with occasional acute bouts — or it can be source of constant pain and discomfort . |
| 12 | Or it can be fear of a major loss , like health or even life itself , either for yourself or those you love . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | You be mummy ( to Simon ) and I 'll be baby because mine are the smallest . |
| 16 | I will sprinkle clean water upon you , and you shall be dean from all your uncleannesses , and from all your idols I will cleanse you . |
| 17 | I think , you know , the erm the Tourist Boards have taken the industry by the scruff of the neck and said look you must have standards , you must have quality , and you must be price competitive . |
| 18 | ‘ An inch either way and you 'd be history , so I hear . |
| 19 | If she married Pogo , she could do exactly as she pleased and she would be mistress of her own home . |
| 20 | ‘ And we 'll be hyggelig ? ’ |
| 21 | So whatever verb is chosen will determine what functional predicate/argument structure is created — for HIT , it will be HIT ( AGENT , GOAL , INSTRUMENT ) because part of the lexical specification for the verb HIT is that it must have three arguments and they must be AGENT , ACTED-UPON , INSTRUMENT . |
| 22 | Australia are the best in the world because they won the World Cup and they will be world champions until the next time . |
| 23 | Pentecost followed forty days later and there began an onslaught on all that denies , destroys and deceives in human experience which will continue until it is seen that ‘ The kingship of the world now belongs to our Lord and to his Christ and he shall be king forever . ’ |
| 24 | Another minute and he would be broadside to the swell . |
| 25 | he 's retired , but he 's , he 's been quite busy with this Festival , but I , I said to him , now what I 'll do is maybe come and you and him and Jane maybe kind of will just sort of have a quick confab sometime just talk about what he wants , and he will be kind of happy to do that with obviously we 'd have to find a drop of money to pay for the tapes , I mean that would n't be huge and expensive . |
| 26 | And he will be post . |
| 27 | ( If ever I get the DTs I know what I 'll see and it 'll be Cathedral Bugs and more Cathedral Bugs all the way down to the bottom . ) |
| 28 | And it 'll be goodbye electricity , goodbye reading , goodbye bananas … |
| 29 | And he 's only got to see her ’ — he thrust his head back — ‘ and it 'll be mother and daughter . |
| 30 | Right , we 'll go up this way , through the promena along the promenade , and then we 'll go back through the town and it 'll be time to get the others from school by then . |