Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.

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1 On the rates charged by the ECGD , my hon. Friend will be aware that it is necessary to strike a balance between the national interest in providing ECGD cover for capital goods exports and the interest of the taxpayer that that should not prove to be too expensive .
2 We also saw how closely related these two stitch formations really are , even though at first sight this may not appear to be true .
3 As Fulbright presented it , in what amounted to a proclamation of American innocence and British guilt , the US had been had' by her allies ; and while this may not appear to be entirely convincing , Fulbright had picked up the importance of what Acheson had described as the danger of Ho Chi Minh 's ‘ direct communist connection ’ — and might , indeed , have gone further .
4 This may not appear to be a splendid dish , but its star-rating qualities are in its simplicity .
5 Now , this may not seem to be a feasible solution , except for the odd application such as electric blanket or underfloor heating where full wave rectified unsmoothed 50 or 60Hz AC will produce heating from a mixture of 81% DC and 19% AC at 100 or 120Hz and above .
6 This may not seem to be a very daunting task , but when a man who has been flying four engine jet transports all over the world is suddenly confronted with a young pilot who has just written-off the landing gear of a light aircraft while trying to land in a cross wind , the true qualities of the new inspector are under test .
7 This may not prove to be a serious problem , but having it happen twice in a short period of time makes me wonder .
8 This may well seem to be the most efficient way of utilising office time but when it comes to weighing up effectiveness the pro-forma is a non-starter as parents are antagonised by this bureaucratic and impersonal style of communication .
9 This might well come to be true in secondary schools in England and Wales through the formulation of a national curriculum and the defining of national criteria for GCSE and the so-called benchmarks .
10 At first sight this might not seem to be a serious problem ; one thing stands for others if it is used or taken as representing them .
11 This might not need to be quite as comprehensive as the full mailing list , but it will save time .
12 Muggers who decided to phase out mugging by 1993 could hardly expect to be let off , yet the UK expected to go on breaking the law with impunity .
13 I started with the bottom rail as this would also have to be rebated on the bottom face to accommodate doors and top fixing for side panels .
14 This would not appear to be a wimpish attempt to curry favour with the new bosses , but rather an indication of these affable dudes getting their priorities right .
15 Even in Oahu , where the solution is intense , the coastal limestone regions receive only about 1000 mm ( 25 in ) of rain a year and this would not appear to be sufficient to account for the amount of solution .
16 This would still seem to be so if most , though not all , the terms are standard — if , say , there are minor variations from one buyer to another ( e.g. as to the commodity or the quantity bought or the price to be paid ) .
17 That leaves £7.7m to be distributed but Mr Jordan said some of this would still have to be held back for litigation .
18 To these questions the following may also need to be added .
19 Where two tractors are of equal power , the heavier will probably need to be in a lower gear to pull the same weight .
20 Routines to plot circles and curves and shade in sections of graphs are often very useful , especially in the field of business graphics and these may also have to be created .
21 References in three separate contexts in Ali suggest that the lowest kadiliks of which the hierarchy normally took cognizance were those at the 25 -akce level ; and these would thus seem to be equivalent to the 20-akce medreses in being the level at which a fully-trained medrese student would expect to receive his first appointment .
22 A couple of firms still make traditional garages in treated softwood or Western red cedar ; note that these will generally have to be sited at least 1m from property boundaries to satisfy the requirements of the Building Regulations .
23 Answers to these will also need to be worked out and if possible these answers should be framed in such a way that the points you want to make can be slid in as well .
24 From such a generalized synthesis of the morphology of the small towns , it is possible to begin to define several recurring features which can help to evaluate our understanding of the overall level of complexity at individual sites , although these will clearly need to be refined as more new evidence emerges from the ground .
25 ( These will normally have to be settled at completion unless they arise from ordinary trading ) .
26 These will then have to be damped by paralleling each capacitor causing this problem with another of higher value and higher series resistance .
27 These will necessarily have to be spread over the next five or six years as , and when , resources become available .
28 He then dealt with those who were late and those who were late would then appear to be six or seven minutes late because of these other preliminaries .
29 That would still have to be shared only with Hugh , who knew the best and the worst of his friend Cadfael .
30 It may be that August 1 would now have to be a more realistic target date .
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