Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] [modal v] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1975 Dr ( later Lord ) William Marshall , the country 's leading champion of nuclear power , lamented before a House of Lords ' committee that at the current rate of progress there might be only two fast reactors on line by 2000 . |
| 2 | Subjects in Study 3 were members of the Unit 's subject panel , thus most had participated in previous experiments at the unit , for a variety of reasons they may be generally better at this type of task than those recruited through a newspaper advertisement appealing specifically to drivers . |
| 3 | Fourteen two , erm the great problem is it 's easier to get if an afternoon meeting can finish at a reasonable time , then I can probably but erm I think if you , if you 're looking at the clock when home in the evening for a number of reasons it might be then I would this and unless we can sort of put a restricted time on the agenda which is impossible , I can imagine coming down here at two o'clock for the meeting . |
| 4 | That i that is completely infeasible for all for all sorts of reasons it would be grossly unfair on council tenants to throw them out of their house . |
| 5 | However , if a particular journalist writes about another part of your range of products it might be tactically useful to send samples of an inexpensive new product , even though it is not in his area , simply to remind him of your existence and to jog his memory about the rest of the range . |
| 6 | sort that cultural otherness does not carry with it any necessary hierarchy of superiority/inferiority which can be appropriately labelled by such terms as " primitive " , " backward " , " underdeveloped " , " childish " , " ignorant " , " simple " , " primeval " , " pre-literate " , or whatever . |
| 7 | They could go into the chapel , and the Adam library , and the red drawing-room , and with a bit of luck they 'd be so busy looking at the Chippendale and the Hepplewhite they would n't notice the holes in the rugs . ’ |
| 8 | Act absolutely normally , and with a bit of luck she 'll be home before you know it . ’ |
| 9 | Poetics is concerned with a general grammar of literature which will be only partially visible in any individual work . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |
| 11 | I think they 've built They 've opened London offices , many of them , if those offices grow so they acquire the sort of breadth and depth of experience in the relevant areas that the big firms have got and at the moment er they may not have , then of course they 'll be more and more competitive . |
| 12 | But they , of course they may be now cos we booked them back in Feb |
| 13 | [ The grandmaster issued strict instructions not to leave any traces of habitation on the deserted island , although of course they could be there for sometime ] . |
| 14 | But you might say , and I councillor did say in fact that of course we would be most unfair in the way that we did this because to quote from him er we were giving no time , no time for discussion , no time for evaluation no time . |
| 15 | Our task is to consider the situation from the earliest primary level through till , certainly the compulsory school-leaving erm age , sixteen , but of course we shall be very interested in developments between sixteen and eighteen . |
| 16 | And of course there must be easy capsize recovery . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Of course he 'll be all right , ’ said Charlotte , all the more firmly because she was not totally convinced . |
| 18 | Each of course you 'd be about seventeen years . |
| 19 | If people are made aware of the risks and volunteer , then that 's seems to be their own free choice , and if that is what they wish to do , then that it seen to be a perfectly fair about going of course it would be completely immoral to test a drug on somebody who was n't aware of what was going on . |
| 20 | It could just be that and of course it would be very naive to assume that evolution had adapted us always to be happy with everything . |
| 21 | The picture which emerges from this study is one where assistance between more distant kin is of relatively minor importance to the total picture ( although of course it may be very important in particular cases ) , and that whether it is likely to be significant is rather idiosyncratic and unpredictable . |
| 22 | The hamlet , whose name probably means ‘ badger-copse ’ , was recorded in 1251 , though of course it may be much older in origin ; the surname had no doubt become hereditary by the following century . |
| 23 | I 'm not prepared to accept that any more than I am prepared to accept the hogwash that we heard from Bob Morgan and his Liberal Democrats , because of course it may be extremely comfortable for him to be acting like a beached dolphin on the shores of Abu Dhabi , but the fact of the matter is , of course , that the Liberal Democrats , with or without the backs of their envelopes and cigarettes packets , are extremely unlikely to be making any national legislation , so they are quite comfortable in being able to observe how others might or might not do it . |
| 24 | Have you a sugar daddy ? ( or of course it might be more |
| 25 | It 's not it 's brother or sister , or their brother or sister , it is unique , and it 's pattern of development , although of course it will be broadly similar to other children , exactly like no other child , and in a sense I would feel that the parental job is to judge very carefully the needs and the developmental cycle of their own child , and then stimulate to the extent that that child needs . |
| 26 | It 's not it 's brother or sister , or their brother or sister , it is unique , and it 's pattern of development , although of course it will be broadly similar to other children , exactly like no other child , and in a sense I would feel that the parental job is to judge very carefully the needs and the developmental cycle of their own child , and then stimulate to the extent that that child needs . |
| 27 | Of course it will be all right . |
| 28 | ‘ But if a formal invitation is issued by the Soviet Union then of course it will be very much considered . ’ |
| 29 | Of course it will be now wo n't it ? |
| 30 | And of course it can be very dangerous because it 's so difficult to control . ’ |