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 . |