Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If muggers can be deterred by punitive sentencing , then some of them must be made an example of . |
| 2 | I think it is right that everyone should be given the freedom to choose whether or not they want to work in a smoking or non-smoking office and separate areas created to cater for both factions . |
| 3 | ‘ I may be leaving the show . ’ |
| 4 | PS : If anyone thinks that I may be overstating the Hart boy 's case then listen to his blindingly good solo album , ‘ Intolerance ’ . |
| 5 | The methods also suggest a similar technique , although I may be stretching a point . ’ |
| 6 | If I may be allowed a topical rugby metaphor , we had , so to speak lined up the ball for a conversion . |
| 7 | Current powers do not allow for searches that are based on a policeman 's hunch that someone may be carrying an illicit article , or for blanket searches that are carried out in a particular area or among particular groups . |
| 8 | ‘ The Syrians and ourselves should be fighting the Zionists together . |
| 9 | If he does , someone should be facing the axe at the end of this season . |
| 10 | ‘ But surely someone should be carrying the can for everything that 's gone on . ’ |
| 11 | If I am to show what I can do I must be given a chance to make my own complete performance . |
| 12 | People say to me that I must be keeping a list of all the attacks I hear about . |
| 13 | In the interest of fairness and the protection of fellow reviewers , I must be allowed the right of reply to Martin Collins ' extraordinary outburst ( Mail , Sept ) in response to my review of his book Classic Walks in the Peak District . |
| 14 | I was wrapped up to the eyes when I went u down to put my walking boots on as well because they 're comfortable and there were people going going round in their shellsuits and you know I must be feeling the cold more now . |
| 15 | No way , I 'm standing in a nice and warm place I do n't think I should be copying a tree anyway a trees a tree . |
| 16 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |
| 17 | I , I have a quandary here cos I 'm not quite sure whether I should be asking a question or proposing something against the deliverance but I have attended and er listened to a number of debates arising out of this matter of er the baptism of children and time and again it 's struck me that it starts off about baptism but it turns out to be a discussion about the parents . |
| 18 | Hopefully I should be having a car soon . |
| 19 | I should be having a car soon anyway . |
| 20 | I think I should be making the tea or I 'll fall asleep in the bloody chair |
| 21 | The school authorities decided that my diet was to be strictly supervised , and that I should be weighed every week . |
| 22 | Someone must be writing a book . |
| 23 | I might be getting a barbecue with |
| 24 | Yeah , but Jeff I might be getting the real thing tonight , er , ah , you 'll be |
| 25 | I might be losing a baby , you mean ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I might be blowing a bit or struggling against a younger player and Stuart will feel we need a fresh pair of legs . |
| 27 | At first I thought I might be having an out-of-body experience . |
| 28 | Yet , despite the desperate fatigue and the fear that I might be making a fool of myself , I was seized with a curious elation that kept me going . |
| 29 | She would have her hair nicely done and I might be doing a bit of sewing . |
| 30 | Conceivably I might be misreporting the whole situation . |