Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb mod] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argue that Griffiths is undeniably a solid scrummager on the loose-head and they acknowledge that , largely depending on the nature of the game in question and the particular opposition , there are still plenty of matches where that can prove to be invaluable . |
| 2 | ( b ) Capital As the capital resources of the firm will have been reduced by the amount required to acquire an outgoing partner 's share in the practice , so that may need to be recouped from the incoming partner ( possibly with additional contributions being needed from the continuing partners ) ; or , in the case of an increase in the number of partners , additional capital may be needed to finance new activities or new offices . |
| 3 | The adoption of the contextual approach to word-meaning outlined in this chapter has certain inescapable consequences that some might consider to be disadvantages . |
| 4 | In the wild this fish is reported as attaining a length of up to 18″ with a weight of 1½lb although this would appear to be the exception as species of about 6″ are more commonly the rule . |
| 5 | It is difficult to envisage the numbers it would be necessary to accommodate during this period , however I would estimate a rough requirement to accommodate 30 to 40 staff , although this would have to be kept under review in the light of the public 's response and changes required to known data . |
| 6 | In many cases , database management systems will be provided with the microcomputer although this would have to be judged in terms of suitability for use by pupils . |
| 7 | Although this may seem to be of more interest to a mountaineer it does give a most convincing sense of reality to his hills and this without a sterile exactitude . |
| 8 | Although this may seem to be the logical method of connection , it will definitely not provide the desired result . |
| 9 | Although this may seem to be a statement of the obvious , it is in fact a very important point which goes to the very roots of movie making . |
| 10 | The Chancellor has abolished car sales tax altogether from 13 November 1992 , although this will have to be paid for by higher motoring taxes after 1992/93 . |
| 11 | ‘ Four weeks ago there was a lineside fire problem with a steam locomotive and our operations people agreed with the promoters that this would have to be monitored carefully . |
| 12 | Finance Minister Ruth Richardson said that this would have to be made up from other cuts in public spending . |
| 13 | It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole . |
| 14 | What I did not anticipate was that this would prove to be a matter as much of intrigue and scandal as of science . |
| 15 | Once allocated it should be a prime task of the particular worker to do a full assessment , in the knowledge that this may need to be repeated , as the health , morale or circumstances of the elderly person at risk can change rapidly with a knock-on effect . |
| 16 | That this should continue to be so is curious , as participants in many meetings covering a wide variety of subjects will often , when pressed , agree that the interchange which has taken place outwith the meeting has been at least as useful , and generally more enjoyable , than the actual meeting itself . |
| 17 | The Authors jointly and severally warrant to the Publisher that the Company is entitled to the relevant services of the Authors and is therefore in as position to contract in this way with the Publisher , and that this will continue to be so throughout the period of the Publishing Agreement . |
| 18 | Most of the top-flight executive search consultants who now operate at the very top end of the market have developed their search careers by some functional or industry specialisation and there is evidence that this will continue to be an important factor . |
| 19 | LATE NOTE : It is now possible that this will have to be switched to the Public Hall . |
| 20 | The tournament moves to Wembley today and Wright believes that this will prove to be to her advantage because the Perspex court is better suited to her slower style of play . |
| 21 | It is likely , however , that this will prove to be the usual way of communicating findings . |
| 22 | However , they apparently did not rule out eventual increases , although these would have to be met exclusively from the company 's own funds . |
| 23 | However , they apparently did not rule out eventual increases , although these would have to be met exclusively from the company 's own funds . |
| 24 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 25 | This type of marking is seen in the contrast of form between the French adjectives in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , qualifying a masculine singular noun , and a feminine plural noun , respectively : ( 2 ) j'ai besoin d'un drapeau blanc ( 3 ) ils passèrent deux nuits blanches In English , however , the syntactic realization of this pattern is in a sense the simplest possible : the adjective realizing the P has to be juxtaposed to the noun which is the exponent of E. Ordinary attribution requires this juxtaposition to have the adjective preceding rather than following the noun ( as we shall see in Chapter 3 , there is rather more than one might suspect to be said about postnominal attributive adjectives ) . |
| 26 | Good news for us but bad for them and that 'll have to be all for today , we 've been answering some of the queries that have reached us by post . |
| 27 | We will continue to look at er the future programme er we will also as you know , look at ballistic missile defence which is another element to this and that must need to be fact facted in as well but I think clearly we are not talking about in the medium term er and longer term , we are talking about er a fairly late stage of the programme . |
| 28 | She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her . |
| 29 | Two disadvantages of such techniques are that each word has to have a tag field added to it ( and this may need to be quite long to hold a suitable range of values ) , and execution of each instruction becomes more complicated ( and therefore possibly slower ) . |
| 30 | In other words , some iterative process between SBUs and corporate headquarters will probably be necessary and this may prove to be the key to solving this problem . |