Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Approved Social Workers who may well be consulted under the s.58 ( consent to treatment ) provision of the Mental Health Act , clozapine presents a number of ethical issues , including , most importantly , the forcible treatment of patients with the drug , some of whom may also be forced to give blood against their will , in a stretching of common law interpretations relating to non psychiatric medical interventions . |
| 2 | The industrialists of the water-power age , out in the open country , had put up houses for their workpeople — as at Cromford , Mellor and Styal , where many of them may still be seen — which were , in Professor Ashton 's words , ‘ not wanting in amenity and comfort ’ and even possessed a certain quality of design and proportion . |
| 3 | Often she had passed the stone house where he lived with his children , some of whom must now be grown . |
| 4 | Rags and dusters with polish , window-cleaning liquid or white spirit on them should also be removed . |
| 5 | As the distinguished chemist , Cornford , said : ‘ The doctrine is based on the theory that nothing should ever be done for the first time . ’ |
| 6 | As a general rule , nothing should ever be put on gold leaf . |
| 7 | Perhaps I may also be permitted to use some of your space to assure your readers that the arrival of Triassic and Lilla for our Summer Gala ( June 20th/21st ) was not intended to be in any way the last minute and the locomotives arrived just two days before the event , so we preferred not to advertise them in advance so as to avoid disappointment . |
| 8 | Just across the street from here , I think — although after so long I may well be mistaken . |
| 9 | The expansiveness came to an end in the middle of 1940 , when he demanded better terms for Cotton Town than had been offered : ‘ The first book did well for you ( for me too , I readily admit ) , and since I may soon be called up , and have a wife and child to support , I should like to leave them as well provided for as possible . ’ |
| 10 | In choosing my own path I recognized that I may indeed be isolated , lonely and rejected by my family in a racist , sexist , homophobic country . |
| 11 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 12 | I went up to my bedchamber and prayed , as I have not prayed — from desolation — since I prayed to leave Mrs Teape 's house and thought I should never be answered . |
| 13 | Perhaps because I said that even if I returned I should now be shot for desertion . |
| 14 | And I think I should definitely be awarded my doctorate as soon as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ The way I feel about you right now , I might just be tempted to snap your bones into little pieces . ’ |
| 16 | no , I wo n't , no I just get these for the kids , I might just be tempted to go in there and have a look though , did you eat all your others ? |
| 17 | I might even be sent to prison . |
| 18 | it will be change , I ca n't say , is it , I mean I said it 's a change of address , they know I 'll probably be moved in four to six weeks |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll always be associated with creating the Wimbledon monster , ’ laughs Bassett . |
| 20 | Whether I 'll be remembered as the most pompous , hard-to-get-along-with person they 've ever come across , because I stand up for what I believe in , or as the best athlete Britain 's ever had , which I think will be the case , I 'll always be remembered . ’ |
| 21 | And when I die , I 'll still be called Stuart Hughes . |
| 22 | I 'll never be grown up if I keep forgetting things . |
| 23 | Victorine cried out as soon as she saw them : that wretched child , I knew it would be hopeless letting her help , it 's too much , I 'll never be done in time . |
| 24 | I 'll never be mistaken for him in the street then . |
| 25 | I 'm sure I 'll never be allowed back into Russia — not that I 'd ever want to go back . |
| 26 | Almost dispassionately she thought : I 'll never be picked up . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll never be considered a Southerner . |
| 28 | I 'll only be gone for half an hour or so , she reassured herself : plenty of time to finish it all when I get back . |
| 29 | I dare n't sing — people who 've already booked might cancel their Access — and I do n't know which sketch would compress into the thirty-four seconds I 'll undoubtedly be granted . |
| 30 | I doubt I 'll ever be fulfilled , but I 'm less manic . |