Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [be] [adj] [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be grateful were you to bring this Mass to the attention of the people through your parish bulletins . |
| 2 | The second aspect of natural concepts with which I shall be concerned is their conjunctive nature . |
| 3 | States have shown a capacity for self-destruction in the past and wars have come with a regularity which would be monotonous were it not so horrifying ; history belies the claims of statesmen to be in charge of events . |
| 4 | Overcoming these rivalries , which would be pretty were they not so debilitating , has proved harder than talking about them . |
| 5 | ‘ From what I hear , it could be dangerous being your age , ’ he said shiftily , avoiding my eye . |
| 6 | Indeed it would be surprising were we able to do so , since there are some fairly clear empirical examples of industries where publicly owned concerns have been of superior or equal efficiency to private ones , as we shall see in chapter 7 . |
| 7 | What may be unusual is my conviction that constitutional change , a reordering of the formal arrangements of political power and the nature of the British State , is a precondition for the achievement of the other changes , and that demands for this change may well be the vehicle through which other aspects of the strategy are developed and used as a stimulus to political action . |
| 8 | They like training which they can actually apply , that has practical applications so say if you 're thinking of something like erm motivation styles or something like that , if you were gon na introduce Lounslow I du n no at the motivation there are loads of them one 's Lounslow one 's Hertzberg if you were introducing our training to a pragmatist what would be essential is you could actually show the practical application of it , if you just put forward C V and no practical application the pragmatist would say well this is all very well in theory , but how can I apply it to my job and if they ca n't they think well what 's the value of this . |