Example sentences of "you [modal v] [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ye might be a boy , ’ he said . |
| 2 | You may be a dragon , but I am a child . |
| 3 | ‘ After all , ’ Tealtaoich had said silkily , ‘ you may be a bastard , my friend , but you are a High Queen 's bastard and you were sired by a Wolf . |
| 4 | You may be a help later . ’ |
| 5 | You may be a sign that avoids deep , dark and passionate waters but often what you most fear turns out to be the best thing for you . |
| 6 | Or you may be a carer looking for help to enable you to take a break , either for regular short spells , or to go on holiday or in an emergency . |
| 7 | ‘ Papa says you may be a murderer , ’ was her ingenuous opening gambit . |
| 8 | Then you may be a victim of ‘ Sick Building Syndrome ’ ( SBS ) ( honest ! ) . |
| 9 | You may find yourself having to take notes at a meeting , you may be a student or engaged in research , so here are some hints to help with your note-taking technique . |
| 10 | You may not be a salaried person at all , you may be a student or a retired person with no mortgage left to pay . |
| 11 | You may be an artist , a photographer , or a skilled embroiderer , but whatever you are , a wonderful sunset will find you watching awestruck . |
| 12 | If you 're Russian you must be a Communist . |
| 13 | If you 're Colombian you must be a drug dealer . |
| 14 | Thesiger 's response was typical of the man who had endured the searing heat , tongue-swelling thirst and bitter , skin-cracking cold of the desert : ‘ God , you must be a couple of pansies ’ , he said . |
| 15 | ‘ What is more , ’ he continued conversationally , ‘ you must be a member of the Luciferi . |
| 16 | I said you must be a member to handle money . . |
| 17 | You must be a Jew ! ’ he shouted , and turned away . |
| 18 | If you 're Libyan or Lebanese you must be a terrorist . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If you 're really pretending to be English , then you must be a terrorist , I suppose . |
| 20 | I think you must be a spirit . |
| 21 | Gav , you must be a Yorkie ! |
| 22 | Gav , you must be a Yorkie ! |
| 23 | If you can get it as good as that your first time up you must be a natural . |
| 24 | Now if you use that , that g gives the people the wrong impression that you must be a pensioner before you can join it , but this is not so . |
| 25 | You must be a foreigner from a distant and barbarous land ! |
| 26 | So I goes , you must be a pervert too and you started laughing . |
| 27 | To qualify , you must be a practitioner ( or a group of practitioners ) working in education ( in Scotland ) whose normal job does not include doing research and who does not have the support available to those doing research as part of a degree or diploma . |
| 28 | She blinked , then laughed as she said , ‘ You must be a reader of thoughts , sir . |
| 29 | ‘ Here , in Kao Chen 's , we have an agreement , and you must be a party to it , Axel . |
| 30 | In here or out , there you must be an individual . |