Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Many acts of trespass , breaches of contract , violations of copyright , and so on , regrettable as some of them may be on other grounds , have no implications one way or another for the stability of the government and the law . |
2 | Himself is right : half of them must be in the pay of the Foley Street mob . |
3 | The statement went on to give full support to APEX 's decision to limit the number of pickets ; the TUC wished to stress to all trade unionists that any action by them should be at the union 's official request . |
4 | It 's the likes o' them should be at those meetin 's , an' if your people manages ter convert just a couple o' drunkards each time then they 've done a good job . |
5 | Snizort , on his own account , offered the Twelve Knights who had sat at a round table so that no one of them should be at its head and no one at its foot . |
6 | I 've come to see if I may be of use . ’ |
7 | I am very honoured as Rector to be associated with this great University and hope that during my period of office should you decide to come here , that I may be of assistance to you during that time . |
8 | BY the time you read this , I may be on my knees , along with millions of other Christian people , at the Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday . |
9 | ‘ I may be against this on principle but I do n't see why I should n't be able to make a little bit of capital , ’ he added . |
10 | ‘ Pray permit me to go to him , that I may be by his side at his coronation . |
11 | ‘ I may be in tears , ’ said Henry , ‘ I may just … you know … blub ! ’ |
12 | I now come to a very controversial point on which I may be in a minority , but I think there is far too much written material with classical CDs . |
13 | Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation . |
14 | I may be in a murderous place , but I am in a sensible country . |
15 | I must be with my Minister at ten but I 'll come back for the funeral … or if anyone else wants to talk to me … ’ |
16 | And I must be on top to let him take the full force of the impact . |
17 | I must be on my way . " |
18 | " Well , I must be on my way . |
19 | Now , I must be on my way . |
20 | I knew I must be of officially dead . |
21 | I am not looking for money , just a deep involvement and I must be worth a telephone call . |
22 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
23 | My father may well wish for me a second marriage , and to that end I must be at offer soon , and with a proper dowry . |
24 | ‘ And now , Sergeant , I must be about my business . |
25 | ‘ I have n't even seen the original series — I must be about the only guy in the western hemisphere who has n't , ’ he said as the cast walked up the plank in Irvine , Ayrshire , to inspect the Vital Spark for the first time . |
26 | ‘ I must be off home . |
27 | — come on , I must be off my tiny thorax — |
28 | Nowadays the public attitude is much more likely to be : I must be in the house at 10.30 to watch Sports Report or whatever . |
29 | I think truly , he thinks I must be in love with him , and he does n't want to complicate things . " |
30 | Unless your father wishes to detain me , I must be in Nanking three hours from now to meet Major Karr . ’ |