Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So could be Neil Mallender , now deservedly the Test bowler he never really thought he 'd be . |
| 2 | Dot 's heart began pounding , first with anxiety , then with an irrational hope that it just might be Mr Brown who was back . |
| 3 | I suppose it just could be Uncle Cosmo , although I 'd be sad to hear he 'd died . |
| 4 | The first target tonight will be Brian Close , the former Yorkshire and England captain and now chairman of the cricket sub-committee , on which he is supported by such luminaries as Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott and Bob Platt , all ex-players . |
| 5 | The key figure tonight will be Dennis Brian Close . |
| 6 | Coming into the OFMC fold soon will be Spitfire Vc AR614 from Canada . |
| 7 | Of all the Bletchley eccentrics I suppose the most celebrated now must be Alan Turing , largely because he has been the subject of Hugh Whitemore 's very successful play Breaking the Code . |
| 8 | According to sources close to Mr Mandela himself , the first two men out will be Wilton Mkwayi and Elias Motsoaledi , a very influential member of the ANC old guard with positions of leadership both in the union movement and in the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe . |
| 9 | Tomorrow should be Call Kaye but this week Kaye 's taking a break and so we 'll have — |
| 10 | There is a story do n't give the answer away but who would you say is very positive , one of the most aggressive chat show hosts in , say , today could be I T V or B B C ? |
| 11 | Jamie and Cindy 's opposite numbers here could be actress Emma Thompson and model Paula Hamilton . |
| 12 | Good Lord , Athelstan thought , anyone here could be Sir Ralph 's murderer . |
| 13 | I think erm my two , or perhaps three , favourite novelists for today would be William Golding , Graham Greene and Iris Murdoch , and it seems to me that at least part of their importance is that they are really concerned with moral themes , as George Eliot was , even though , like George Eliot , they are shy about forcing a particular moral down the throat of a reader . |
| 14 | Corsie 's semi-final opponent tomorrow will be Gary Smith who beat him in the final of the UK Championship five years ago . |
| 15 | Corsie 's semi-final opponent tomorrow will be Gary Smith who beat him in the final of the UK Championship five years ago . |
| 16 | The other non-English players today will be Brian McClair , keeper Peter Schmeichel , Mark Hughes and Denis Irwin . |
| 17 | By the time he got back there 'd be search parties out looking for him . |
| 18 | Ryzhkov said that 135,000 million roubles ( 70 per cent of the revenue from increased retail prices ) had been earmarked for wage increases and social security payments to alleviate the effect of the price rises in 1991 , and he stressed that as the gradual transition to free prices was carried out there would be wage indexation . |
| 19 | Anyone else would be spending money prematurely because the benefits of additional quota would apply to a 1994 claim only . |