Example sentences of "[pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why ca n't I be but one more sheep — |
| 2 | Old Mother Jacobsen would chuckle over this : ‘ How much wiser must I be than Odin , I who have neither eye ! ’ |
| 3 | So would I be if they were ordering an early confrontation with M Delors . |
| 4 | My good sister , how happy should I be if I might be admitted to a conversation with you at your grate . |
| 5 | What a creature must I be if you could not be abroad with a lady but I must be jealous of you ? |
| 6 | Will I be when my organs are removed ? |
| 7 | History of searching for a role ( ‘ What will I be when I grow up ? ’ ) . |
| 8 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 9 | ‘ And when you locked up after you , how certain could you be that there was no one here , perhaps hidden ? |
| 10 | So I asked myself where else would you be but at Tivoli watching the ballet ? ’ |
| 11 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 12 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 13 | ‘ And where would you be if he got killed ? |
| 14 | What sort of person should you be if you think advertising writing is the job for you ? |
| 15 | How much over-weight would you be if your baggage weighed 29kg . |
| 16 | ‘ For a friar I am very quick , My Lord Coroner , and so would you be if you drank less claret ! ’ |
| 17 | wha what 's what would your opinion be as as a church-comer would you be as we do n't know whether the Archbishop really said it cos it 's printed in the Sun for heaven 's sake . |
| 18 | — Where will you be when you 're twenty-five , Gazzer ? ’ |
| 19 | How could you be when I 've shown you nothing but contempt ? ’ |
| 20 | Where would we be but for the work done by previous generations ? |
| 21 | But the question remains , how confident can we be that a formula score is truly representative of the overall difficulty level ? |
| 22 | And , and you 'd , I 'd , you 'd say how long would we be and well we 'd come to er , you know , an agr |
| 23 | Where would we be if every patient did that ? |
| 24 | Erm this first two we 'd tell people the answers to , so what answer would this one be that times by ten and all that happens . |
| 25 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 26 | Besides , what nobler work of civilisation could there be than a child happily asleep ? |
| 27 | What better example of devolution to the individual could there be than the provision in amendment No. 3 that |
| 28 | What better path could there be than through Iran and indeed , along Reza Shahs new railway ? |
| 29 | The seven questions were : What guarantees would there be that a united Germany would not threaten security and peace in Europe ? ; |
| 30 | And what assurance can there be that the brittle , complex industrial structure will not collapse through the failure of some small but vital component ? |