Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] [vb mod] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this successfully the choreographer must be able to select from the ‘ aggregation of objects ’ only those which are appropriate to the ballet in hand . |
| 2 | As she could n't yet swim properly the current might be strong enough to carry her away . |
| 3 | Each department takes part in a six monthly review of its teaching quality based on the diary records , and Dr Pearson thinks that eventually the school would be able to move teaching contracts to where the good teaching is . |
| 4 | And we decided that from then on the performance should be naturalistic , which of course was the point of Joe Orton 's dialogue . ’ |
| 5 | Naturally the library should be careful in its choice of business association ( from the point of view of image ) but the advantage of such joint efforts is not only that promotional costs may be saved but they may generate income for the library . |
| 6 | Naturally the purchaser should be alert to any signals from the vendors on such matters . |
| 7 | Obviously the puppy will be curious and should be allowed to meet your guests . |
| 8 | Obviously the software must be easy to use and manipulate , requiring the minimum of pre-knowledge and training . |
| 9 | Obviously the fishkeeper should be careful that the female he mates with a particular male is of the correct form for that male , as otherwise offspring are likely to be genetic mish-mashes of indeterminate appearance . |
| 10 | Obviously the tax will be regressive . |
| 11 | Well , I think there 's a bit of Irish blood somewhere in me , even though I am very much an Oxford person now erm obviously the car will be green . |
| 12 | The Springvale Enterprise Park held out greater promise because it is mixed Catholic and Protestant and so the government might be willing to fund it . |
| 13 | If so the requirement may be unjustified and the government may have no authority to impose it ( see the next paragraph for the difference between these possibilities ) . |
| 14 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |
| 15 | If a proposition , being certain , has a probability of 1 , then there is no chance that a belief in that proposition will be false ; so the belief will be infallible . |
| 16 | Roman medallions were made in small quantities and so the die would be likely to survive , while at Dalisandos no coinage was made in the intervening years . |
| 17 | And even if we do n't understand the argument , we surely understand the conclusion ; and so the conclusion must be false . |
| 18 | So the horse may be able to cope with one incident that provokes anxiety and stress ; but if two stressful incidents happen at the same time , the horse may be unable to cope and as a consequence refuse to eat or get colic . |
| 19 | But then what he then went on to say was , that since only the wife would be able to spend from that account , then put the money after it had been dealt with for the wife 's tax purposes , into a joint account , on which both could draw . |
| 20 | In the family proceedings court s69(1) of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 stipulates that only the following may be present : ( i ) officers of the court ; ( ii ) the parties , their solicitors and counsel , witnesses and others directly concerned in the case ; ( iii ) representatives of the press ; ( iv ) any person given permission by the court , eg trainee social workers , researchers etc . |
| 21 | ‘ Only the pilot will be able to tell us what he was thinking in the seconds before he ejected , ’ said Mr Richard Colley , spokesman for the Upper Heyford base . |
| 22 | Only the dynasty would be new . |
| 23 | Though only the exporter will be able to judge the persons with whom he should do business , help in making the initial contacts is available through the banks by way of : — |
| 24 | It does n't take very long to master shaping methods and fairly soon the shaping can be hand-tooled with scarcely a check to the actual knitting while we attend to it . |
| 25 | Soon the box will be full again . |
| 26 | Soon the place would be full of various bits and pieces that Joe Maitland bought in bulk from the manufacturers and sold to outlets and stallholders in the markets . |
| 27 | The Meiji period ( 1868–1912 ) began with the surrender of feudal fiefs to the Emperor ; ‘ thus the country will be able to rank equally with the other nations of the world ’ , concluded the memorial of the lords who initiated this step . |
| 28 | If we choose two points on the line , one on the left-hand side with a low X value ( called X L , Y L ) , and one on the right with a high X value ( called X R , Y R ) , then the slope is If the line slopes from top left to bottom right , Y R - Y L will be negative and thus the slope will be negative . |
| 29 | Thus the plaintiff would be obliged to show that he either bought/sold shares at an inflated/deflated price compared to what would have been the price , but for the defendant 's actions . |
| 30 | The use of the microcomputer is to be shown to be directly related to the curriculum and to enhance pupils ' learning , thus the project must be curriculum-based and not restricted to pupils ' use of the library for general work . |