Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [prep] [be] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always wanted to study art there , but it 'll have to be London now , I suppose — if it 's anywhere ! |
| 2 | No it 'll have to be Karen and Andy cos |
| 3 | Meanwhile , my thought for today is : " If you want to understand Greece under the Romans , read Polybius and whatever you may believe to be Posidonius ; if you want to understand Rome ruling Greece , read Plautus , Cato — and Mommsen . " |
| 4 | ‘ All I could think about was Donald . |
| 5 | And all I could think about was George , about how I had nothing at all left for George now . |
| 6 | Sometimes then I was a bit embarrassed by it , because I thought I ought to be a little more revolutionary , but I 've always completely loathed violence and bloodshed and every time I dived into Marxism all I could think of was Lenin shooting the anarchists . |
| 7 | Sabine tried to concentrate on the intricacies of the unfamiliar service , but all she could think of was Rohan . |
| 8 | The only place I could think of was Stonehenge which must have been spanking new then and as up to date as a Hilton or an out-of-town Sainsburys . |
| 9 | Here she was , talking to Nigel , who , admittedly , was very attractive in a blatant sort of way , and all she could think of was David Kent 's long eyelashes and his beautiful brown eyes ! |
| 10 | All she could think of was Edmund , her young brother , her childhood playmate , her companion and strength during the endless months of darkness . |
| 11 | Daisy wished she could paint it , but you 'd need to be Lady Butler to capture that lot . |
| 12 | His gloom was reinforced because the Lebanese embassy had just refused him a visa and the only two countries he thought he could get into were Jordan and Romania , neither of which were likely to offer him employment . |
| 13 | She could pretend to be Celia , say she was unable to visit . |
| 14 | The one person I could talk to was Pat and she was great . |
| 15 | As an example he cites Europe ; his political passion — just as it would appear to be Mrs Thatcher 's bete noir . |
| 16 | From the facts given , the earliest date of taxability would appear to be April 1991 . |
| 17 | The key meeting of the Transportation Committee would appear to be Monday 8 February . |
| 18 | He asks a young girl if she would like to be Alice in Wonderland . |
| 19 | ‘ My favourite hairdresser would have to be Trevor Sorbie . |
| 20 | ‘ I am afraid it would have to be Captain Owen , ’ he said . |
| 21 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
| 22 | He was not absolutely definite that this group would have to be UI . |
| 23 | ‘ If we are talking about who has contributed most to hairdressing , it would have to be Vidal Sassoon . |
| 24 | Faye : anything wrong , anything pitiful and awful , would have to be Faye , never Roberta . |
| 25 | No one would pretend to be Jamie again , no one would get hurt . |
| 26 | More than anything she would love to be Kirsty 's guardian and , in spite of the harsh things Jake had said to her , she knew , if that happened , she would do a good job . |
| 27 | It may prove to be Margaret Thatcher 's most lasting contribution to her party , for it is changing it irrevocably . |
| 28 | It will have to be Luxembourg , and three old ones that we 've done quite recently , so that we do n't have to waste too much time rehearsing them . ’ |
| 29 | For half of the twelve tracks here , the Labèques use acoustic pianos ( that has always struck me as an oddity , by the way : a piano , or a guitar that was n't acoustic would be damned difficult to record ; the only non-acoustic piano that I can think of is Joseph Cooper 's dummy keyboard ) ; for the others we are told they play ‘ MIDI Grand pianos & Synthesisers ’ . |
| 30 | All you can think of is Harry , Harry , Harry . |