Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [adj] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I would also support Mr Potters in the addition of the under-used term would I think be beneficial to the policy . |
| 2 | The commission at 2.5 per cent would have been 25 , and a fee of 4 ( 1.5 ) = 6 would have been payable to the clearing house . |
| 3 | Perhaps one is being a little punctilious , but some clarification of these , and other , matters would have been helpful to the novice . |
| 4 | The questions may have been terse to the point of harshness , but Bert seemed equal to them . |
| 5 | ‘ His name and face would n't have been familiar to the majority of Irish League fans and he still does n't look for a high media profile . |
| 6 | ‘ His name and face would n't have been familiar to the majority of Irish League fans and he still does n't look for a high media profile . |
| 7 | Such a copious supply of pure water would have been beneficial to the occupants , but it could also have been the centre of a water cult . |
| 8 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 9 | None of the overtones of subordination and all the rest of it would have been present to the Hebrew . |
| 10 | One suspects that this may have been due to a sense of betrayal , when Duke Philip of Burgundy 's change of policy in the mid 1430s turned Flanders into a hostile country instead of an ally , and partly to the closeness of past commercial ties , when the wool trade had linked the two lands in any uneasy partnership . |
| 11 | At the time when rent levels were falling , some less profitable land also went out of cultivation ( although the extent of this is hard to measure ) , so it is clear that the fall in rents must have been due to a shortage of potential tenants rather than to a greater supply of land , which might have resulted from the clearance of forest or the reclamation of fenland . |
| 12 | Not only have investors miscalculated the willingness of British people to join organisations — which may have been due to a lack of appreciation of the different cultures on each side of the Atlantic , disguised by a common language — but the benefits on offer through these so-called affinity schemes can be obtained in this country through countless other sources . |
| 13 | This may have been due to a reluctance to suck more money out of a generous population , or to the usual delays in carrying out orders from Moscow . |
| 14 | The demise of the Civil Service Department may have been due to a feeling by ministers that it was too conscious of the interests of staff . |
| 15 | This may have been due to an accident , but two Ju88s of 5/LG 1 were badly damaged over Malta , presumably hit by A.A. fire and force-landed at Catania on their return . |
| 16 | This may have been due to the tendency of the former to attract in young people , leading to net gains by migration among 15–24-year-olds ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 17 | The fungal growth may have been due to the water quality being affected by the chemicals , or it could have set in where damage had occurred as a result of the flicking . |
| 18 | The situation in ( i ) must have been due to the act or default of the ‘ other person . ’ |
| 19 | Part of this success must have been due to the Dottridges ' persuasive advertising : |
| 20 | This may have been due to the support of Steel-Maitland who was a founder member before he became Party Chairman and who later served on its committee on mental health . |
| 21 | This might have been due to the support from the student management system . |
| 22 | This result could have been due to the inclusion of mostly elderly patients in the control group who may have been harbouring M tuberculosis from a primary asymptomatic tuberculous infection , which was common in their youth . |
| 23 | This rather unusual development may have been due to the influence of Hu Yaobang in the Ministry of Propaganda or to a younger generation of journalists who demanded more honesty in their reporting . |
| 24 | To some extent this may have been due to the Stanleys ' own efforts , since they had the firmer territorial base in the region , but it must also reflect the king 's wishes . |
| 25 | To some extent this may have been due to the Stanleys ' own efforts , since they had the firmer territorial base in the region , but it must also reflect the king 's wishes . |
| 26 | In the deductive marking experiment there was not a conflict of beliefs , so the five-year-olds ' performance might have been due to the fact that the context did not highlight the need for a deductive explanation . |
| 27 | This may have been due to the fact that preparations for hosting the 1966 World Cup Finals were under way and there were fears that , as the English game came under greater international scrutiny , football hooliganism could damage the nation 's prestige . |
| 28 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 29 | The woman next to Mr pugh seemed to be in tears , but that might have been due to the compost . |
| 30 | For instance the increase could have been due to the taste of the methylanthranilate itself rather than the learned association of pecking and tasting . |