Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you be a district sales executive , a vice-president finance or an operations manager , you must strive to be the best in your chosen area . |
| 2 | No one had ever raised a hand to her in anger , and woe betide him if he should decide to be the first man to try . |
| 3 | To assert those alternatives and to insist upon them we mean that a designer should cease to be the industrial Eichmann of a large corporation . |
| 4 | Still , I do not wish in what follows to forego the support of what must seem to be the good sense of our natural empiricism , which is independent of philosophy . |
| 5 | The hour of death and mode of dying , however brief and fragmentary in relation to eternity , thus acquired a fateful significance — fateful indeed , if the death of an unrepentant sinner should prove to be the broad gateway to everlasting torment . |
| 6 | However , at the centre of the understanding must lie an awareness that schools and colleges have always been in the business of change , created by responding to the needs of individual children and students and that the child at school or the student at college must continue to be the central focus of all educational activity . |
| 7 | However important this is , it ought to be born in mind that what may appear to be the cheapest at the time may not necessarily be the most effective in solving a particular odour problem and consequently not the cheapest in the long term . |
| 8 | At first glance two tanks standing side by side in a room may appear to be the same . |
| 9 | On the face of it , the greatest guarantor of the reliability of the WTO armed forces might appear to be the 550 000–600 000 Soviet forces stationed on their national territories , the overwhelming majority of which ( 20 divisions ) are deployed in the GDR ( Group Soviet Forces Germany , HQ Zossen-Wunsdorf ) . |
| 10 | This might appear to be the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the colony , but all the bees in the colony are genetically related . |
| 11 | This aspect of the story has shocking implications as a representative of what might appear to be the random and unjust way by which salvation may be achieved — although St Peter always wins . |
| 12 | Very often such a team will achieve the unachievable and will overcome even the problem of what , in hindsight , might appear to be the wrong strategic direction . |
| 13 | The transfer ratios differ in different applications of what might appear to be the same thing : V8 Ninety — 1.222:1 ; V8 One Ten — 1.410:1 and V8 Range Rover — 1.192:1 . |
| 14 | This internal seniority structure and pattern of mobility might seem to be the sole mechanism underlying the making and breaking of gangs . |
| 15 | Profound disappointment and frustration , however , awaited those — especially in Britain — who hoped that American involvement in the First World War might prove to be the first step towards an on-going partnership . |
| 16 | All I could think about was the terrible consequences had we lost . |
| 17 | All he could think about was the impending phone call . |
| 18 | All she could think of was the two of them , and her suspicion that he was right about her . |
| 19 | The simple act of losing herself in a live stage performance seemed impossible , when all she could think of was the sheer heaven of spending time alone with Guy again . |
| 20 | All he could think of was the small , dark , murderous hole . |
| 21 | All I could think of were the smelly corridors , the dirty waiting room with cigarette butts all over the floor , the stares of the officers , the bunches of keys at their waists . |
| 22 | However , as the Worcester Post Man has changed its title to the Worcester Journal , the Mercury could claim to be the oldest surviving newspaper with the same name . |
| 23 | It could n't happen anyway , in the next financial year , it 'd have to be the following financial year . |
| 24 | I do n't think it was that Robert Rozario 'd admit to being the quickest player in the world . |
| 25 | Firstly , as needs are not static , improved liaison between suppliers and users could prove to be the best way to ensure a close match between future supply of , and demand for , courses . |
| 26 | Without records management skills and principles it has been and could continue to be the former . |
| 27 | I used to dream of being the next John McEnroe . |
| 28 | It was the Europeans who cultivated fish that may have satisfied culinary requirements , but at the expense of what some would consider to be the aesthetic qualities of a ‘ typical ’ carp . |
| 29 | The Foundation would appear to be the first of its kind in Britain , where the art world has long bemoaned the paucity of private beneficence of this kind . |
| 30 | As for the other Britons , Niall MacKenzie — who has loads of experience in this sphere — would appear to be the best , but the North West 200 promoters will be looking for a good result from Kevin Mitchell who is one of their key men for the May meeting at Portstewart . |