Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] be [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't know who 's hiding in that snicket by the church — it could be the vicar or it could be Dracula , they look the same when it 's dark . |
| 2 | ‘ Forensic should be able to identify Harry 's blood , or what could be Harry 's blood , on the shirt-sleeve as well as Berowne 's own . |
| 3 | Remembering Lucy Lane 's description , he felt sure that she must be Anna 's mother . |
| 4 | ‘ So she must be St Agatha . |
| 5 | Although it might be Wednesbury unreasonable or incompatible with statutory purposes for a rule to alter common law rights , this should be deduced from the words of the statute itself . |
| 6 | He had a superstitious premonition that it would be Ivor Newley . |
| 7 | He could not have foreseen that it would be Mozart , 24 years his junior , who would be dead before the year 's end . |
| 8 | He thought that it would be Tessa who 'd yell , so he 'd already put a hand across her mouth . |
| 9 | By notice of appeal dated 26 February 1991 Mr. Pegg appealed against that refusal on the grounds that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in rejecting the proposition that it would be Wednesbury unreasonable for the Secretary of State to fix Mr. Pegg 's tariff ( as a person serving a mandatory term of life imprisonment ) by reference to a period of retribution and deterrence which was higher than that recommended by the judiciary ; ( 2 ) in rejecting submissions that the tariff procedure was in breach of procedural propriety in that the court considered itself bound by the wrong decision of Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 ; and ( 3 ) in rejecting submissions that the decision to refuse his petition should be quashed and viewing that the tariff belonged solely to the Secretary of State to determine . |
| 10 | The next time that she 'd spoken to her father , she 'd suggested a meeting in the certain knowledge that it would be Joe who would turn up ; and he had . |
| 11 | Far from possessing cruise and Pershing II missiles as purely retaliatory weapons after an assault by SS-20s , the strategy is that it would be NATO that would first let loose the dogs of nuclear war . |
| 12 | He did n't want to answer it , thinking that it might be Vasco again , but he could n't afford not to . |
| 13 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
| 14 | I thought about letting it ring , but there was a faint hope that it might be Sally . |
| 15 | Though the incidence of Becker is only one tenth that of Duchenne muscular dystrophy , the three families who refused a biopsy did so on the grounds that while they accepted their son had a muscular dystrophy they preferred to live in the hope that it might be Becker and so chose not to complete the diagnostic process . |
| 16 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 17 | That it should be Hampshire 's good fortune to see this show first was due to good friends of the Horseshoe Theatre Company who had heard there was such a musical and the linkage with the Horseshoe 's artistic director , Adrian Reynolds was made . |
| 18 | There was a vicious irony that it should be Brian , who always confronted the guards when they treated him subhumanly , who was now being abused like a dumb animal . |
| 19 | Whatever it was , he knew he would receive the truth now , however unpleasant , and was aware of nothing but thankfulness that it should be Abul Ismail here to tell him . |
| 20 | The Cape people excitably promise ‘ a spy story , a political thriller , a meditation on identity and a confession ’ , but it 's a racing cert that it will be Roth nagging away at his Jewishness , his Roth-ness , his menagerie of doppelgangers , turning solipsism into style . |
| 21 | ‘ Bearing in mind that it will be Ian McGeechan 's last game as Scotland coach , it 's a perfect setting for Gavin and his side to give him a fitting send-off , ’ said Best , who will be taking a video of the Murrayfield game back with him and will spend this week poring over it , looking at both the performances of Scotland and potential Lions . |
| 22 | yes but I think when you look at how it 's structured and whether it 's modular structure and its content it 's got to be written that it will be United Kingdom exportable not merely |
| 23 | Grand Metropolitan remained impressed by the thought that it could be Sir James Goldsmith 's next target , The shares rose 6p to 604p . |
| 24 | Then she realised that it must be Ianthe Broome , the canon 's daughter they were always talking about , and perhaps in some way a kind of ‘ rival ’ for the affections of a man she had not yet seen . |
| 25 | Everyone took it for granted that it must be Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 26 | The girls exchanged nervous glances , thinking that it must be Miss Hardbroom come to reprimand them for being out of bed . |
| 27 | As a young man , David Gower prophesied that he would be England captain by the age of 25 . |
| 28 | In an exhaustive reconstruction of his past , they conclude that he could be Suzy 's killer — an accusation Cannan has always denied . |
| 29 | Yet Mr Keating continues to believe that he will be Australia 's next prime minister . |
| 30 | He does say that he will be Octavius ' tent , and shall be waiting to hear how everything has turned out . |