Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [be] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ability to intervene effectively must be a function of his ‘ hands on ’ experience supported of course by his conceptual knowledge of how the system functions . |
| 2 | OK , granted , perhaps fort -five minutes of different fridge noises alone might be a bit of a non-starter . |
| 3 | Not to do so would be a betrayal of our hope that the founding principles of the National Health Service can survive the government 's reforms . |
| 4 | To do so would be a breach of their fiduciary relationship with the other partners , and contrary to s. 30 of the Partnership Act 1890 . |
| 5 | They say to do so would be a breach of health service rules of confidentiality . |
| 6 | Going down would be a breeze after this ! |
| 7 | Can I close by thanking Rod our Chief Racing Coach for what I thought was a very excellent presentation of the R Y A Ye Year of Youth Sailing and I have great pleasure in launching that initiative for ts er this year 's Earls Court Boat Show again it seems horribly self evident that it 's only through increasing the involvement of the young that we assure thriving clubs and associations and classes for the future but nobody up here is going to say that it 's easy and I believe though that the work that the official , the officers and the R Y A put together will make it easier than it once was and I hope that the literature that they have put together and the programme that they have put together will be a help to all of you so please make use of it . |
| 8 | The company of some elderly relatives can only be enjoyed for a limited period at the end of a busy day , and long evenings — every evening — spent together can be a strain on all concerned in different ways . |
| 9 | Any farm work that does come in can be a sort of bonus . ’ |
| 10 | This is , in fact , a common cause of misunderstanding in English conversation , when a question such as A 's above might be a request for information or an offer to provide some . |
| 11 | First it was a little bit of yellow fish for her landlady 's cat — the poor thing was half starved — then it was a bulb for her bedside lamp , and lastly she remembered that a friend of hers had just opened in a play in Manchester and there just might be a review in the evening paper . |
| 12 | Opening in July , the 200-seater restaurant and take away will be a replica of the original 64-year old Harry Ramsden 's in Guiseley , West Yorkshire , complete with chandeliers , tablecloths and carpet imported specially from Bradford . |
| 13 | ‘ The increase in assaults against the elderly nationally should be a source of concern to any responsible government . |
| 14 | Although the paper said that Wilko HAD made an offer it still could be a load of Bull . |
| 15 | He knows that the country now recognises that his party has been , is and always will be a party of high taxation , because it can not resist spending other people 's money . |
| 16 | Doing too much too quickly can be a strain on muscles and joints that are n't used to work . |
| 17 | Roxburgh 's licence to live it up could be a matchwinner for a Scotland side who have lost in Switzerland and scraped a lucky home draw with Portugal in their opening Group One matches . |
| 18 | So anything you can do to keep your home out of the official statistics really could be a matter of life or death . |
| 19 | Perhaps any attempt to sneak out would be a waste of time . |
| 20 | Failure to do so now would be a breach of promise . |
| 21 | They think their hour is come to close on me , and to deal moderately now would be a thing in their littleness they could not but mistake . |
| 22 | Mr Haselhurst said : ‘ I think on all the previous evidence the last thing that will happen now will be a fall in unemployment . ’ |
| 23 | The move upwards can be a sign of insincerity , as with Parolles and Falstaff , or one of honest self-revelation , as with Cressida and Hal with their end-of-scene soliloquies . |
| 24 | I think we 're losing track of what this actually is Paul , there are , you 're trying to do two things at once what you 're trying to do , I think is use it as a learning process for children but this is an annual report for parents and I think that part of it a at least surely must be a report by the sa member of staff , by the department on how the child has done , by the member staff . |
| 25 | It is recorded that the return journey from Fleetwood was achieved in 45 minutes , which surely must be a record for a tram ? |
| 26 | All the swapping around must be a bit of a nightmare . |
| 27 | oh well might be a chance to , gone on |
| 28 | But if this pattern is widely adopted , here would be a dimension of democracy which is as yet hardly known at all in the officially democratic West . |
| 29 | I say without qualification that home rule without proportional representation would not be home rule at all , and I would not support any measure to bring devolved government to Scotland which did not have PR as its centrepiece , for , however desirable it would be to create a Parliament in Edinburgh , to create one as unfair and undemocratic as that which we have here would be a betrayal of the people of Scotland . |
| 30 | Franks contended it was undesirable in principle that the appointment of so many chairmen and members of individual tribunals should rest with the departmental Ministers concerned , when it was their own departments which frequently would be a party to proceedings before a tribunal . |