Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them are rubbish I should think . |
| 2 | Because I am Vegan I will not eat de Rich , |
| 3 | As long as I am President we will continue to lead in support of freedom everywhere , not out of arrogance , and not out of altruism , but for the safety and security of our children . " |
| 4 | Now if I were Alwyn I would not be too proud of winning a competition to see who could use more cliches than anyone else . |
| 5 | If I were Souness I 'd go for the Charles Bronson option . |
| 6 | ‘ If I were manager I would … ’ |
| 7 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 8 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 9 | ‘ If I was Empress I would be a constitutional Empress only , ’ said Pakeezah , drawing herself up . |
| 10 | Sometimes it can be slightly embarrassing to be successful at something , and if you are beginning to turn the occasional head now that you are slimmer you may come in for some negative comments from your rivals . |
| 11 | He told them : " I thank you once again for what you have demonstrated : that you are people who can be counted on , especially in difficult moments . " |
| 12 | ‘ From what you 've told me , I do n't think we 'll see her for a long time unless your Mr Wyatt finds them , and while he thinks you are Dana he wo n't be looking very hard , will he ? ’ |
| 13 | A number of these things that I have already raised this morning are perhaps are , er primary phase issues rather than secondary but we must remember that the pressures on secondary schools continue as in the primary phase and finally another concern which you are all very well aware of and which particularly if you 're governors you will have drawn to your attention constantly is erm the continuing concern about our educational building stock both in terms of its adequacy as regards the size and the capacity of the accommodation at , where some schools are concerned its need for repair and maintenance work and its need for adaptation to meet the new demands of the curriculum . |
| 14 | Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know . |
| 15 | And maybe if you were Mandy you could . |
| 16 | Had we been animals we would have hunted co-operatively , bred regularly and protected one another rigorously . |
| 17 | As we are time-travellers we can peer into the future and notice that it is the professional class that will have the last laugh ; for the ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ( as Marx called them ) took over from the gentry . |
| 18 | Morland said today : ’ The city fully expects us to survive the bid and we are confidant we will still be drinking Old Speckled Hen Beer on Friday . ’ |
| 19 | When we were kids we 'd never of dreamt of this would we ? |
| 20 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
| 21 | Er I when we were midwives we used to say that was the way to bring a child up but w when you 'd had your own you sort of bent the rules a little bit more . |
| 22 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 23 | I think this is clearly Miller 's main use for the character of Alfieri and he tries to make this more realistic by making Alfieri a lawyer though I do not think that this is done very well as Alfieri does not say anything which would justify him being a lawyer as all Eddie asks him are things he would have asked anyone though perhaps he asked him because he was a ‘ lawyer ’ and he respected this and knew he would get confidentiality . |
| 24 | That they are solicitors who would have handled the situation differently from er the defendants . |
| 25 | If they are members they would find it difficult to refute charges of a breach of the Code of Conduct . |
| 26 | Obviously , too , they are policies which will take years of consistent application before they can bear fruit . |
| 27 | They are topics which will have occupied student-teachers during their own language-learning with differing degrees of explicitness and consciousness , and therefore are similarly relevant to the learners they now face . |
| 28 | Oh , I do n't know whether you need a brace or not , open , Michael do n't know what they are Stacey you 'll have to wait for them to grow properly , open |
| 29 | ‘ All three of these witnesses are , it is fair to say without intending any disrespect to them , not educated persons in the sense that they are persons who would have had any experience of judging mental ability . |
| 30 | Well as I 've s as I 've said earlier , erm what we 're basically saying is that because these erm sites do not perform a greenbelt function and er they then fall into a white land situation , that that white land is a is an area of land that becomes er at the end of the plan period in two thousand and six , er they are areas which could be considered development . |