Example sentences of "he [modal v] be [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Athelstan was pleased to see that it was empty and insisted that this time he should be host . |
| 5 | It was inevitable that the Earl should be Lord Lieutenant of the County , and that he should be President of the Lancashire Unionists . |
| 6 | It was natural that he should be President of the Constituent Assembly when it met . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He must be head of the Department of Dreariness . |
| 9 | That means he 'll be quarter to five ! |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | He 'll be cross , but I 'll go . |
| 12 | that the he 'll be sort of for a right . |
| 13 | I suppose he 'll be sort of |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had a stillness , as if he might be stone , or stuffed , or dead . |
| 16 | Just because he might be royalty . |
| 17 | In a few seconds time he might be face to face with the man who had killed Daniel . |
| 18 | He might be lord of all he surveyed , but it seemed he did n't in the least mind getting his own hands dirty , even if it was to assist his arch enemy . |
| 19 | She did n't feel she could bother Mike with the problem either ; he might be team manager , but like everyone else his thoughts were closely tied up in the cars and their drivers . |
| 20 | But he could be touchpaper , and a spark from a fancied slight , a disagreement over politics , a moment of heedlessness from someone , and he would catch and soon the conflagration was at full blast consuming everything in its path : new friendships , old friendships , new clients , his reputation , his wife 's love , even that . |
| 21 | Though , granted , he could be friend or enemy to the new man . |
| 22 | He could be Pharaoh of that pyramid , a Pharaoh with a crown of flies . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a pity that Stephen has met this girl who seems to want his every free minute or he 'd be company for you . ’ |
| 24 | What it came down to was that Erlich had one last evening as an independent , and that from first light , from waffles and coffee time , he 'd be part of their team and doing their bidding . |
| 25 | Pam smiled contentedly at him and settled back in her seat , reassured by Curtis 's confidence , and the fact that he 'd be part of the firm now . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought he 'd be man enough to — ’ but Leith had other things on her mind and wasted no time cutting in and going into orbit . |
| 27 | Er , I do n't wan na put the onus on Paul to do that , I I 've asked and said I he said he 'd be queen , you know be ke , that was before the |
| 28 | He 'd be upside down when you 're drinking it . |
| 29 | And if he was married he 'd be hell to live with ! |
| 30 | Evidently unabashed at the ideological implications of his re-orientation , Sope in July 1990 predicted an opposition victory in the 1991 general election and suggested that he would be Deputy Prime Minister in a government headed by UMP leader Maxim Carlot . |