Example sentences of "and [pron] [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight the theme was an anonymous — but not a fancy-dress — ball ; no names would be used and everyone would be masked . |
| 2 | The kitchen was draughty but warm and everyone would be pulled close to the fire , enjoying a moment 's rest before preparing the evening meal . |
| 3 | The client knows that the CAB is there for everyone and everyone will be seen if they are prepared to wait . |
| 4 | David Howell complained that in Cabinet there was ‘ too much argument and not enough discussion ’ and regretted the trend towards ‘ a huge argument where tremendous battle lines will be drawn up and everyone will be hit on the head ’ . |
| 5 | In future trainees will go to another school and everyone will be trained together . |
| 6 | It is essential that the Security Service should be kept absolutely free from political bias or influence and nothing should be done that might lend colour to any suggestion that it is concerned with the interests of any particular section of the community , or with any other matter than the Defence of the Realm as a whole . |
| 7 | Nothing should be missed out and nothing should be assumed or taken for granted . |
| 8 | Kathleen evidently ran things around here and nothing could be done without her say-so . |
| 9 | It was her age she supposed , and nothing could be done about it . |
| 10 | She had come to the Centre in the depths of despair , weeping , gnashing her teeth and venting her hatred upon the doctors who had told her , at the eleventh hour that she had cancer and nothing could be done . |
| 11 | If anyone were to ask whether the cottage was for sale or rent , Mother Francis was always ready with a helpless shrug of the shoulders to say that things had n't been fully sorted out yet , but that it was in Eve 's name and nothing could be done until she was twenty-one . |
| 12 | He and his son John protested their innocence to a Parliamentary committee , and nothing could be proved against them . |
| 13 | essentially And nothing will be said But |
| 14 | If we do n't discuss these problems we wo n't get anywhere and nothing will be done . |
| 15 | Certainly I was asked about this er well before the er E I P er and we agreed that there w Well certainly I agreed that I could see nothing wrong with that since it is a cl closed research project , and nothing will be divulged at all er publicly . |
| 16 | Only I remember and nothing can be done . |
| 17 | The constitution still stands and nothing can be done until it is changed . |
| 18 | Aristotle also doubted whether there could be time without thinking beings , since he regarded time as not merely succession but ‘ succession in so far as it is numbered ’ , and nothing can be numbered unless there is someone to do the counting . |
| 19 | No one and nothing can be trusted . |
| 20 | " Father — is it possible — is it possible that Jennifer and me could be wed before I go with you ? " |
| 21 | Did you say to her , I 'm going out to re I 'm going out and I may be gone for a long time . |
| 22 | And soon it will catch me up and I 'll be bloodsuckled and toothpluckled and stonechuckled and chewed up into tiny pieces , and then the Spittler will spit me out in a cloud of smoke and that will be the end of me ! ’ |
| 23 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And I 'll be recalled . ’ |
| 25 | And what is more , I 'll give it or not as I please ; and I 'll be buggered if I 'll ask permission of some pushy little perisher before I do so . ’ |
| 26 | Only a few more entries and I 'll be finished . |
| 27 | I do n't live here , I 'll talk to people that matter , yourselves , and I 'll be guided . |
| 28 | ‘ If that delegation had got inside here the other day , you and I would be locked up in here , ’ said Nicholson . |
| 29 | ‘ And I would be honoured if you would bear my children . ’ |
| 30 | There were always cream cakes and I would be brought mine ceremoniously on a plate . |