Example sentences of "he [modal v] [be] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He may be owner in fee simple , a trespasser , a mortgagee in possession , an object of charity or a service occupier .
2 I accept he believes he should be England 's fly-half .
3 ‘ I am very happy with the way I am playing but I accept that he believes he should be England 's fly-half .
4 When Robert Devereux , second Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , suggested he should be attorney general the queen ‘ acknowledged his gifts , but said his speaking against her in such a manner as he had done should be a bar against any preferment at her hands ’ .
5 James III 's idea of soldiering abroad , for example , to win renown and territory in Brittany and the county to the south , Saintonge , and in Guelders , was blocked by resistance at home ; in 1473 parliament tartly pointed out that if renown was what he was after , what he should be doing was ‘ to travel through his realm and put such justice and policy in his own realm that the brute and the fame of him might pass in other countries ’ .
6 Athelstan was pleased to see that it was empty and insisted that this time he should be host .
7 He should be miles away by now .
8 It was inevitable that the Earl should be Lord Lieutenant of the County , and that he should be President of the Lancashire Unionists .
9 It was natural that he should be President of the Constituent Assembly when it met .
10 Himmler is a nonentity who thinks he should be Fuhrer in Hitler 's place and Himmler 's deputy is Reinhard Heydrich who is brilliant and daring and handsome and will kill Himmler first and then the Fuhrer , if they do n't pre-empt him .
11 I realized he must be Catherine 's nephew , Hareton , and tried to shake his hand .
12 He must be Britain 's friendliest driver .
13 He must be Britain 's friendliest driver .
14 He 's got , he 's got , he 's got a death wish on He must be takes the piss and I go .
15 ( ’ ’ Then he must be Cornelius ! ’ thought Breeze . )
16 He must be head of the Department of Dreariness .
17 He must be Graham Taylor 's new John Barnes !
18 That means he 'll be quarter to five !
19 He 'll be Mueller 's European components ’ Planning Manager in Detroit . ’
20 He 's now 41 and with a couple more deals he 'll be Britain 's youngest ever self-made billionaire .
21 If you do n't seize one this minute , the Profitboss will , and he 'll be streets ahead of you tomorrow .
22 And that Royd — he 'll be Doctor Royd 's boy .
23 When the Collector mentioned this to Dr McNab he shook his head and said : " Aye , the poor man has a way to go yet before he 'll be sound . "
24 Well generally he comes up for dinner , but he ai n't today so he 'll be Rhys will come , be in for dinner , he 'll turn up about three , and they sometimes stay , we sometimes play game in the afternoon , board game or something , it depends
25 I think he 'll be m
26 He 'll be cross , but I 'll go .
27 that the he 'll be sort of for a right .
28 I suppose he 'll be sort of
29 He 's in all the typical things a young man who 's too quick does , that 's fly off the road all the time , but that 's part of the normal learning curve , and I think that he 'll be trouble for every team that does n't have him in their actual car at the time .
30 He had a stillness , as if he might be stone , or stuffed , or dead .
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