Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] be [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , firms ' employment policies may be discriminatory even when they appear not to be . |
| 2 | Thus labelling rules may be necessary so that , for example , consumers know what ‘ pure wool ’ really means . |
| 3 | When entertaining , much depends on the kind of entertainment you like , and what adaptations may be possible so that it is still a pleasure and not a strain . |
| 4 | Goals should be flexible so that failure in one term does not preclude redemption and success the next . |
| 5 | Perhaps one day computers will be big enough and numerical analysts clever enough so that the engineer will only have to pose the problem , but not yet , and not , I think , for some time to come . |
| 6 | We restricted our comments to the design of pending trials in the United States that are a matter of considerable debate , and suggested that such trials should be comparative precisely because , as and say , ‘ it is not known which specific immune responses are required for therapeutic benefit ’ . |
| 7 | More practical guidance , advice and support in those areas would be valuable particularly if it came from within librarianship rather than management science generally . |
| 8 | In some pain-dominant patients with IBS , tricyclic antidepressants may be helpful even if depression is not obvious . |
| 9 | These assumptions may be valid only as approximations in some cases , and in others may be obviously inappropriate . |
| 10 | By 1875 fashions in England and the USA decreed that coats should be whole-coloured rather than broken and that the skin should be yellow , the muzzle dark and the tongue and tail switch black , but the revised breed standards still did not specify colours . |
| 11 | Yet if she did not marry Paul , and had the baby , things would be worse rather than better . |
| 12 | Pots will be attractive here and the pool acts as a real focal point , set within a brick circle at a slightly lower level than the patio . |
| 13 | Consultants can be useful here as well . |
| 14 | Similarly , things can be inseparable even as they are distinguishable , as water = H20 . |
| 15 | I was sitting in the car park and I appreciated the area very much , it was nice , clean area but when I came to Walsall it was smoky and dirty area I 'm sorry to say that and er , but I had no alternative but to stay here because my father was here , I had no money and er , I thought because of relations job prospects might be better here than elsewhere . |
| 16 | We suspect the relative proportions of the different mechanisms identified in our patients will be different quantitatively but perhaps not qualitatively from those responsible for sudden infant death . |
| 17 | It is probably unnecessary to specify the president , as the relevant institution 's procedures will be similar even if the president is not specified . |
| 18 | In one way it can , for directors ' pay-slips can be misleading now that many are rewarded with bonuses connected to their firm 's performance . |
| 19 | Governing bodies will be all too aware of the danger that the image presented by their pupils may be negative rather than positive and do their best to see that high standards of behaviour are maintained in and out of school . |
| 20 | And while the spread of backgrounds may be wider now than it was , it scarcely shows in the appearance and mannerisms of the lawyers . |
| 21 | Proceedings should be informal so that no one need feel inhibited from taking part even if not professionally represented . |
| 22 | ‘ Although it seemed natural to expect that some word match scores should be good enough that they could be considered correct , thereby eliminating attempts to find alternatives to them , in fact all attempts to implement such an intuition seemed to have led to at best indifferent results and usually to positive degradation . |
| 23 | Peter is also anxious to know when the results might be available so that he can " get sorted out " and be able to concentrate on his business . |
| 24 | The second reason , less plausibly , is that they regard non-shareholder groups as having legitimate claims on the company and believe that these claims should be satisfied even though a reduction in shareholder wealth is involved . |
| 25 | A major influence was undoubtedly the personality of the dean himself , but the essential catalysts were the decision by the department of anatomy that it could no longer continue to operate two separate curricula — one for the traditional course and one for the parallel track — and the decision by several of the charitable funders of the new pathway that future grants would be available only if the scheme was adopted throughout the school . |
| 26 | General grants would be appropriate only if the grantor felt that all local services were merit goods . |
| 27 | The members of workgroups may be close together or widely dispersed |