Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be a [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 In reception a stunning blonde girl who should either be a White House secretary or in Hollywood dishes out the keys .
2 The popular songs of the day encapsulated perfectly its mood — patriotism , courage , facile optimism masking anxiety and heartache : ‘ Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer ’ ; ‘ There 'll Always be an England ’ ( even the Scots seemed not to mind this ! ) ;
3 ‘ We 'll never give in ! ’ said Our Gracie , and led the auditorium audience of 10,000 in several rousing verses of ‘ Land of Hope and Glory ’ and ‘ There 'll Always Be An England ’ .
4 My memories of that event are hazy but I felt that I should have somehow or other done something , crawled about the burning ground with my leg hanging off singing ‘ There 'll always be an England ’ and waving a tattered Union Jack over the hedge in defiance .
5 He hummed softly ‘ There 'll always be an England ’ and joked as he shifted the weight of his rucksack ‘ as if on a walking holiday ’ .
6 When Germans appeared on the west dockside , Bob Burtenshaw — still humming ‘ There 'll always be an England … ’ ran at them firing his pistol , despite his wounds .
7 And then the war ended , and Vera Lyn sang ‘ There 'll always be an England ’ on the wireless .
8 But he 'd rather be an Ibrox sub than a top team star with any side south of the border .
9 Blackburn 's likely promotion could also be a Mimms family double ; the Blacksmith 's Arms team , managed by Glenn , are in the semi-finals of the North Riding Cup .
10 All of these things can be found here , in an album which could well be a Bunnymen work , were it not for the absence of much of the pomposity to which they were inclined ( though , unrepentant fans will note , not all of it judging by track titles like ‘ The White Hotel ’ and ‘ Proud to Fall ’ ) .
11 And now all of them have months which are always the same length of four weeks exactly four weeks so you 'd always know the first of the month would be a Sunday or whatever day you choose to start on and the seventh would always be a Sunday and the fourteenth would be a Sunday and so on .
12 Sentimentality says that there will always be an England Church , and though you personally do n't do anything about or believe in it , it 's nice that someone does .
13 There will also be a London gig at the Kilburn National , although a date has not been confirmed .
14 There will also be a London gig at the Kilburn National , although a date has not been confirmed .
15 It will probably be a WPC , you 'll like her . ’
16 Why there will never be a Lord Dodd of Knotty Ash
17 Then it will be garnished and served — it will truly be a Pavarotti of a taste .
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