Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] 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 | What she should be were it not for the constant muscular spasming and the recurrent confusion of her senses . |
7 | He thought he could hear voices now ; silvery , gentle voices , dark voices , that made you think you might be being watched . |
8 | 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 ? |
9 | So that she 'd be be she 'd be doing her baking during the day while we were at school . |
10 | You will be be amazed by what you can see . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 ? |
13 | 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 . |
14 | What the outcome of seeing him might be is beside the point ; I have become incapable of calculation . |
15 | Because I am I am beginning to think maybe they could be be erm game feature of the . |
16 | Today er on that job they 'd be be getting about three hundred . |
17 | But what they will be is discreet about it all . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | And that 's how it should be is it ? |
21 | It should be is what we 've agreed in one of our suggestions , that unless you 're talking about something different . |
22 | And I hasten to say it , governments of all persuasions assume it must be being done . |
23 | A Scottish solicitor , George Hann , told the charity it might be being set up but he believes it reacted too slowly and as a result the fraudsters were able to escape . |
24 | It 'll be be much more straightforward when they 've got the whole thing on the computer but at the moment it 's a transitional phase . |
25 | I tell you what it could be is that cos you got ta know that C D's use laser to read it |
26 | They 're asking what the noise could be who it could be were the guards coming for them ? |
27 | This was a this was plastered so it 'd be be a ni nice inside wall for inside of the vestry . |
28 | The possessed woman , like her bewitched counterpart , becomes the immediate centre of attention and care , and although she exerts pressure upon her spouse the latter is not assailed as radically as he would be were he accused of being a witch . |
29 | ‘ If and when I make love to you , the last thing it will be is ‘ casual sex ’ . ’ |
30 | It will be were n't it ? |