Example sentences of "man [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He knows he wo n't live to see his Martian polar dreams fulfilled , although man may be on Mars early next century . |
| 2 | Should the media gain control ( i.e. should it begin to make Morrissey believe all he reads ) then the man may be in danger of losing all to complete blandness , and possibly worse . |
| 3 | It 's almost unbelievable that this has happened again.This poor man must be at his wit 's end . |
| 4 | ‘ Sure God save us , ’ they would say , ‘ is n't it soft in the head the poor man must be to be carrying round an old gun for to fight the Rooskies ? ’ |
| 5 | For men , the numbers are very similar : a small-framed man should be between 19.7 and 21.2 ; a medium-framed man between 20.7 and 22.9 ; and a large-framed man between 22.1 and 24.9 . |
| 6 | The genius of English painting was turning to the grandeur and the detail of Nature — Turner , Constable , Wright of Derby , Gainsborough — all coming here , sometimes no more than a few yards from the wood in which Mary was now making her way , also driven by the strange , indefinable current of change , as powerful and mysterious as the turn of a tide , which now decreed that the study of man should be through Nature . |
| 7 | Still , if there were villages in Ireland these days where a man might be in danger of meeting the same ill-fortune face to face , Owen feared he was getting near them . |
| 8 | And then the old man might be in the back yard somewhere and he could here that the bell going . |
| 9 | The old man could be on the way out , and anyone on the way out is inevitably a centre for drama . |
| 10 | He never realized how grateful a man could be for the chance to wash . |
| 11 | And yet the best form of relief for this boy whom grief had made a man would be in action . |
| 12 | A 90-YEAR-OLD Japanese man will be among more than 5,000 former rugby players from around the globe who will be re-living their youth in Dublin later this week . |
| 13 | The man will be in the field . ’ |
| 14 | So far , all manager Roy Walker will say is that the big man will be in the big game panel . |
| 15 | Yet it may be asked how a man can be at once free and forced to conform to wills which are not his own . |
| 16 | As Rousseau said , ‘ yet it may be asked how a man can be at once free and conform to wills which are not his own ’ . |