Example sentences of "they [modal v] [be] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading them must be R. K. Cope , who took pictures of the trackbed , complete with rails , bridges etc , together with a number of shots of stations with rolling stock standing in them . |
| 2 | One of them could be Swindon 's own Duncan Shearer , who 's been scoring goals this season as though they were going out of fashion . |
| 3 | The last person I 'd let interfere with them would be Daniel . |
| 4 | But almonds , while they may be California 's forte and Renshaw 's prime product , are hardly the most difficult of nuts . |
| 5 | Wycliffe thought they might be Chelsea or Chelsea Derby . |
| 6 | The Seven had given them no real choice : they could be Han or they could be nothing . |
| 7 | ‘ Unfortunately , by that time they could be HIV positive . |
| 8 | If they thought the same way as Joe Punter , they 'd be Joe Punter , and somebody else would be having all the fun . ’ |
| 9 | In 1988 , Karl Ludvigsen came out with a study that two of the big six would go away — he predicted they would be GM and Renault . |
| 10 | To UK banks they will be VOSTRO accounts , the same accounts to non UK banks will be NOSTRO accounts . |
| 11 | Seven years from now they will be Britain 's top importers . |
| 12 | They will be Mikhail Gorbachev 's private discussions with Mr Honecker and his colleagues . |
| 13 | Among them will be Mr Martin Lee , expelled last week from the post-1997 Basic Law drafting committee because of Beijing 's wrath over his joint leadership of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democratic Patriot Movement in China . |