Example sentences of "and they [modal v] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they 'll be loads of room to fit in |
| 2 | but Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , we have , they 'll be darts matches , and they 'll be pairs matches , and they 'll be |
| 3 | And th th and they would be police ones if they 'd got blue lights and |
| 4 | Nonetheless , both types of abortion are pregnancy wastage , and their frequency in these data is further confirmation of the need for measures to enable young , zero-parity women and older ones with many children to avoid undesirable pregnancy outcomes , among other unwanted effects , and they should be targets for assistance in postponing or terminating childbearing , as appropriate . |
| 5 | So whatever verb is chosen will determine what functional predicate/argument structure is created — for HIT , it will be HIT ( AGENT , GOAL , INSTRUMENT ) because part of the lexical specification for the verb HIT is that it must have three arguments and they must be AGENT , ACTED-UPON , INSTRUMENT . |
| 6 | Australia are the best in the world because they won the World Cup and they will be world champions until the next time . |