Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inferences are systematic , they are decodable by different interpreters in the same way , and without most of them the exchange can not be understood ; most of them must therefore be part of what is communicated , in Grice 's strict sense of meant-nn . |
| 2 | Yours may well be toothache . ’ |
| 3 | I lo , I might even be Romeo . |
| 4 | United visit Villa Park , and Atkinson wistfully linked the past with the present when he said : ‘ If I 'd had Dean Saunders at United , we would have won the Championship and I might still be manager of Manchester United . ’ |
| 5 | because But then I thought then I thought well I 'll Here 's Rachel do you want to and then like it 's be like Oh I 'm spoiling it for him . |
| 6 | " And one day perhaps I 'll even be mum to a boy child , like all of you . |
| 7 | That one day I 'll just be history , like the rest … |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I 'll best be orf , ’ she said coldly . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll still be Tony to most people . |
| 10 | My goodness , if I could only be God for a short time-even half a day ! — then I 'd be content to be St Peter for ever after ! " |
| 11 | ‘ I could hardly be Fairy Godmother , ’ joked Gayle . |
| 12 | I 'll tell you what I 'd rather be Intercity than Central Services in terms of the market we 've got . |
| 13 | ‘ If I knew my future and that I would never be No 1 I think I 'd tell myself to forget it . |
| 14 | ‘ I shall always be McAllister to you , I think . ’ |
| 15 | You and I will always be friends . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't think I can ever be friends with her again . ’ |
| 17 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |
| 18 | The number of protons in the nucleus gives the atomic number of the element , which must necessarily be integer : 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 to 92 . |
| 19 | Which might just be Alan Davies ' test for 1992 . |
| 20 | erm The Spire is erm a symbol that has a lot of meanings attached to it , and it 's finally a book not about the building of a spire , but about a particular obsession in an individual human being , about the ideas that a man might have about ways of doing great things , which might actually be ideas that are rooted in some sort of self-deception . |
| 21 | But afterwards he felt depressed , and a bit ill , and there was a nagging pain in his chest which could either be indigestion or the start of a heart attack . |
| 22 | Then she was in another bedroom which could only be Luke 's , and on the chest by the window lay the passport . |
| 23 | Every one of her senses sharpened to its utmost Gina entered a world as unreal and beautiful as Tivoli itself , mindlessly letting conscious thought give way to pure sensation , as his voice caressed her ears with words which could only be endearments , husky and broken . |
| 24 | Acts which would otherwise be trespass are not so when justification is provided by law . |
| 25 | When they were , by one LEA , advised about how to produce a management plan , they were told that there was probably " much information already in the school which would either be part of the plan or would help in the process of producing specific documents within it . " |
| 26 | James Capel is taking the latter tack , while Hoare Govett , which will soon be 51% owned by its employees , will concentrate on quality here . |
| 27 | Theorists of the ‘ regulation ’ school , such as Aglietta ( 1979 ) , regard Fordism as something which will increasingly be con fined to the less developed industries , themselves tending to be located within less developed areas of the world economy , as capitalism becomes ever more institutionalized . |
| 28 | Provisions which will probably be conditions from the beginning deal with aspects such as the time for delivery and the description of the actual computer concerned . |
| 29 | You will also have to allow for the time lag between installation and productive use which will probably be months rather than weeks or days . |
| 30 | Last week , an announcement on er further steps on acid rain — six thousand million pounds ; I mean there 's big , big money in there already committed and I 've no doubt that when the need is shown , there 'll be greater money still spent — which will either be taxpayer 's money or customer 's money . |