Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Mother Jacobsen would chuckle over this : ‘ How much wiser must I be than Odin , I who have neither eye ! ’ |
| 2 | What a creature must I be if you could not be abroad with a lady but I must be jealous of you ? |
| 3 | My good sister , how happy should I be if I might be admitted to a conversation with you at your grate . |
| 4 | What sort of person should you be if you think advertising writing is the job for you ? |
| 5 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 6 | But why should it be that Peggy gets a lift from knowing that she has ‘ beaten ’ Boris ? |
| 7 | What size should it be and does it matter which design is chosen ? |
| 8 | What measures of success might there be if the goal of changing client behaviour in some way is no longer centre stage ? |
| 9 | Where , why might it be that if , if we 're actually talking about this mutation and things have changed it ? |
| 10 | ‘ Might it be , I 'm only hazarding a guess , you realize that , but might it be that they want you to get them out here again ? ’ |
| 11 | But given the discrimination shown against climbers in the present price structure , how long might it be before you climb at High Rocks by season ticket , or prior arrangement and private fee only ? |
| 12 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 13 | ‘ And when you locked up after you , how certain could you be that there was no one here , perhaps hidden ? |
| 14 | How could you be when I 've shown you nothing but contempt ? ’ |
| 15 | Besides , what nobler work of civilisation could there be than a child happily asleep ? |
| 16 | What better example of devolution to the individual could there be than the provision in amendment No. 3 that |
| 17 | What better path could there be than through Iran and indeed , along Reza Shahs new railway ? |
| 18 | What could he be after , where could he fit in , if this was true ? |
| 19 | Yet who could he be but Maurice ? |
| 20 | Yet where else could he be but on deck ? |
| 21 | Could it be that there was then more racism in the art world , and that Black artists were being squeezed out at just the time when young working-class artists from the British provinces were finding unprecedented and immediate public fortune ? |
| 22 | Could it be that the Germans in the west did not want unity after all , despite those opinion polls over decades showing they did ? |
| 23 | Could it be that you are just a little bit jealous of The Great White North — a society , after all , rather less divisive and certainly more prosperous than decaying , decadent Britain ? |
| 24 | Could it be that his wife Elizabeth , who was secretary of labour until three months ago , wanted another push in the campaign she launched last May ? |
| 25 | Could it be that he had invented the entire tableau , he wondered ? |
| 26 | There is one astounding omission from this list — could it be that Glyndebourne forgot the anniversary ? |
| 27 | Could it be that the Prime Minister did n't want to admit to a U-turn , to reneging on a commitment to European partners , ‘ some of those European Commissioners ’ , ‘ the mining areas ’ and ‘ the people of Britain ’ ? |
| 28 | Could it be that she had retraced her steps , worked out that the house was Littlecote and the perpetrator of this heinous crime was Darrel ? |
| 29 | Or could it be that you are deft and capable in practical ways ( needed by a care assistant in social service , or as a nursing aide ) ? |
| 30 | Could it be that Albert 's eyes dulled a little ? |