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

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1 I may be being a bit paranoid , but if there is any bother , it will be the ones decked out as Leeds fans that get the trouble .
2 ‘ Where I 'll be is right here in Liskeard , for the most part seated at this very desk . ’
3 There had to be agencies and clinics that were competent to deal with drug abuse , while the best I could be was an enthusiastic amateur , and that was rarely good enough .
4 I also spoke of my difficulty in giving talks to the armed forces ; for nothing remotely intellectual was acceptable , and the only use which I felt I could be was in taking along a few maps and indicating the whereabouts of places increasingly mentioned on the wireless or the press ( though they read only the ‘ picture ’ papers ) .
5 All I would be was a punchbag for his escaping fury , the entity he saw as a new unbearable threat to his dominance in Tremayne 's stable ; the interloper , usurper , legitimate target .
6 But if we 're not careful , the real people , the real people who should be are going to be the losers , because they would not be able to draw the attendance allowance which they need to attend .
7 What she should be were it not for the constant muscular spasming and the recurrent confusion of her senses .
8 What the reader comes across are events , flashes , brief encounters , steps on a journey , though what the shape and direction of the journey itself might be is hard to say .
9 He thought he could hear voices now ; silvery , gentle voices , dark voices , that made you think you might be being watched .
10 With the Omni SQL Gateway that er you 'll be be able to access D B two data is that still going through the Open SQL Server or is that actually going D R D A or are there plans to go D R D A compliant ?
11 So that she 'd be be she 'd be doing her baking during the day while we were at school .
12 was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures .
13 You will be be amazed by what you can see .
14 We did , at the time , when the expenses were incurred , we gave it , that we were opposed to all the increases that were being made , we still maintain that policy , and I believe that there is a time when we should be be in approval , that we in fact , expending money on new active members is wrong , when in fact , have the cut backs , because at the end of the day , people of Lincolnshire have to pay for these additional expenses incurred to elected members .
15 A good example of how nasty one can be is to be had from the chimpanzee language experiments .
16 An attempt to determine before operation whether peptic ulcer patients are at risk of developing postvagotomy symptoms seems laudable but in practice such clues as there may be are probably too subtle to identify with any confidence from a non-invasive gastric emptying test .
17 Yes , there must be be a reason and as I 'm sure , I mean like like the objective , and then what you can do at this stage in the design process is once you 've got the objective then you select those themes or ideas from your what you 've done just now to support that objective , so that when you come up my objective is to convince you or my objective is to inform you then the information that you 're going to give out supports that objective .
18 He acknowledges that precisely what rules of property there should be is undetermined by this ‘ general requirement of justice ’ and he also concedes that the choice of rules will be to some extent arbitrary .
19 Well there 'd be be a squad of men working there , paid by the estate .
20 Teachers and librarians can not always resist the uneasy thought that they may be being given the soft sell : like demythologizing theologians laughing too heartily at our ideas of what religious doctrine involves , perhaps the educational technologist 's bland " all we are saying is " is simply the prelude to smuggling all the old gadgetry back again while our backs are turned ?
21 Now they should be be perfectly plain , straight and we got a t I got a true cut on eighteen inches with a a Mr was so so he made a special report on erm what I 'd done .
22 What the outcome of seeing him might be is beside the point ; I have become incapable of calculation .
23 Because I am I am beginning to think maybe they could be be erm game feature of the .
24 Today er on that job they 'd be be getting about three hundred .
25 But what they will be is discreet about it all .
26 For example , a doctor may be able to see more patients each hour and he may be being more efficient by seeing more people in a fixed period of time .
27 Simple tests to see that your baby 's sight is developing as it should be are carried out at her normal child health clinic checks , but a detailed examination by an eye specialist wo n't be given until a child is between three or four years old .
28 And that 's how it should be is it ?
29 It should be is what we 've agreed in one of our suggestions , that unless you 're talking about something different .
30 And I hasten to say it , governments of all persuasions assume it must be being done .
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