Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | How could I not be when I thought of Mum Lying there in that bed day after day , completely wrecked by Dad having run off with another woman ? |
2 | I 'm all for missing hockey — how could I not be when my class coined a special place in the team-list for me : ‘ Lipman IVb . |
3 | ‘ What kind of mother could you possibly be when you 're working all day and out partying all night ? |
4 | he was n't going to let them go , I mean we were n't told any of that on the news , there was n't a word of that , it only be that from the papers that we 'd got |
5 | It becomes an argument about propriety : Smith says ‘ May it not be that in woman the physical pain neutralizes the sexual emotions which would otherwise … tend very much to alter our estimation of the modesty and retiredness proper to the sex , and which are never more prominent or more admirable than on these occasions ? ’ |
6 | Could it not be that during cleavage , when the egg divides up , each cell acquires special determinants , either cytoplasmic or nuclear , which would control the cell 's future development ? |
7 | Warlow and his supporters point to the fact that certain quasars ( highly energetic galaxies ) have jets of material emerging from their cores : could it not be that stars and big gassy planets can behave analogously ? |
8 | Might it not be that the glowing auras are in fact photographs of the soul ? |
9 | Could it not be that today 's mania for ‘ disseminating ’ and ‘ promoting ’ culture expressions which should be banned has actually caused the prevailing sterility ? |
10 | Could it not be that the same was true in quantum theory ? |
11 | May it not be that the outcome reflects the real motive — the wish to procure an external realization of a regressive , inner phantasy , that of the supreme parent of earliest childhood ? |
12 | Could it possibly be that his knowledge is power over you ? |
13 | ( Indeed , is Christianity true : could it possibly be that one was raised from the dead ? ) |
14 | Could it possibly be that she was missing something ? |
15 | Might it also be that the common phenomenon of token adoption of an innovation is an example of assimilation without accommodation ? |
16 | Could it also be that Darlington 's fun and games loving Labour councillors have finally had a change of heart over conferences ? |
17 | Can it really be that you do not remember ? ’ |
18 | ‘ Can it really be as you say , that fame — that vicarious life in another 's breath — will be mine in the years to come ? |
19 | Or could it simply be that the theory is grossly at fault ? |
20 | Or could it simply be that many of our best satirical writers were themselves college lecturers ? |