Example sentences of "[modal v] be this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Moloch 's Pit should be this way . ’ |
| 2 | It is not precisely clear why there should be this relationship , but fruit , in general , is more difficult to find than leaves , and requires an animal to range further afield to acquire it . |
| 3 | Possessive adjectives , however , do not produce a satisfactory result : ( 60 ) our bicycles damaged all had red handlebars your ideas discussed will be put to our colonel One may enquire why there should be this contrast , since it seems easy enough to see what meaning should be attached to each of the sentences of ( 60 ) . |
| 4 | In fact if one thing marks out a Christian as being different it should be this thing called ‘ love ’ . |
| 5 | One of Einstein 's insights was to infer that because mass generalizes to mass/energy in SR it must be this mass/energy that causes the curvature of space–time . |
| 6 | Must be this wedding you 're going to tomorrow . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry , it must be this line . ’ |
| 8 | said there might be this afternoon . |
| 9 | Last year it was Billy Casper , but who it might be this time is anybody 's guess . |
| 10 | it might be this store one , that I do n't know . |
| 11 | Or non-playing position as it 'll be this weekend . |
| 12 | ‘ Would it be too much trouble , ’ she enquired sarcastically , ‘ to tell me exactly where we 'll be this time tomorrow ? ’ |
| 13 | But definitely post-Christian because I do not believe that there could be this uniqueness : that God could be related in a particular way to a particular age or to one particular person Jesus Christ . |
| 14 | Now I am not myself a Christian because I do not believe that there could be this particularity . |
| 15 | or it could be this week , er you know how they have the January and they have it in Haymarket |
| 16 | We 're getting , if we could be this time next week , given feedback and come back with some response and maybe John , you can take whatever comes out of that on board in your . |
| 17 | It is excellent news that there could be this move towards a captive-bred substitute . |
| 18 | Patrick landed across a rock , and lucky for him the ride was in to break his fall or it 's crippled he 'd be this minute . |
| 19 | If the wind had been stronger or the tide just a touch faster it 's broken on it we 'd be this minute ! |
| 20 | It may be this kind of experience that led some Minoans to submit willingly to sacrifice . |
| 21 | If only he were here with us , my son , how joyful would be this reunion ! ’ |
| 22 | Well you 're right yes , it would be this year but I did n't go much at the end of last year did I ? |
| 23 | Her father had warned her it would be this way , his grey eyes unusually concerned as he sat with her in the club office . |
| 24 | If she dreamed of him again it would be this man 's face she would see . |
| 25 | This would be this concrete , concrete type of erm small , small brick . |
| 26 | When Grace Farrier rose from the table , the men rose with her , and when , a few minutes later , she entered the drawing room she sat down with a sigh , for she was wondering how long Aunt Nessy 's stay would be this time . |
| 27 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 28 | But Russia 's UN ambassador Yuli Vorontsov said after meeting Yugoslav president Dobrica Cosic that Friday 's UN session of security council foreign ministers could be delayed until May 25 , but he doubted it would be this month . |
| 29 | er let's see , it will be this afternoon some time , erm |
| 30 | The most critical period will be this winter 's round of wage negotiations . |