Example sentences of "[modal v] it be [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 2 | Of course , we 're all women here tonight , th , there are men carers as well , but would it be fair to say that the bulk of care responsibility falls on women or or is that is that unfair ? |
| 3 | Would it be fair to say that that 's a good statement to make ? |
| 4 | ‘ Sabine Jourdain was killed — would it be wise to pretend that never happened , either ? ’ |
| 5 | The ‘ folk community ’ is idealized , with no recognition of the huge variety of musical practices ( and social forms ) involved ( think of the differences between the music , and social function , of , say , West African griots , American Indian ceremonial songs and European medieval ballads ) ; in very , very few — if any — of these cases is there no class differentiation ( and thus hierarchies , divisions of function , and so on ) ; in none would it be true to say that musical production occurs ‘ naturally ’ rather than as the result of learned skills and conventions . |
| 6 | Now er with the vehicles on the road today more and more accidents And certainly motorways , and bearing in mind I would imagine , er would it be true to say that the majority of mo driving is done on motorways and dual carriageways ? |
| 7 | When we nodded assent , Mr Murray smiled ‘ And would it be true to suggest that my old friend Tom Warner is the Divisional Superintendent here for the C.P.R. ? |
| 8 | Then , and only then , will it be safe to assert that Parliament is no longer sovereign ; and until then United Kingdom courts will be right to follow the well-marked paths , even if this does result in conflict between the constitutional laws of the United Kingdom and Europe . |
| 9 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |