Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [conj] [noun prp] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Crathie Church next Saturday , the only concern should be that Anne is finding the joy that she so richly deserves . |
| 2 | One way of answering the question might be that Stalin was as unorthodox a Marxist as Makarenko , but this avoids the crucial problem of political control . |
| 3 | This might be because Dickens is trying to tell us that society should be close-knit one and not isolated into different units . |
| 4 | It could be that Matthew is referring to the greatest text to be found in the Old Testament concerning the coming of the Messiah : ‘ Then a shoot shall grow from the stock of Jesse , and a branch shall spring from his roots . |
| 5 | You see it may be that Dean 's right I must admit I think I , I agree with Dean I think he is right that the real problem is that natural selection may have fitted us by , as it were , rigging our emotional system . |
| 6 | It may be that Catherine is giving her clay balls identities rather than deliberately ordering them . |
| 7 | It may be that Somerset was as much in the grip of the obsession to unite England and Scotland as ever Edward I or Henry VIII had been , while like them asserting English power in France ; for he continued Henry 's policy of war on two fronts , at enormous financial expense , and ultimately at the cost of his own position in England . |
| 8 | Hard as he is working on the switch , it may be that Bayfield is being groomed in the rigours of international rugby so as to be better able to step into Dooley 's shoes when he finally retires , probably at the end of this season . |
| 9 | It was in September 1953 that I arrived as a new boy at Woolverstone Hall School and it may be that Ray was also new to the school . |
| 10 | It may be that Dickens was a better psychologist than some of his critics . |
| 11 | I know not , it may be that Mr is saying this is something that that never it 's never I 've never understood it to be er part of my practice or part of any solicitors practice to offer such a and if we have a solicitor er who has constantly practised in his skills for a very lengthy period of time , that is saying oh yes it is because this , as far as I 'm concerned , standard advice which solicitors should give to clients transactions . |
| 12 | Obviously , that was not the case but it may be that Viola was so used to people thinking like that about her that she felt a need to assert herself as well . |
| 13 | It may be that Candida is overabundant , but that this does not show up in the stools because the yeast is attached to the gut wall in some way — perhaps in its hyphal form . |
| 14 | It may be that Luke is referring to this tradition , and if so , he will mean us to understand that on the day of Pentecost , the gathered representatives ‘ from every nation under heaven ’ heard the mighty deeds of God being proclaimed , ‘ every man … in his own language ’ . |
| 15 | In fact it may be that Leeds are nt even his fave English side . |
| 16 | The reason for this may be because God was increasingly called ‘ the Holy One ’ ( there was a slightly increasing tendency in intertestamental writings and the Dead Sea Scrolls to speak of ‘ the Holy Spirit ’ ) but might just be due to the character of Jesus . |
| 17 | This would be a bold argument , since its thrust would be that Morgan is correct as a case on general principles but wrong as a rape decision . |
| 18 | She wondered how much longer it would be before Jack was brought in in this sort of state , and how she would feel if he was . |
| 19 | ‘ I would be if Kate were happy . ’ |
| 20 | What would distress me would be if Scotland were not able in such a process to express democratically her own voice and her own vision of the European future and of the future of Scotland in Europe . |
| 21 | She felt the only possible solution to the situation would be if Liza were to marry again ; but with the girl 's precarious mental state and lack of contact with the outside world , this hardly seemed likely . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , it would be if David were here , ’ replied Sybil . |
| 23 | In effect , the reality will be that Israel is to become the key to Middle Eastern security once again because of the unreliability of Arab states , particularly in the Levant . |
| 24 | It will be because Eeyore is n't even trying to communicate . |