Example sentences of "[vb mod] she be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 So why should she be plagued once more with feelings of frustration ?
2 Why should she be troubled by the mere sight of him ?
3 Should she be allowed in she will be lucky around the house , and serve the family well .
4 So why should she be protected , any more than the rest of them ?
5 And finally , was she perhaps being judged by the inherent quality of the coat-hanger itself out of which her creation was made ; and if so why should she be judged by the quality of the coat-hangers on which garments are returned by the laundry her parents patronize — since that 's their responsibility should n't they share her grade ?
6 But she prayed to heaven and promised that , should she be spared , she would devote the first fruit of her womb to Christ 's service .
7 Why should she be found in the Alexander Palace ?
8 If a woman has lived with a man for over fifty years , why should she be expected to get over his death in a week ?
9 If Vitor reported her might she be taken to court and fined ?
10 Not by any stretch of the imagination could she be called beautiful and it was doubtful if she ever had been , but she was undeniably attractive .
11 How could she be expected to remain calm ?
12 How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ?
13 You certainly had to be tough to live at Tullivers after the Admiral had gone , for Lucy Trigg , in her eighties , could not be bothered to have any domestic help , nor could she be bothered to light fires , to cook meals for herself , nor to clean the house and tend the garden .
14 She was not exactly beautiful , nor could she be classed as altogether pretty , in the strictly conventional sense of the word .
15 Could she be persuaded to buy more and , if so , for what reasons ?
16 If it might benefit Kirsty for him to know what had really happened between herself and Ryan , would she be justified in breaking her promise ?
17 Would she be treated as an outcast .
18 Her future would be devoted to her husband and children and no more would she be tempted into any indiscretions , she vowed .
19 On no account would she be sent to the Avenue Foch .
20 She did n't deserve such miracles , and neither , did it seem , would she be granted one .
21 Would she then be unable to return , and would she be trapped forever in that wartime world ?
22 Would she be taken out into the slaughter yard behind the servants ' quarters and have her throat cut ?
23 Would she be hurt or would she warn her against him ?
24 Will she be offended ?
25 Will she be transformed into an uneven , red-faced , patchy , blotchy clown ?
26 Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ?
27 So can she be said to have died as a result of the accident ? ’
28 How can she be denied ?
29 Nor can she be expected to .
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