Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , if specific hypothetical examples of such computations are to be of any interest to students of biological organisms , they should be able to distinguish reliably ( though not necessarily infallibly ) between equivalent changes in the real-world environment . |
| 2 | And if our drama is to be at all dramatic we 'll need to put those people in a difficult situation , one which confronts them with choices . |
| 3 | But any oath of peace , if its terms were to be at all realistic , needed to include the Aquitainian rebels . |
| 4 | If the charter is to be worth more than the paper it is printed on we need guarantees that appropriate action will be taken to the satisfaction of the public , and in particular , the complainant . |
| 5 | If the charter is to be worth more than the paper it is printed on we need guarantees that appropriate action will be taken to the satisfaction of the public , and in particular , the complainant . |
| 6 | Editor , — If operative mortality is to be of any use as an indicator of quality in cardiac surgery a system of risk stratification must be in place . |
| 7 | Site accommodation is to be within this area . |
| 8 | I said , I 've got my own responsibility , that 's mine , I said , but you 're only responsibility is to be in that lecture for ten o'clock . |
| 9 | Irrespective of the means provided to bring automatic roof vents and sprinkler systems into operations , automatic fire detection able to sense the presence of a smouldering fire may be important to reduce damage to some forms of goods if the premises are to be at any time unoccupied . |
| 10 | Evidently , if the design of text recognition systems is to be at all inspired , it may as well be by the best natural example available . |
| 11 | The lifeworld is the intuitively present , in this sense familiar and transparent , and at the same time vast and incalculable web of presuppositions that have to be satisfied if an actual utterance is to be at all meaningful , that is valid or invalid . |
| 12 | If a voluntary system is to be at all effective , we need a voluntary proxy for an SEC . |
| 13 | Spoken English was to be of less and less concern to the Review , while " literary language " , and especially that of fellow professionals , came to be a constant preoccupation , especially in the book review pages , where any lapses from " intelligibility " were regularly and severely censured . |
| 14 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 15 | The problem was to be with those institutions which had no previous connection with either the NCTA or the CNAA , and where the London degree had been a part-time one . |