Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adj] [verb] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That this means that homosexuals should be able to adopt children is , however , a proposition which I hesitate to advance . |
| 2 | It might be difficult to stop books being stolen . |
| 3 | Moreover , given the disparity in actual salaries , it is unlikely that the more general " managerial labour market " constraint on operation is fully effective since , as we said in chapter 3 , it is likely that the public sector trawls for talent in a different pool , at least in the UK.6 On the assumption that the people actually being appointed were ( unlike their private sector counterparts ) altruistic , this would be no bad thing , but it would be foolish to believe altruism were always the case . |
| 4 | Although the government suggested that it was prepared to offer some degree of autonomy to the island , the prospect of losing the tax revenue from the mine , together with the potential effect upon other provinces within the country 's ethnically diverse structure , suggested that the government would be unprepared to accept BRA 's stated aim of full independence . |
| 5 | Erm it would be wrong to say Wales is a weak region on the basis of this , it 's just not , does n't appear , or does n't expect to grow as strongly as it was growing . |
| 6 | MUMS dreading the prospect of talking to their teenagers about adolescence will be relieved to know help is at hand in the form of the ‘ Tampax Teen Talk Line ’ . |
| 7 | Blanche feels that the only way that she will be able to marry Mitch is if he looks on her as someone still young . |