Example sentences of "[modal v] be the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As someone who lives just outside Brighton and commutes to Autocar & Motor 's office on the outskirts of Teddington , West London , it 's fitting that I should be the Clio 's new keeper . |
| 2 | Surely this must be the UK — kittiwakes , puffins and guillemots . |
| 3 | ‘ That must be the Paco da Vila or National Palace . ’ |
| 4 | Dana must be the Mrs Smith who 's booked into that hotel . ’ |
| 5 | And now they were turning towards Hoggatt 's Laboratory , coming in low over what must be the Wren Chapel . |
| 6 | Well my favourite shrub is , er must be the Charles Austin which is a rather nice one , it 's a cream well scented modern English shrub rose and it grows to about , well up here anyway in Scotland where I am it grows something like erm four to six feet and another one well , erm Aloha , it 's a delicious scented pink and a strong growing rose er fairly upright but erm quite a good one and again it grows to be about five to six feet with us . |
| 7 | Took out the map , found it must be the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Avon Gorge . |
| 8 | I know you chaps keep denying it , but it seems to me it must be the IRA . |
| 9 | This must be the Albertina . |
| 10 | Apart from the Club shows north and south , the highlights of the year must be the Belfast Championship Show in the north and the St Patrick 's Day Show in the south . |
| 11 | She had doubts about the road but then found herself driving along the grey fortress walls of what she hoped might be the Castello Crocetto . |
| 12 | Khan and the Husayn twins were making offensive gargling noises while dancing round a statue that looked to Robert as if it might be the Lord Vishnu ; behind them , Mahmud did his Native American impression . |
| 13 | Nursing a hunch that Kembel , avoided by all other space traffic , might be the Dalek 's base , Cory chartered Lowery 's vessel for this exploratory trip . |
| 14 | It might be the IB 's problem but it 's not mine or my team 's problem ’ . |
| 15 | Luke reports that ‘ … a feeling of expectancy had grown among the people , who were beginning to think that John might be the Christ . ’ |
| 16 | That car there , in the stream of lights flowing along the Parkway — that might be the Waylands . |
| 17 | Her uncle gazed at the tea in his mug as if the hot liquid might be the Atlantic Ocean itself . |
| 18 | WHO 'LL BE THE SHEFFIELD STAR ? |
| 19 | You know I was wai I thought oh I wonder if it 'll be the Orient Express , yeah . |
| 20 | ‘ You be Butch Cassidy and I 'll be the Sundance Kid . ’ |
| 21 | Erm it 'll be it 'll be erm twelfth , thirteenth it 'll be the Tuesday , no I think it 's the fourteenth or the fifteenth . |
| 22 | In five minutes , it 'll be the Dougie Down Under competition , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 23 | In five minutes it 'll be the Dougie Down Under Competition , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 24 | ‘ He told me he did n't think he could be the Nelson Algren of his generation , ’ Vanderford says . |
| 25 | The short answer to that earnest question could be the Sunday Times itself , which — lest we forget — was in the vanguard when it came to boos and hisses . |
| 26 | Birmingham 's Centenary Square , which could be the Piazza San Marco of the Midlands , is a bleak , rather pointless space linking existing civic buildings with the new Convention Centre . |
| 27 | ‘ Our guiding element could be the Durutti 's Brigade moving from village to village , liquidating the bourgeois elements and leaving the workers to see to their own organization . ’ |
| 28 | Amid predictions that the emergency meeting could be the SED 's last party congress , the Communists have accepted ‘ full responsibility for the deepest crisis in the history of the GDR ’ . |
| 29 | For he , or she , could be The People-ClubCall 's Star of Sport 1992 . |
| 30 | Or it could be the Saturday |