Example sentences of "[prep] it [modal v] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this book were concerned only with the unsolved problem of biology , 90 per cent of it would be devoted to two topics : behaviour and development . |
| 2 | Most of it would be devoted to Crabb 's bravery and service to his country during the war , the fact that he was an underwater expert and that he was always willing to test the latest equipment , some of which work was inevitably hazardous . |
| 3 | It seemed so dreadful , when one looked at Susan , to think how much of her life had been wasted already , and to know that the rest of it would be spent in bondage . |
| 4 | This agreement constituted and evidenced by this letter and your acceptance of it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and all disputes and claims arising hereunder shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts . |
| 5 | After the order has been made , two sealed copies of it must be sent to the interim receiver who must , in turn , send one copy to the debtor . |
| 6 | Though not all his points are equally well taken , there can be no doubt that he is right in his basic assertion that the Kanunname is shot through with anachronisms suggesting sixteenth-century alterations and additions and that any provision of it must be treated with reserve and checked against other sources before being accepted as being genuinely of the time of Mehmed II . |
| 7 | Prescribed particulars of the authority and any exercise of it must be contained in the company 's annual report and accounts ( the Yellow Book , Section 5 , Chapter 2 , para 21(p) and CA 1985 , Sched 7 , Part II ) . |
| 8 | In letters to charities she is warning them about the extra administration time that trustees will spend making tax claims and notifying changes of registered particulars , and advising them that much of it could be saved by selling existing investments and contributing the proceeds of sale to a common investment fund . |
| 9 | Some of it could be ascribed to a basic weakness in the Council of Ministers ' decision-making machinery . |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats would make education up to 18 compulsory although much of it could be done in the workplace rather than just in schools and colleges . |
| 11 | Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look , much of it could be put to good decorative effect . |
| 12 | They have paid the bill , even though not all of it can be covered from their appeal through the seven Welsh Wildlife Trusts and other pledges of support . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , The Duke was not preserved but a model of it can be seen in Troon Town Hall . |
| 14 | said , at p. 21 : ‘ The first question , therefore , is whether the bond of 1859 was obtained by the undue exercise of influence of the stepfather , and was it obtained under such exercise as that the knowledge of it can be imputed to [ the creditor ] ? ’ |
| 15 | The nature of the involvement was by no means uniform , but some idea of it can be judged from a single case . |
| 16 | The rest of it can be reduced to a combination of techniques and practice . |
| 17 | Mirror panels are expensive of course and you must ensure that large slabs of it can be got through doors , up stair-wells , and onto lifts or elevators . |
| 18 | Much of it can be attributed to his astute realization that it was possible to break with the disastrous tradition of Pius IX without compromising on essentials . |
| 19 | Of this , 55% will be debited to the consolidated revaluation reserve and 45% of it will be debited to the minority interests . |
| 20 | If an elderly person buys an annuity out of her own capital , part of it will be treated as a repayment of capital , and so not liable to tax . |
| 21 | Most of it of it will be spent on rooms for parents of children being treated . |
| 22 | Most of the increase is to cover higher county council spending plans £19.66 of it will be spent by the county while only £1.61 will go towards borough expenditure . |
| 23 | However figures out today reveal that the Teesside Development Corporation is building one million square feet of office space 84pc of the county 's provision for the next decade and most of it will be concentrated on its flagship site of Teesdale , Thornaby . |
| 24 | For the first dose , the bottle should be succussed 8–12 times , and one tablespoonful of it should be diluted with half a glass of water . |
| 25 | He said part of it should be kept as a monument . |
| 26 | But , in proceedings of this nature the general rule is that , where a committal order has been made , any further application in respect of it should be made to the judge who made the order , whether that application is in the nature of an apology by the contemnor or an application to reopen the proceedings by reason of the availability of fresh evidence or some other ground where no error of the court at the hearing is alleged . |
| 27 | And , ideally , part of it should be dappled in shade to provide shelter on those really hot sunny days that we 've experienced in recent summers . |
| 28 | We saw earlier that majority decision-taking , even in the context of direct participatory democracy , poses the problem of how those who oppose the majority position and vote against it can be said to be governing themselves . |
| 29 | The Bill requires the development corporation to operate the barrage so that the water immediately behind it should be maintained at a level between 4 m and 4.5 m above ordnance datum except in certain circumstances defined in the Bill . |
| 30 | Every new subject which emerges in the literature and has a reasonable number of documents associated with it must be added to the list in the enumerative scheme . |