Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For although Piper 's manager Frank Warren thinks Benn believes he has made a big mistake in selecting Piper as a first challenger and does n't fancy the job , I suspect the opposite is true — he may think it is going to be too easy . |
| 2 | I should think it is working the way of bringing back the workhouse through having too much economy . ’ |
| 3 | No it 's a little erm well I should think it 's gon na be the tuner in n it ? |
| 4 | So I should think it 's gon na be the top four that will go into a knock out competition or something like that at the end , you know ? |
| 5 | yeah , we 've lost an enormous amount of staff probably a third of our staff disappeared in the last twelve months , and I think y you we must recognise it 's bound to make an impact and here we are sitting here feeling a bit shell shocked and that 's no doubt one of the contributory factors . |
| 6 | ‘ We must remember it is played over two legs . |
| 7 | He must mean it is trying to hide the hole in its head . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , child , ’ she said to Artemis who was standing by her side dropping pebbles into the still water , ‘ I must say it 's going to seem a little odd not living here any more . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd better not move it or she 'll think it 's lost . |
| 10 | They 'll think it 's gon na be easy , and they 'll want to get it done . |
| 11 | ‘ A sweeping white beach fringed with date palms and oleanders … a sea so blue , you 'll think it was made in Heaven … luxury five-star accommodation , with a bar that reaches down to the water 's edge , and an internationally-famed restaurant where the food is as sensational as the setting … |
| 12 | Erm but one , one one , I mean cl clearly the policy which was pursued was one of inequality and there was a rich peasant economy and either you say well yes there is , there is an economic imperative for that and that 's the explanation or you say well there might have been a political factor involved in this that there was a recognition that progress was going to come through class conflict and therefore if you are actually promoting the kind of you might realize it was happening and you might be more prepared |
| 13 | Erm , and it was n't written in Marseilles , although the Marsei , the word Marseillaise , might suggest it was written in Marseilles . |
| 14 | Oh I 'll let it be known that your mother is a very good instructress . |
| 15 | Elaine might notice it was gone but then again she might not . |
| 16 | I think you 'll find it 's broken . ’ |
| 17 | By the way , I think you 'll find it 's spelt ‘ demeanour ’ . |
| 18 | And he laughed himself as he ended , ‘ But he did n't add , ‘ and the best way you 'll learn it is to travel from one parish to another , and that 's what you 're going to do as soon as I can arrange it . ’ |
| 19 | One might say it was peeled down . |
| 20 | And it 's ridiculous C for cat so you 'd think it 's going to be C for kitten would n't you . |
| 21 | He turned his head , mouthing eagerly , and found the nipple so fast you 'd think it was made of iron and he was a magnet . |
| 22 | so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer . |
| 23 | ‘ They could see it was distracting attention from their own priorities over contra demobilisation . |
| 24 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
| 25 | We we could see it was going out of control . |
| 26 | There were curtains dangling above my head , and under the frill I could see it was starting to get light . |
| 27 | Even I could see it was rusting away . |
| 28 | And you know from as soon as he could walk it was explained to him you know , that you must walk and not and |
| 29 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 30 | If that really is the way the authorities are now thinking — and ‘ readers ’ letters ' have long been notoriously close to official thinking in East Germany — then the government could find it is courting unprecedented disaster . |