Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapman , said the Yorkshire Post , was ‘ slowly but surely evolving a set of players from whom much may be expected in the future ’ . |
| 2 | And in the same year the First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes of the greatest of all English lutenists , John Dowland ( 1563–1626 ) , was printed ‘ with Tableture for the Lute : So made that all the parts together , or either of them severally may be song to the Lute , Orpherian [ a species of cittern , tuned like a lute ] or Viol de Gambo ’ , a confused description which conceals the condition that the highest part must be sung . |
| 3 | Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils . |
| 4 | To see them together would be more painful than she could bear . |
| 5 | Paying them less would be just as reprehensible . |
| 6 | Erm , so that I apparently would be still me even if I had completely different desires , tastes , er preferences er so on and so forth . |
| 7 | Whether the Council I , I personally would be quite keen to go down there and see A , and we 'd need permission of the land owners , to do this , to see where the link could go across , you know , the best position , so that we , and I believe this is what Councillor is saying , so that we can actually come forward and maybe this ought to be a meeting with the Amenities Committee , maybe the Ramblers and bear in mind as I say again I hate to do these things and the land owner think we 're steamrollering 'em into something without their knowledge . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I shortly will be announcing club profits which may be a bit difficult for people to understand , appreciate and accept as they 'll be close to £1m from last year . |
| 9 | Oh I just might be able to afford that . |
| 10 | ‘ I soon will be back on a farm , thank the Lord . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Not yet , but I soon will be . ’ |
| 12 | I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp . |
| 13 | I can remember wondering whether I ever would be . |
| 14 | I 'm forty-two and I do n't expect I ever will be myself now . |
| 15 | When I revisited the place in 1974 , I found it at once grim and beautiful , at once an irrelevance to my present life and a painfully inevitable part of what I was , what I am , and what I always shall be . |
| 16 | I always will be , ’ claiming that taking on the pop funk sound of the moment was a perfect fulfilment of punk 's evangelist logic . |
| 17 | I 've always been one , and I always will be one . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I 'm here and I always will be . |
| 19 | Erm we we are I will be er as brief as I possibly can be on this one . |
| 20 | So a leisure card 's been introduced now and will be I hopefully will be expand and give that sort of financial reward to people who live in the town . |
| 21 | So I began to sleep with men in order to discover myself , to see , through their unknown , hitherto unmet eyes , the self that I really was at the same time as the self that I really might be . |
| 22 | One more cup of tea and then I really must be on my way . |
| 23 | I really must be going . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I really must be going , Christina . |
| 25 | But now I really must be going . |
| 26 | ‘ I really must be going to Matey , Dr Neil . |
| 27 | Excuse me , Dudley , I really must be going . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I think I really must be in love . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I really must be going , ’ she said . |
| 30 | You ca n't sleep you 're actually providing your own sleep deprivation and you say hey , next thing you know I really will be falling down the stairs ! but he does n't seem to get the joke and then it 's back to the cell and then the interview room with the barred , opaqued windows so you ca n't see out and they switch on the tape-machine recording everything as usual and it 's getting more bizarre ; they get me to do a Michael Caine voice ! |