Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll just be betting horses or chasing women or something like that .
2 I 'll probably be doing hampers next year .
3 I 'll definitely be taking care this time , ’ said Martin , who was allowed out of hospital on Christmas Eve .
4 And when I die , I 'll still be called Stuart Hughes .
5 If this had n't happened , I 'd probably be teaching music .
6 Enya : ‘ If this had n't happened , I 'd probably be teaching music . ’
7 My friends are still traumatised by the shock of passing over , but rest assured I shall soon be attempting communion with them .
8 I shall merely be requesting information about a taste which puzzles me , not demanding a further reason without which the whole string of answers will prove to be baseless .
9 Er I hope that makes the matter clear , because when we come to make a decision on this group of amendments , er when I er seek the opinion of the er Committee on my Amendment five , I shall only be seeking agreement to Amendment five and its related amendments er eight and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to the amendments in his name because we have in fact four alternatives before us which we are debating together .
10 Nevertheless his career reveals the strong point of a ‘ heroic ’ view of evil , the weak point of a Boethian one : if you regard evil as something internal , to be pitied , more harmful to the malefactor than the victim , you may be philosophically consistent but you may also be exposing others to sacrifices to which they have not consented ( like being murdered by Viking ravagers or , as The Lord of the Rings was being written , being herded into gas-chambers ) .
11 For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction .
12 ‘ Ben and I were sure that you must still be feeling jet lagged .
13 To do this you should always be looking upwind to spot the give-away dark furry patches on the water that mark their approach .
14 You 'll probably be ringing people up anyway trying to get them to understand .
15 If you 're converting your loft , or want a fitted bedroom or bathroom , you 'll probably be making use of fibreboards in one shape or another .
16 Breakfast is included at all hotels and at some , you 'll also be given dinner inclusive of the voucher price .
17 She 'll still be marrying Nahum .
18 You 'd simply be committing suicide : you 're either a killer or some fruitcake who thinks he 's a killer and neither wanted in today 's modern Army thank you . ’
19 ‘ That way , you could just be adding lines that are n't there .
20 I thought of my mother , she would probably be baking scones , her apron dusted with flour .
21 Imagine yourself as an examiner working on a huge pile of scripts in pleasant summer weather when you would rather be playing tennis .
22 In your professional work after you have qualified , you will rarely be allowed time to do everything twice and so you had better learn now .
23 If you are pregnant you will normally be allowed maternity leave of 48 weeks .
24 You will also be given weekend membership of the exclusive Country Club with its numerous facilities .
25 Hopefully you will also be raising money through sponsorship to help selected projects in countries far worse off than our own .
26 However , with more than 25% of all district councillors returned in 1990 being women , we may just be seeing evidence of a ‘ bottom up ’ trend in female participation in electoral politics in Britain .
27 We should really be laying men off ; there is no money in the bank . ’
28 The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others .
29 We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too .
30 Er , we need to now have some to er cover the cost of proposed adaptations to bring support staff together , which I 'll , which we 've got in hand , and we 'll also be miring money , I think from the salary budget to help with the cost of er the total quality training .
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