Example sentences of "[verb] they [modal v] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's the only way anyone could ensure they 'd be virgins ! ’ |
| 2 | When Dr Haritos-Fatouros began her research 15 years ago into the minds of torturers — particularly those who served the Greek dictatorship of 1967–74 — she assumed they must be sadists . |
| 3 | An elderly parent living alone invariably has problems to cope with , though , in some area of life , and ideally the people to help them should be members of their own family ; people who know their character and understand their needs , those they do not have to make an effort to relate to and trust , and who can move around freely in their homes , to sort through the various ‘ pockets ’ of their anxiety more easily than any stranger can do . |
| 4 | Leading them must be R. K. Cope , who took pictures of the trackbed , complete with rails , bridges etc , together with a number of shots of stations with rolling stock standing in them . |
| 5 | If the proposals leaked they would be dynamite inside the health service , and yet they had come round with only the routine ‘ confidential ’ security classification . |
| 6 | In 1988 , Karl Ludvigsen came out with a study that two of the big six would go away — he predicted they would be GM and Renault . |
| 7 | Other players assume they must be guests , or members , or have , at worst , cut in . |
| 8 | She had bare shoulders and arms ; a heavy gold and ebony bracelet ; an enormously long necklace of what looked like sapphires , though I presumed they must be paste , or ultramarines . |
| 9 | If it 's worth more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds between you at the moment and you leave it all to your surviving spouse then when he or she dies in due course and if those figures have n't altered they 'll be inheritance tax to pay . |
| 10 | This meant they could be midwives or nurses , but not doctors . |
| 11 | Obviously if the U F Os touch down that would mean they would be charge and not Bill Clinton at the White House . |
| 12 | And yet this does not automatically mean they will be quids in . |
| 13 | Wycliffe thought they might be Chelsea or Chelsea Derby . |
| 14 | He thought they might be finger rings , but was n't sure . |
| 15 | All but five of the players are from British Columbia which means they should be match hard and fit after a full domestic season . |
| 16 | She had always sensed the goodness in Sarah Byrne and for Paddy 's sake wished they could be friends . |
| 17 | He gave the Bookman a big hug and hoped they would be friends for a long , long time . |
| 18 | Others who spoke to Mr Ayob hoped they might be party to something big . |
| 19 | Vectors that I can represent as arrows on a sheet of paper will be two dimensional , that is to say they will be combinations of just two independent basic vectors ( 1 and 2 in my example , or " across " and " up " in words ; I do not need further vectors " down " and " backwards ' since I can regard these as " up " and " across ' with negative coefficients . |
| 20 | But even If the movements made by the three puppets inside their rooms might seem like dance to some — those who perform them must be actors who can dance . ’ |