Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [adv] [be] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To love one 's neighbour , she thought as she trudged resolutely up the Finchley Road , must surely often be an effort of the will rather than a pleasurable upsurging of emotion . |
| 2 | The Report , as well as recommending that homosexual relations between adults in private should no longer be an offence , and that the age of consent should be 21 , also sought to increase substantially the maximum penalties in respect of certain offences . |
| 3 | It was a satisfaction to me many years later , when I was a member of a Royal Commission on Tribunals of Enquiry , established to advise how secrets should be dealt with , that I was able to persuade the chairman of the Commission , Lord Salmon , and through him the whole of the Commission , to recommend that there should never again be an inquiry of the Denning type , where a single individual was authorised to investigate any piece of gossip or scandal relating to any prominent public person . |
| 4 | And we in the church may not yet be an army ‘ mighty and terrible with banners ’ , but we can muster resistance by coming together in little bands of hope ready to strike in deep raids behind enemy lines . |
| 5 | However , while returning home with the Cup might not quite be an occasion for breaking out the ticker tape and launching into an orgy of street parties , it would be nice to see England do well , and there is no reason why they should not . |
| 6 | This could very well be an underestimate since the government 's spending plans are based on an estimated growth in the economy of only 1.25 per cent in 1990/91 . |
| 7 | The producer , it turns out , need not initially be an asset owner . |
| 8 | The research project would not simply be an audit , nor was it being commissioned as an expression of lack of confidence . |
| 9 | In America a journalist was sent to prison for refusing to disclose information which could have revealed the innocence of a person on trial , but prison would not normally be an option in a civil case . |
| 10 | Our belief was that this would not only be an attraction to City workers but a major facility for the millions of visitors to the Tower of London . |
| 11 | ‘ But they ca n't just be an end resort , when the venture has no chance anyway . |
| 12 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |
| 13 | Windows would then actually be an operating system . |
| 14 | There would quite rightly be an outcry if Labour took this course of action . |
| 15 | This raises the prospect of fully integrated systems for which the sourcing of individual components such as drivers , memory chips and processors on the world market would no longer be an issue . |
| 16 | The judgment obtained by O against Z will not normally be an order to Z to return the goods . |
| 17 | Furthermore , while an individual can waive his right to a hearing , it will not always be an option open to him . |
| 18 | MIDDLESBROUGH 'S annual ten kilometre road race will almost certainly be an event on its own this year and is expected to attract 700 runners . |
| 19 | Or ask your seller to obtain and let you have office copies , which will almost certainly be an obligation under the contract . |
| 20 | In the latter case addressing will probably only point to a bucket number , and in searching the bucket for a particular record using the direct technique it will no longer be an error to detect a dummy record , but part of the search . |
| 21 | In general , the complications introduced by having to predict changes both of system and of behaviour are so great that most forecasters assume that the system will not change ( except by evolution ) and claim that if everything is going to change there is not much point in having a forecast anyway because there will no longer be an organisation to act upon it . |
| 22 | And the financial record of Witney 's Conservatives will no longer be an embarassment to the MP and Government Minister they 're trying to support . |
| 23 | And the financial record of Witney 's Conservatives will no longer be an embarassment to the MP and Government Minister they 're trying to support . |
| 24 | But for Alice and Henry this will no longer be an option . |
| 25 | But that will no longer be an option in future . |
| 26 | No official of the Government or Party can go to an ujamaa village and tell the members what they must grow … for if these things happen — that is , if an outsider gives such instructions and enforces them — then it will no longer be an ujamaa village ! |
| 27 | He will no longer be an alien in his own land . |
| 28 | Henceforth probation work will no longer be an alternative to punishment but an alternative form of punishment . |
| 29 | Indeed , it may very well be an area where some programs can be of immediate and wide-ranging use to teachers . |
| 30 | But this can only ever be an after-image , a look-alike , inside out . |