Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [modal v] [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 " And one day perhaps I 'll even be mum to a boy child , like all of you .
2 Perhaps we should just be friends ? ’
3 Obviously there will always be ads called in after our final press deadline , and those will have to wait until the following issue .
4 The huts would look like they used to and inside there 'd even be staff dressed in period uniform .
5 so there may well be eco-freaks in office in France and Germany come Monday .
6 But perhaps it may regretfully be time to demolish our bothies — their unique charm and tradition destroyed by the greedy — another casualty like that on the consciences of the cairnbuilding , memorial erecting , road bulldozing and ‘ 100 best walks ’ brigade .
7 ‘ Be always ready , according to your power to relieve the poor and help the distressed … ’ is a quote from The Rules for the Conduct of Life , a copy of which is given to all new Freemen — or perhaps it should now be Freepersons .
8 So it 'll soon be Easter as well wo n't it ?
9 Mr Urbanec , who is to hold further talks with Mr Havel today — this time in front of television cameras — conceded that the party realised it was held in deep mistrust by the public , and accepted that henceforth it could only be part of the political spectrum .
10 Meanwhile there would still be room for outsiders to show initiative in asking interesting questions of companies , and coming to their own conclusions .
11 Cos if not it 'll soon be time for bed .
12 Free feed in this instance is not to attract them to our swim , for if we have chosen wisely we will already be fishing on the patrol route which they follow regardless of groundbait being present or not .
13 If it works out we shall practically be neighbours , Paula . ’
14 Not at all — ring ‘ 93 ’ now there may well be cancellations !
15 Now there would only be days to finish things .
16 Now it could soon be time gentlemen please .
17 because But then I thought then I thought well I 'll Here 's Rachel do you want to and then like it 's be like Oh I 'm spoiling it for him .
18 Well you 'll soon be computer whizz kids eh ?
19 ‘ What matters to us is the fact that we have not enjoyed much success against Southern Hemisphere nations and until we start beating them regularly we will never be world champions .
20 Er well it 'll soon be Liz 's birthday .
21 Nowadays it may well be world history , deeply simplified .
22 I do n't see how she could ever be Queen .
23 ‘ It is my view that many companies have weathered the recession and are coming out of it , but unfortunately there will still be casualties .
24 If aspects of CAB policy that the adviser questions arise during training , then it must also be part of training to show how advisers might try to influence CAB policy .
25 Then it can only be Benedict .
26 In less than six hours ' time — and there it would still be night — he would be attempting to scale the steel wall , trying not to get crushed against it .
27 In this first part of Language in Popular Fiction Nash introduces an interesting narrative device , that of defeating the reader 's expectancies by presenting excerpts from serious literature in those parts of the analysis where there would normally be examples from popfiction .
28 First , that it operates in the real world where there would always be obstacles to giving every shade of opinion equal air time .
29 However there will also be export trade diversion when a union country supplies a partner country in place of the imports from third countries .
30 Occasionally there will still be glimpses of the real person , pleading for help and desperately trying to be free .
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