Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [adv] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew the grey tide must already be at full flood on the other side . |
| 2 | A claim under the rule will therefore be for physical damage , consisting of personal injuries or damage to the consumer 's property . |
| 3 | In selected patients assays of penicillin , co-trimoxazole , flucloxacillin , ciprofloxacin , metronidazole , and rifampicin may also be of clinical value . |
| 4 | More disaggregated spatial data is not yet available though earlier studies ( e.g. Padoa-Schioppa 1987 ) suggest that the range of disparity may well be of similar if not greater orders of magnitude . |
| 5 | Explicit teaching of this skill should also be of special value to pupils with specific learning difficulties , who generally find it difficult to master . |
| 6 | Although Mrs Thatcher insists that accountability should exclusively be through national governments to national parliaments , this is not favoured by others . |
| 7 | I know people get tired of appeals , but I urge them to organise fundraising for the echo-cardiograph equipment as undoubtedly a great number of people will follow me through the coronary unit and the machine will surely be of great help to them . |
| 8 | This does not mean that the focus should only be on short-term objectives , or that the government should adopt a highly-prescriptive approach in deciding what to fund . |
| 9 | If the soul 's fate was indeed predetermined , it followed that all human endeavour to bring about its salvation must necessarily be in vain . |
| 10 | ‘ But unless they get the crowds who turn out for the visits of Linfield and Portadown , every week , cash will always be in short supply . ’ |
| 11 | The MAS valuation of the business will also be of critical importance in the evaluation of alternative options . |
| 12 | By the time you read this , the last of the old American planemaking herd may well be in French hands . |
| 13 | The part of the surround which is adjacent to the fire opening must always be of non-combustible material , such as marble or tiles . |
| 14 | In the winter of 1984–5 the Government announced a cut in the annual grant for land drainage from £60 million to a projected average of £30 million , and stipulated that the emphasis should now be on urban flood protection , rather than improvement for agriculture . |
| 15 | Presumably each side would want to state its position about the quality/condition of the sample and the evidence would presumably be about other samples said to be of various qualities or conditions . |
| 16 | Far into the future the Earth and the Moon will both be in synchronous rotation about each other , the sidereal orbital and axial periods all being about 55 days . |
| 17 | Education can thus be of crucial importance in preventing violations . |
| 18 | Provided that the sound travel time h/c ( c is the sound speed in the object ) is short compared with the time for the impactor to fall through a scale height , stresses parallel to the axis should roughly be in hydrostatic equilibrium , with the axial stress at any point within the object being that required to decelerate the trailing mass . |
| 19 | And how much more attractive the area might then be to potential investor industrialists who appreciate the value of air travel ? |
| 20 | The most buoyant sectors of fuel demand will therefore be in non-petrol transportation fuel — such as diesel and aviation fuel — and in speciality products such as bitumen , chemical feedstocks , and lubricants . |
| 21 | The leading opposition spokesman will follow ; the debate will then be at large and , at the end , the Minister or another government spokesman will sum up . |
| 22 | ‘ The overall view is that much improvement can be made in these guides , which at present would only be of marginal use to a student . |
| 23 | In particular , since the socialisation undergone by a human being in the early years of its life will obviously be of crucial influence in affecting the attitudes and behaviour of the social adult , then the family , as the first human group an individual in any society usually belongs to , is clearly a socialising agency of major importance . |
| 24 | ‘ The face of nature under one broad and universal glare ( a cloudless midsummer day ) is not propitious to the feelings of an anxious spectator ; but this monotony can only be of short duration , because the declining sun … produces shadows ; these gradually expanding , uniting and finally on the setting of the sun … exhibit an almost infinite variety of form , of tone and of colour . ’ |
| 25 | Even though much of this information may already be in electronic form , retrieving the correct document from a database is not simple . |
| 26 | Lactoferrin may thus be of great importance as a non-specific anti-phlogistic defence factor at the primary immunological barriers . |
| 27 | This did not take place , however , because schools would be required to go through the process at different times and such training would probably be of limited value for schools which were not to undertake an appraisal for some time . |
| 28 | Launching a business with redundancy pay carried considerable financial risks , while training would only be of lasting value if there was a real job at the end of it . |
| 29 | The level of noise pollution from one of the larger aerogenerators which during high winds would achieve supersonic speeds at the end of the blade would certainly be of formidable proportions . |
| 30 | Because the net will inevitably be in close contact with some of the fruit , birds will still do some damage where they can peck through the mesh . |