Example sentences of "[modal v] be [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world crown could … should be their 's this season … so tonight we meet the main man … |
| 2 | And true to form Flippin Shytalk roars across the line to win again … the National Championship should be their 's this summer … they defy the dangers week in week out … there 's no money to be won just fun to be had … |
| 3 | procedures should be what is happening , not what our aspirations are . |
| 4 | Should they be voting in their own interests , or should be they be voting out of their view of what is right , what is the good ? |
| 5 | These must be what are called hypnogogic images , the strangely potent montages which come at a mind already lapsed into a sort of sleep . |
| 6 | ‘ If I 'm not far mistaken this must be what is termed ‘ an area of outstanding natural beauty ’ . |
| 7 | And their appearance must be what was considered beautiful . |
| 8 | Must be they were all the same |
| 9 | Must be there 's something wrong somewhere . |
| 10 | Yeah it must be it 's not cheap |
| 11 | So , so it must be it is erm can I write it down on here ? |
| 12 | It must be I was only thinking the other day the number of bakers but er the number of small bakers that were in Caldmore there was the two brothers one was in Road and one was in Street there was on the corner of Street , where the Co-op have that place now that was they were all bread bakers , were bread bakers er a bit further down Street going towards Street was bakery , they were a bakers and confectioners in Street |
| 13 | Furthermore , we may perhaps see in " make smooth , straight " a greater precision than in " prepare " in line A is properly " clear away " , i.e. " remove any obstacles " , which could apply to an already existing road-which might be what is meant by " the way of Yahweh " . |
| 14 | Erm that seems to be the main motivation but I do n't think it is , personally , er it might be what is suggested to them because if they look like going socialist again , then it is not what the majority of the capitalist wants , or the major powers want . |
| 15 | Cos it might be somebody is |
| 16 | I 'm only edgy because there might be something being planned , but I 'm probably completely wrong . |
| 17 | Whoever the child-murdering Mingrelians might be they were certainly a long way away . |
| 18 | the landlords in Saigon are if you like more commercial , more capitalist , it might be they were better organized than landlords in the north . |
| 19 | She observes , for example , that gender may affect language use in a given situation not just as a property of the speaker but also as a characteristic of the addressee ; the determining factor might be who is being spoken to rather than who is speaking . |
| 20 | You know before you 're sure whether it 's cos you know if you get into probation you see , that 's quite a specialized area and , and it may I think actually it might be it 's quite difficult to get into . |
| 21 | It might be it 's just under the eye |
| 22 | It 's as , what I 'm looking for is that the people who tick it off as being okay know what they are looking for , and that maybe that it 's the right number of boxes , it might be it 's the right grade of paper , whatever it happens to be that , that , if they tick it to say it 's right , then that 's what , that they have checked in some way . |
| 23 | The burly barman , it might be he was once a footballer : he booted the man up and down and up and down and out into the street . |
| 24 | Heather must have had some compelling reason to follow in the direction they led , yet what that reason might be he was no nearer discovering . |
| 25 | The only place in which a presumption now appears in national guidance is in P P G two and it 'll be it is no secret that erm P P G two will be the subject of a revision . |
| 26 | Cor that 'll be I 'm er we said when that big new Tesco 's open |
| 27 | I 'm convinced that could be what 's affected the Rose Bowl 's profits recently . |
| 28 | they might be thinking that we 'll relax , we do n't really know.They could be playing for time.It could be they are seriously re-thinking . |
| 29 | It could be they were foreigners . |
| 30 | But this summer could be it 's last . |