Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could I be of some assistance ? |
| 2 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
| 3 | Why , if there was anything serious the matter with you , Martha , should n't I be in constant attendance upon you ? ’ |
| 4 | Why should I be like this ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Why ca n't I be like some of them girls ! ’ |
| 6 | Could she be of any assistance ? |
| 7 | Will she be with all those little midgets that play at being children ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Can you be for real ? ’ he muttered . |
| 9 | Where will you be at twelve then Joan ? |
| 10 | ‘ And the Lord Henry Percy and his lady in especial greet your Grace , and pray you be of good cheer in this happy news , for that the price set upon these Scots prisoners , such as belong to the Lord Henry , shall be at your Grace 's disposal in the matter of the redeeming of their beloved kinsman , Sir Edmund Mortimer , out of his captivity in Wales . |
| 11 | ‘ But how can you be like that ? ’ |
| 12 | How could you be like that ? |
| 13 | I think you are a young man now , what will you be in fourteen years , and will it matter then whether you are Holovich or Holly ? |
| 14 | Would you be in immediate financial difficulty if you lost your job ? |
| 15 | Will you be in all day ? |
| 16 | Where would we be without all the trash ? |
| 17 | Another reads : ‘ Where would we be without that much-maligned virtue , vanity ! ’ |
| 18 | Can we be of any assistance ? |
| 19 | And the more dubious must we be of sweeping generalisations made on the basis of such statistics . |
| 20 | And so you go back and you say to your brother I just can not give this , it 's impossible you see , well should we be like that ? |
| 21 | Our first daughter , Lewis-Ann , sometimes complained : ‘ Why ca n't we be like normal families and go to France or Greece ? ’ she would moan . |
| 22 | I mean , for a start we 've got twenty five pence in the pound tax rate , where will we be in five years time ? |
| 23 | Why might we , we be in big trouble if it 's a problem ? |
| 24 | Or it can be used to express requests for which one can assume willingness to comply : ( 209 ) ( She ) took me by the hand , and bidding me be of good cheer , set off with Gus in a coach , to pay a visit to those persons . |
| 25 | ( In practice the meshes need not be of constant size nor need they be of uniform shape . ) |
| 26 | Second , once identified , can they be of any use in helping us solve real-life issues ? |
| 27 | Assuming the cardboard box was full of letters and that each one carried a stamp — used stamps of Natal and Cape Province between the years say , 1850 and 1890 — would they be worth much ? |
| 28 | Whatever you do at least be sure to make it stupendously high ; let it be of all columns in the world the most lofty . ’ |
| 29 | How could it be of ethical significance that the word ‘ good ’ , considered just as a sound , is used in a certain way ? |
| 30 | When could it be of particular use to you do you think ? |