Example sentences of "[modal v] be [noun pl] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What that exercise predicts is that there should be particles mediating the influence of that field just as the photon mediates the electromagnetic field . |
| 2 | Accordingly , when Kepler first heard of Galileo 's telescopic observations , he was alarmed lest the satellites reported should be planets orbiting another sun . |
| 3 | Only four ordered solvent molecules are visible at this resolution , sandwiched between the protein and the major groove , but there must be others filling the remaining volume . |
| 4 | A group action may not turn out exactly as the individuals involved intended ; but in order for it to happen at all there must be individuals acting on the basis of various desires , beliefs and intentions . |
| 5 | Sir Frank , who had earned his knighthood by making house calls only at houses where there might be photographers waiting outside , had once told George he drank too much . |
| 6 | You 're paying them starvation wages , and someone else therefore is keeping them alive , might be their husbands , it might be the state giving them charity , it might be the state giving them pensions or unemployment benefits , it might be charities giving them clothes and food just to keep them alive , and that that 's immoral . |
| 7 | They might be surfers looking for surf , or spectators looking for surfers , but mostly they are just wave-watchers , bearing witness to the shifting moods of the ocean , timing the pulse of the patient . |
| 8 | It was a lot like hitting a room where there might be terrorists waiting in ambush , he thought as he opened the door . |
| 9 | There 'll be new acts coming in yet and there 'll be acts goin' before we hit 42nd Street . |
| 10 | When one caller transgresses this line of demarcation , asking the presenter Dolores what she thinks of a terrorists ' kidnapping , she replies ‘ That would be a little outside the scope of this programme Charlie , there 'll be experts commenting again in the morning to tell you what to think of it , why do n't you talk to me about yourself … ’ ( 80 ) . |
| 11 | There 'll be boys running up and down stairs , shouting for their Granddad Will ! ’ |
| 12 | There 'll be bombs popping all over the place . |
| 13 | They 'll be weirdos looking into windows there and they 'll looking a big beefy rugby player ! |
| 14 | ‘ There 'll be men working there that she never sets eyes on , ’ he declared . |
| 15 | And there 'll be marks going for . |
| 16 | I could be days working my way to the front of that crowd . |
| 17 | They 'd put a terrible strain on the council : if they all wakened up , right down through the layers of time , there 'd be cavemen mouthing mindless questions in the barren , gameless desert of streets and traffic , and it would be the end of the world . |
| 18 | and you go up this thing that winds in and out and like there 'd be cockerels sitting on the , on the little fences you have to go round , trying to peck you to death , er I was like only tiny , you know , it was just like |
| 19 | Erm so er i i i er , I think that erm , er er er y you 'll see that erm th th the the situation is n't , erm , er , perhaps quite as simple a a as you might , erm as you might think erm and , er , next year if that happened er , perhaps there 'd be headlines saying Pearson directors er , half their remuneration . |
| 20 | But there may be problems getting individual companies to follow suit . |
| 21 | It may well then have to face the vested interest of different institutions and organizations and there may be difficulties defining where some provision could fit in . |
| 22 | There may be difficulties knowing what forms part of the land and what does not . |
| 23 | Alternatively , for short journeys , a piece of potato or apple is provided , but remember when sending animals abroad that there may be regulations governing the importation of vegetable matter . |
| 24 | But there may be pirates hiding among them . |
| 25 | The ones you see may be queens searching for nest sites , such as old mouse holes in hedgebanks . |
| 26 | Of course , there may be considerations arising from the recruitment area which have a bearing on how computerization should be tackled in the other areas , but there is no doubt that a consistent overall strategy can be developed which incorporates all the major aspects of personnel administration and integrates them one with another . |
| 27 | there were hundreds of would be champions turning up at Eastnor Park in Herefordshire over the weekend to ride in the National Mountain Bike Championships … watching them race over 30 miles our man Robin Powell |
| 28 | there were hundreds of would be champions turning up at Eastnor Park in Herefordshire over the weekend to ride in the National Mountain Bike Championships … watching them race over 30 miles our man Robin Powell |
| 29 | At that hour a cab would be ages getting through the twisting streets of the old city and across the Thames to Rotherhithe . |
| 30 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |