Example sentences of "[be] an [noun sg] [conj] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any market may claim to be an exchange and may provide some or all of the key features of an RIE such as liquidity or transparency . |
| 2 | Other naturalistic views , Marxist and some which indeed call themselves ‘ evolutionary ’ , have often proclaimed themselves free from any such picture , but it is basically very hard for them to avoid some appeal to an implicit teleology , an order in relation to which there would be an existence that would satisfy all the most basic human needs at once . |
| 3 | The count puffed out smoke through his long holder as we shook hands , and then Paula Reece asked him , ‘ Vrin , be an angel and let's have a little piano music . ’ |
| 4 | I doubt if it 's an issue that will affect the parents ' distress one way or the other . ’ |
| 5 | it 's an option that would work . |
| 6 | It 's an injury that could disable somebody for life . |
| 7 | ‘ Mrs Lavender is convinced that it 's an infatuation that will pass once they leave here . ’ |
| 8 | At least arthrodesis is an operation that will immobilise a joint so that the bones grow solidly together . ’ |
| 9 | Comparing two objects , or sequencing a number of objects is an activity that can help to deepen understanding of change and continuity . |
| 10 | With more efficient use of the existing electronic information resources in our Town Halls this is an approach that could bear much fruit . |
| 11 | It is an issue that could split the Conservative Party . |
| 12 | This is an idea that could overtake current government policy that Bosnia should be a state of three faiths and three peoples , and provide the ideology for future Bosnian-Muslim terrorists . |
| 13 | Creation is an area that will come under strong attack from different sides of Coleridge 's character , if this is indeed the case , because the act of creation is involved intrinsically in every poem that is written . |
| 14 | This figure is an estimate and may change . |
| 15 | A one megabyte card is an improvement and can display no less than 32,000 colours at 640 by 480 resolution . |
| 16 | Occasionally I 'd get up in the morning and there he 'd be in the kitchen , eating furiously , as if he did n't know where his next grub was coming from , as if each day was an adventure that could end anywhere . |
| 17 | It was an image that must have haunted Minton for he told Nevile Wallis : ‘ I remember it since I was fourteen as it used to hang in my schoolroom . ’ |
| 18 | Basing the structure of authority upon a governor , a council for day-to-day affairs , and an assembly to pass legislation , vote taxes , and express the trend of public feeling was an arrangement that would seem natural to anyone who knew about the English system of King , Privy Council , and parliament . |
| 19 | She could n't leave them any money because all she had was an annuity that would come to an end when she died , but Mister Johnny 's got a little bit that his parents left him and Hepzibah makes some from the poultry , so they should have just enough . |