Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] be [vb pp] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In actual fact , all that may be offered may be a few strands of tobacco which , in many contexts , are assumed to suffice . |
| 2 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 3 | Their appreciation of the potential contribution of other members and the ways in which this can be facilitated will be crucial . |
| 4 | Today , if we pose the difficult question of the relation of poststructuralism to postmodernism , one distinction between them that might be drawn would be that whereas postmodernism seems to include the problematic of the place of Western culture in relation to non-Western cultures , poststructuralism as a category seems not to imply such a perspective . |
| 5 | All that could be agreed would be to loan trained men for a specific operation . |
| 6 | The most that could be offered would be autonomous areas within regional self-government ‘ towards which members of the respective nationalities , scattered all over the country or even all over the world , would gravitate and with which they could enter into relations and free associations ’ — some measure of accommodation to Bauerism . |
| 7 | In such circumstances , all that would be protected would be the employer 's " lead time " , the advantage of getting his product to the market place first . |
| 8 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 9 | Eventually , the star would be so dim that it could no longer be seen from the spaceship : all that would be left would be a black hole in space . |
| 10 | All that will be said could be put , although often less comfortably , in terms of individual properties or , occasionally , sets of them . |
| 11 | ‘ In many instances all that will be needed will be advice on the improvements necessary and a check later to ensure that they have been made ’ , while more serious problems need firm action . |
| 12 | All that can be done will be done generally right away too . |