Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councils may eventually cease to be major landlords ( Coleman 1989a ) and this dimension of fertility differences will have to be analysed in new ways . |
| 2 | As a consequence there are books on many library shelves which may eventually have to be withdrawn , with or without litigation , not because of their content but because of their intent . |
| 3 | It can be advantageous to put each formula on a stability test and to leave earlier formulae on storage when later different formulae are developed ; the earlier formula may eventually prove to be more stable than later formulae . |
| 4 | For Virgo , Fate takes a hand today when a delayed or missed connection may lead to a contact that may eventually prove to be very beneficial . |
| 5 | This was , is , and ever will be , Dick Hudson 's , which may justifiably claim to be the most famous pub in all Yorkshire , or indeed the world . |
| 6 | This was especially true in Scotland , and in particular , Glasgow , which may justly claim to be the deaf ‘ capital ’ during this era . |
| 7 | While cleaning staff are busy working on one floor , they may suddenly need to be directed to another room . |
| 8 | Hence , worthwhile projects may not proceed or may be unnecessarily delayed , and plans may suddenly have to be changed when constraints are tightened ( see also Likierman , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | ACT-UP is the organisation I should most like to be part of . |
| 10 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 11 | The Astropath must suddenly appear to be possessed — with lethal consequences . |
| 12 | The thing is that I should so like to be the first to know , officially … ’ |
| 13 | you know you should only need to be told once Christopher . |
| 14 | At first sight it may seem surprising that if , as I am claiming , the superego is underdeveloped in welfare totalitarianisms because the means of state coercion are overdeveloped , it should nevertheless need to be dissolved in anything . |
| 15 | Faith is something which is merely believed , so it must always expect to be open to doubt . |
| 16 | I 'd say , whenever possible , you should always try to be in a position of strength . ’ |
| 17 | No element , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) should ever pretend to be more or less than itself . |
| 18 | ‘ If your daughter should ever consent to be my wife , Barney , ’ he said , ‘ I would be willin' to sell seventy acres of my land to you — but only to you . ’ |
| 19 | When the Bingham Report recommended a statutory duty for auditors ‘ to report to the Bank any information or opinion which the auditor knows or should reasonably know to be relevant to a bank 's fulfilment of the criteria in Sch 3 of the 1987 [ Banking ] Act ’ ( ie the criteria for being licensed as a bank ) , auditors ' reactions varied from the totally relaxed to the slightly concerned , but no one positively opposed the change . |
| 20 | They must also continue to be so for a reasonable time after delivery . |
| 21 | Children must also learn to be left to their own devices , to take second place on occasions , and to learn by their mistakes . |
| 22 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 23 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 24 | She should now aim to be 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) below her starting weight on most days ; she should reduce sugar on cereal to just one teaspoon ; she should use less meat when making up meat meals like stews , using more vegetables instead ( this is as well , of course , as maintaining the goal for fat reduction from Week 1 ) ; she should have salted meat or salted fish only three times a week in total ( you will remember that salt goals last for two weeks each ) ; she should have one or two pieces of fresh fruit each day ( this is as well as the goal for Week 1 , having pulses with one meal each day ) ; she should have a brisk twenty-minute walk each day . |
| 25 | You must really want to be doing something else but you wo n't let yourself admit it . ’ |
| 26 | Does she feel then that lesbian and gay films should simply continue to be included in the main programme ? |
| 27 | The main tenet of Sobchak 's philosophy is that a woman should never forget to be a woman . |
| 28 | Social workers should never have to be in a situation where a small child slips through the net and dies . |
| 29 | She watched his deft slender hands bleached by the light , and knew that this one could have been , should be , some kind of fine and meticulous craftsman , should never have to be wrestling with pipes , floorboards , beams that seemed heavier than he was . |
| 30 | On the other hand , if she is someone who has been used to dominating those around her , you should quietly refuse to be included in her ‘ managing ’ tactics . |