Example sentences of "[that] she [modal v] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind that she would be eating a main meal that evening , Fabia ordered an omelette and salad , and soon discovered that once Lubor had settled down from his initial opportunistic manner he was quite a pleasant lunchtime companion . |
| 2 | She had merely telephoned to let him know that she would be handing over to a girl called Kate . |
| 3 | Ron had rather hoped that she would be lunching with Charles Harvey , with whom she had appeared very thick while taking mid-morning coffee at the Grand . |
| 4 | So as they continued on through the trees to the fort at Ballingolin , with the blackbirds chittering and the smoke from turf fires coming from the farmhouse inside the castle walls , Gerald Hussey broke the news to his daughter that she would be leaving Ireland . |
| 5 | She did not stay there long , but retreated from the fierce sun to the stern-cabin that she would be sharing with Ellen . |
| 6 | At this Maria Candida , who had been listening on the stairs , let out a wail of joy at the thought that she would be seeing Portugal again ; Leonora went to embrace her daughter and whisper her blessings , while Gerald , who knew when he was beaten and was never any good in emotional situations , announced that he had important business in the castle yard , and would return as soon as he had attended to it . |
| 7 | On the basis of this analysis , a child with severe learning difficulties might have both delayed language , in that she would be functioning at a level below that normally expected for children of her age , and a deficit if her language skills were more severely affected than other areas . |
| 8 | She wanted to kneel down next to her friend but felt that she would be trying to get close to the untouchable . |
| 9 | Angel explained that she would be staying at her mother 's while he went to Brazil alone to see if the country was suitable . |
| 10 | She added that she would be asking for a meeting on Monday with a minister from the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | In chapter 17 it seems that Abraham did not tell Sarah that she would be having a child . |
| 12 | Mrs Prentice , had to wait until 2.20am before she knew that she would be joining him in the House , ousting Tory Energy Minister Colin Moynihan , in the process . |
| 13 | He was probably displeased too that she would be joining his friends for dinner . |
| 14 | She emerged immediately and dramatically to announce that she would be continuing with the contest with the aim of winning on the second ballot . |
| 15 | And now he was insinuating that she would be extending her stay long enough for a tour of the whole country ! |
| 16 | Diana issued yesterday 's surprise statement knowing that she would be making a public appearance with senior members of the Royal Family at the Remembrance Day service tomorrow . |
| 17 | Comfort had sent it from Paris to say that she would be arriving in Venice in the evening of the following Saturday . |
| 18 | Collections Curator Lisa Dennison has been playing with possibilities but told The Art Newspaper that she would be placing Brancusi with Robert Ryman and that the exhibition would include Kandinsky . |
| 19 | When she spoke to the old maid , she told her that she would be coming down in the morning . |
| 20 | She told Lizzie now that she would be coming down at the weekend and asked her if she would be kind enough to get her old room ready for her . |
| 21 | Her intervention — after dismissing reports at the weekend that she would be standing for the deputy leadership — will be seen as an attempt to block Mr Gould 's bid for the post . |
| 22 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've never met her , ’ she replied quietly , and deciding that now was the time to come clean — albeit that she would be lying in her teeth , ‘ She , Miss Pankracova , arranged an interview for — er — me , with Mr Vendelin Gajdusek for last Friday , only he — ’ |
| 24 | When Clare talked to Tess of their future , and the farm they would have abroad , she could hardly believe that she would be going through the world by his side . |
| 25 | She told Martha that she would be going out that evening and would quite likely not be back until the following day . |
| 26 | While he was in the stable saddling up his horse , he did not realise that his mother-in-law was only now breaking the news to Sarah that she would be remaining in Leeds . |
| 27 | As the hon. Gentleman has said , Mrs. X has indicated that she may be taking proceedings further , so it would be most improper for me to go into too much detail on this case . |
| 28 | Again she considered that she may be falling in love with him but this time she was not so quick to dismiss it . |
| 29 | She had not stopped to think that she might be inserting herself into a social scene that she had walked away from when she had left home . |
| 30 | Her blackboard technique was also extremely idiosyncratic ; she would write up equations , get them wrong , mumble to herself , rub them out , look them up in a book , and all this without any suspicion that she might be forfeiting the confidence of her pupils . |