Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [modal v] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drug users say they could be at increased risk from AIDS after a decision to stop giving them free clean syringes . |
| 2 | All the time when there is an H I V antibody test it must be with informed consent from the patient or staff member . |
| 3 | Moynihan and his growing body of supporters ridiculed this proposal , and many commentators felt that the administration would find it very difficult to reject Moynihan 's demand for an immediate social security tax cut ( which would benefit all citizens ) whilst pursuing a reduction in capital gains tax which would be of chief benefit to those who were already among the most wealthy . |
| 4 | The point I 'm trying to get at sir is that erm it is none of it is in none of our interests , either the planning authorities or even of the developers , that if we were to erm find a strategic sites policy appropriate for this alteration , it 's in none of our interests that it should be confusing to the public or to the development industry as to how rare a thing this should be and how tightly directed it should be in geographical terms . |
| 5 | The Home Guard became a joke for some and a remark once passed in my company was " What use do you think you would be against trained troops ? " . |
| 6 | When any goods are bought they should be of merchantable quality . |
| 7 | As a result the remedy can be repeated without causing the patient any aggravation ; or if aggravation should occur it will be of short duration , easily controlled . |
| 8 | The infant , which was incidentally precisely what we predicted he would be in physical makeup , sex , coloring , and so on , was born here seven days ago . |
| 9 | Anything you tell me will be in strict confidence if it 's got nothing to do with our enquiries . |
| 10 | The first is the provision of a data set which will be of general value to the social scientific community and which will enable scholars in the field of electoral behaviour to update and develop their research . |
| 11 | Just as you know you must be in certain lecture halls for certain regular lectures , so you need to know where you should be for other forms of study . |
| 12 | My father thinks they should be in curved lines . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been sleeping for hours , so I thought you might be about ready to get up . ’ |
| 14 | However , when you tack it should be for tactical reasons . |
| 15 | I warned him that unless he adhered strictly to the regimen I prescribed he would be at considerable risk . ’ |
| 16 | As I say , we 're now , we shall now be working on the er , on a financial strategy , so that we 've got more detailed costings er , available to us , erm , but I think members will be interested to know that erm , within the next few months there will , we shall be taking part , er , as part of a wider national exercise , in an exercise undertaken by the District Audit Commission , on Children 's Services , so that we , I think we shall be in good stead , to have this as a base as a working document for that erm , Audit Commission exercise . |
| 17 | If we knew that , I think we 'd be beyond reasonable doubt . |
| 18 | If they concede another goal again now I think they could be in serious trouble again . |
| 19 | I have noted that flicking is very common where such a substrate is used and I think it may be from mechanical irritation of the gills by tiny bits of coral suspended in the water . |
| 20 | They want to use condoms — nine out of 10 agreed it was sensible to carry condoms ‘ just in case ’ — but half those surveyed said they would be to embarrassed to buy them . |
| 21 | Roy said he would be in joint forces on the territory probably at the beginning of this quarter , erm , so far so good . |
| 22 | He said , ‘ There 's absolutely nothing to see and it 's awfully full of nettles ’ ; at the same moment Jean Powers was saying noisily that not a solitary soul had been into the Britches in years and the village wondered what Edward got up to in there — ha ha ! — some people said he must be into black magic , or maybe he was growing cannabis . |
| 23 | In his sixth and final campaign speech on March 13 , in the town of Cottbus , north-east of Dresden , Kohl declared : " We want savers to know that when the change in currency comes it will be at one-to-one for them . |