Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] they [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Floppy drives and video are all OK but they might be in need of modernisation . |
| 2 | True , these sources overlap , different as they may be in the nature of their risk , difficulty , and complexity , and the potential for innovation may well lie in more than one area at a time . |
| 3 | Whilst we and other members of the travel industry are campaigning to have any such charges waived for holidaymakers , it is possible that they will be in force when you travel . |
| 4 | All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed . |
| 5 | The myriad instruments and switches initially make the cockpits appear complex , but they are actually about as straightforward as they could be in a jet trainer deliberately well-equipped with supplementary systems ( although the snug front cockpit demands good house-keeping discipline with charts and lwt-down books ) . |
| 6 | These courses attract both couples and single people , and a holiday atmosphere prevails , as the lectures are less intensive than they must be in the shorter courses . |
| 7 | If members of the chamber of commerce disagree about that , I am sure that they will be in touch with me . |
| 8 | These facts make them more reliant than they should be on the good opinion of their partners . |
| 9 | Ministers stopped the force contributing to this article , which suggests they are not as confident as they should be about its achievements . |
| 10 | Following the visit of our hon. Friend the Member for Enfield , North ( Mr. Eggar ) to Basildon last Friday , will my right hon. and learned Friend endorse our hon. Friend 's statement that the independence that we are offering colleges of further education and sixth-form colleges such as Basildon 's will enable them to be more effective , efficient and flexible than they can be at present ? |
| 11 | And now that they 've retired on half pension , they 're a damn sight better off than they would be in Sydney or Auckland , let alone London . ’ |
| 12 | Thus it can be seen that the records of Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic flints , few and sparse as they may be to the local researcher , may , together with palaeo-environmental information and some idea of such early hunting , fishing and gathering life-styles , lead to a real appreciation of how the landscape was used by people in these early periods in the area under study . |
| 13 | Important as they may be to the birds and trout , they can be very annoying to humans and , although they may not bite , the sheer numbers of midges and blackflies have been known to send birdwatchers — and particularly photographers — into paroxysms of rage and frustration . |
| 14 | We ask them to be multi- skilled , we ask them to use new technology , we ask them to be obsessed as they should be with quality add customer service . |
| 15 | There is certainly a case for insisting on the democratic control of the EMS , but that means getting more , not less involved in European politics , messy , complex and frustrating as they may be to those who long for simple black-and-white , left-and-right simplicities . |
| 16 | Sludgeful though they may be in pieces like The Space … ( complete with pseudo-planetarium backdrop ) , and while Warm Wet Circles keeps receding and then returning like some particularly tiresome romantic symphony , Marillion sometimes achieve genuine vastness . |
| 17 | They can be more selfless , more public spirited , more erm idealistic than they would be on their own , because the super ego can presumably erm influence the ego in both directions , it can make the ego erm transcend itself as it were to higher ideals and like someone sometimes sees this in , in group behaviour , but equally of course it can erm debase the ego by setting lower standards than the ego would normally accepted itself . |
| 18 | The precise nature of neutrophil chemoattractants in these disorders is unknown and they could be of a diverse nature including microbial , chemical ( including prostanoids ) or indeed in ulcerative colitis the damaged colonocytes themselves . |
| 19 | Desirable though they may be in special circumstances , I have always conducted a personal vendetta against glazed cabinets and patented bookcases with evil and malicious sliding and lifting glass panels . |
| 20 | But I do n't think everyone is as aware as they should be of the after-effects . |
| 21 | But although increases in pay have tailed off , Mr Page said : ‘ Professional firms are not as aggressive as they could be on cutting salaries . |