Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] it [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In concluding his discussion of corporate crime , Box raises the question of whether it can be justified to send thousands of people to prison each year because they are too poor to pay fines ( in 1981 , 20,000 males were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments ) when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crime . |
| 2 | It had taken her all this time to put her life back together , and now it looked as if it might be turned completely upside down again , and all because of Julius ! |
| 3 | In the part in which she was standing was a small table and two chairs and an iron contraption that looked as if it might be used for some form of heating . |
| 4 | In Lewis the effect of the decline in the inshore fishing industry was all the more dramatic because it looked for a time as if it might be averted . |
| 5 | Then the odd whitewashed marshland cottage stands strangely palpable , as if it could be plucked from the scene and held for ever . |
| 6 | We should therefore be suspicious of any expository textbook which presents the criminal law as if it could be stated in a finite number of propositions from which all solutions could ultimately be derived without further choices at the point of application . |
| 7 | Althusser 's procedure has been to show that , within a notion of history that seemed as if it could be invoked on its own as self-evident , there rests an entire presupposition about the conception of the social whole that is not derived from Marxist theory . |
| 8 | There was no archetypal couch in Dr Kingdom 's consulting room , although a chair by the window looked as if it could be converted for the purpose . |
| 9 | This should be carefully looked for because it can be improved by biofeedback treatment . |
| 10 | Some management writers take the view that a matrix should not be resorted to if it can be done without . |
| 11 | In the UK , a merger referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) for investigation is appraised according to whether it may be expected to operate against the ‘ public interest ’ . |
| 12 | While this has just been confirmed for the next 10 years , until recently there was some doubt as to whether it would be renewed . |
| 13 | Unless there is significant doubt as to whether it can be collected , interest from advances should be brought into the p&l account as it accrues . |
| 14 | ‘ There are many reservations about whether it would be approved ethically . ’ |