Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may not yet be family , but I do know enough about you to know you do n't have a stepbrother . ’ |
| 2 | For myself I would much rather be hunting — or even back in the army again . " |
| 3 | Lady Diana said : ‘ In 12 days time I shall no longer be men . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Now that Edward is king , I suppose I shall very soon be Princess of Wales — is that not so ? ’ |
| 5 | Mourning and depression are not seen as overlapping through different processes ; rather , early loss or bereavement actually produces the vulnerability to psychiatric disorder ( which may not necessarily be depression ) . |
| 6 | Open learning involves an individualised approach to meeting the needs of the learner ; he or she need not then be part of a larger formal group treated as one unit . |
| 7 | Certain persons who would not otherwise be customers are treated as customers for the purposes of the COB Rules . |
| 8 | The same population which hero-worshipped Hitler would not tolerate ‘ little tin-pot gods ( Nebengötter ) alongside the Führer ’ , and wanted an end to ‘ this glorification of persons who would otherwise practically be nobodies ’ and to the uncalled for luxury-living in a Party which had come to power stating that it would wipe out such corruption . |
| 9 | I rediscovered the pleasure of a physical life , the intense satisfaction of exhausting manual work , and most important of all the fantastic richness of experience of ordinary working men , a whole sector of society who would otherwise still be strangers to me . |
| 10 | She will no longer be Miss , Mrs or Ms Jones , secretary , teacher , nurse , or producer or seller of merchandise . |
| 11 | In accepting Aquino 's endorsement of his candidacy Ramos stated that " her unique moral authority " would greatly assist his campaign , and would mean that " we will no longer be voices crying in the wilderness " . |
| 12 | There may even yet be reason , as Whitty ( 1989 ) claims , to be ‘ thankful that the National Curriculum is there as the one remaining symbol of a common education system and specifiable entitlement which people can struggle collectively to improve ’ . |
| 13 | There may not always be Summers Of Love , winters of Punk , Acid House explosions and Madchester madnesses , but there is always great and exciting ( new and old ) music out there . |
| 14 | there will presumably always be value in having temporary organizations outside the permanent government service that can be scrapped when chances permit ; |
| 15 | If people must pay for it they will take its effects into account in making private decisions and there will no longer be market failure . |
| 16 | The point now , however , is that there will no more be passports to be shown between London and Edinburgh than London and Paris or Edinburgh and Paris . |
| 17 | There will probably also be problems on the grounds of competition . |
| 18 | However , she concedes that there will probably always be people who choose to work outside the mainstream , though they may not be formally organised or funded in the future . |
| 19 | There will not always be critics and the rest , just as there will not always be man and the rest . |
| 20 | There will not always be critics and the rest , just as there will not always be man and the rest . |
| 21 | There will nearly always be problems when taking on a rescued dog , but with determination and good will on both sides , there are very few that ca n't be solved . |
| 22 | Because summer schools generate enormous interest overseas , there is nearly always a strong emphasis on the classical theatre , usually on Shakespeare , and there will quite probably be classes on classical texts and mini-production exercises arising from these . |
| 23 | If there are no numbers , there will almost certainly be letters instead ; and often a combination of both . |
| 24 | Indeed , as the conventional dominant does not exist in a whole-tone scale ( perfect fifths are not available ) , there can not possibly be effects of resolution such as we find in dominant-tonic harmonic movements . |
| 25 | For the reason that there can so often be delay in obtaining the husband 's signature , it is recommended that only once the documentation has been agreed and executed should a " completion date " be arranged so that the wife 's solicitors can make the necessary searches against the husband in HM Land Charges Registry or HM Land Registry ( as the case may be ) . |
| 26 | For the reason that there can so often be delay in obtaining the husband 's signature , it is recommended that only once the documentation has been agreed and executed is a " completion date " arranged so that the wife 's solicitors may ( in the case of unregistered title ) make a search against the husband at HM Land Charges Registry . |
| 27 | Surely they 'll no longer be travellers then . |
| 28 | Great numbers might drift through the drama , of course — thousands in fact — but they could only ever be phantoms , agents or , on rare occasions , reflections of the three real and self-willed beings who stood at the centre . |
| 29 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 30 | Nor , indeed is the requirement in Part I for separate disclosure of the amounts of charitable or political donations ; in view of the minimal amounts needed to trigger this requirement and the modest amounts normally donated , they would very rarely be material to a true and fair view of its financial affairs . |