Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] be [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the child , can be born to Miss Jones , have a father called Smith , and the child can be either Smith or Jones . |
| 2 | In the end the main beneficiary of London 's troubles may be neither Frankfurt nor Amsterdam , nor any other competing centre , but lots of quieter places that are not central at all . |
| 3 | They name him Xorandor because they notice that ‘ His logic could be both absolutely rigorous and absolutely contradictory at crucial points , some arguments could be both XOR and AND , or XOR and OR ’ ( 18 ) . |
| 4 | Falstaff as ‘ a masculine decayed cornucopious form of the love goddess ’ is amusing as a paradox , though how the boar can be both Mars and Persephone I do not quite see . |
| 5 | Only magazines as risky as Mediterraneans can take us into the sort of culture where the same writer can be both Keats and Dylan . |