Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] be [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | " And one day perhaps I 'll even be mum to a boy child , like all of you . |
| 5 | That one day I 'll just be history , like the rest … |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I 'll best be orf , ’ she said coldly . |
| 7 | ‘ I could hardly be Fairy Godmother , ’ joked Gayle . |
| 8 | ‘ If I knew my future and that I would never be No 1 I think I 'd tell myself to forget it . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Acts which would otherwise be trespass are not so when justification is provided by law . |
| 13 | 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 . " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Measurements of lichen thalli on surfaces of known dates can be basis for growth curve which can then be basis for indicating age of other surfaces . |
| 17 | if you living on a low income , you may also be ale to get help with the cost — see pages 8-9 for details . |
| 18 | You should never be party to making anyone else do anything they do n't want to . |
| 19 | Well you 'll soon be computer whizz kids eh ? |
| 20 | WIGAN boss John Monie has warned British rugby league : ‘ Get your act together or you 'll never be world champions . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll still be King of Ruritania in a year 's time . ’ |
| 22 | On the statement emphasising that she could still be Queen , he said : ‘ The situation is very volatile . |
| 23 | I do n't see how she could ever be Queen . |
| 24 | How had it happened , this tragedy of falling in love with a man who could never be part of her destiny ? |
| 25 | When she read those magazines , did she think she 'd ever be part of that world ? |
| 26 | It does take time to become familiar with all the features of the ORIGINAL shaping section but , with patience and practice , you could soon be knee deep in patterns for a whole variety of made to measure designer garments ! |
| 27 | That would be one less thing for him to worry about with regards to his mother , for she would still be mistress of the house , at least until the war was over , which might go on for a year , perhaps two . |
| 28 | Two or three of them who were on the main board solicited support from other board members ; they worked even harder to obtain commitment from the heads of the businesses , who would soon be board members . |
| 29 | We will appoint from the House of Commons a Minister for Legal Administration , who will initially be part of the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 30 | Gloucestershire and England wicketkeeper Jack Russell believes Walsh to be the hardest bowler he has kept to because of his variation : ‘ You can never be stay in the right place — one ball will hit you in the chest and the next wo n't really come through . |