Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just how tough it could be for the independent producer is evident from the history of Minerva Films . |
| 32 | It could be like the mysterious caller on the telephone to Mr Wallace requesting the visit to Qualtrough Avenue : you just did not know if it existed at all . |
| 33 | According to Lotus associate director Albert Adams — a world authority on composites and the man who , 30 years ago , was told by Chapman to ‘ learn all about glass-fibre ’ — it could be from the escalating costs of tooling up for pressed-steel car production . |
| 34 | On present evidence , that would be welcome : a reunited Germany with Mr Kohl as its first chancellor is likely to be more prosperous , and stabler , than it would be under the Social Democrats . |
| 35 | Fourth , we may point out that quite often the potential reference of the noun as modified by the adjective will not be the same in the predicate qualifying construction as it would be under the attributive version . |
| 36 | On January 22nd Alan Greenspan , chairman of the Federal Reserve , suggested that it would be at the low end of that range largely because much of the equipment being used would not be replaced . |
| 37 | Flanagan , the distant fishmonger , had sworn it would be on the early train from Waterford . |
| 38 | If it was a breeding bird it would be on the northern edge of its range . |
| 39 | 1791 The Gentlemen of the Parish of Kildaltan represent that the Church is much Injured by the Schools being kept therein and that it would be for the General benifit of the Parish to have a School House Built seperate from the Church … appoint a Committee for fixing the Stance of the School House and getting the same Built . |
| 40 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 41 | Contrary to such a view , black kids believe that , for them , being successful is more difficult than it would be for the white person of comparable proficiency . |
| 42 | There could however be a tribunal which had jurisdiction to determine whether the preliminary state of facts existed ; here it would be for the inferior tribunal to decide upon all the facts . |
| 43 | As making the parliamentary channel available in Members ' rooms would be tantamount to supplying a clean feed direct from the Chamber , it would be for the Select Committee on Broadcasting , Etc. in the first instance , to approve such a proposal . |
| 44 | I insisted that the Unit must be responsible for its own training and operational planning and that , therefore , the Commander of the Unit must come directly under the C in C. I emphasised how fatal it would be for the proposed unit to be put under any existing branch or formation for administration . |
| 45 | On the 25th March 1993 Mr Howard updated the DoE guideline to planners thus ‘ it would be against the national interest to refuse planning permission for the extension of economic indigenous coal where the development can be carried out in an environmentally acceptable way . |
| 46 | In human beings , some individuals might perceive that it would be in the general interest if queue jumping was prevented , particularly if a complete breakdown of the queue made the resource unavailable ( if the driver sees a fight at a bus stop , he does n't stop ) . |
| 47 | And they would be looking for a bed for the night and it would be in the old hay shed that we would put them but there would n't be a problem . |
| 48 | And then the lights all came on , and it would be like the hardest-to-bear dawn ever . |
| 49 | it would be like the whole year was getting |
| 50 | It would be like the blessed relief of a coal fire after the dull , dry heat of an electric bar … |
| 51 | While NATO will run the operation , it will be under the strict political control of the UN , which can stop or modify the operation as it likes . |
| 52 | Until a Summons is served , one is in blissful ignorance as to whether it will be under the Optional Procedure or not , unless of course the third party correspondents are charitable enough to advise you . |
| 53 | It will be at the following sites between 10am and 4pm : Monday , Billingham shopping centre ; Tuesday , Yarm High Street ; Wednesday , Stockton High Street ; Thursday , Thornaby town centre car park and Friday , Stockton High Street . |
| 54 | It will be at the busy 1.75-metre interchange between the Paris metro and the railway at Les Invalides . |
| 55 | The answers to both questions are yes — but before conservationist indignation takes hold it should be pointed out that if the military do ‘ invade ’ the Galapagos ( which is , of course , a province of Ecuador ) it will be at the express invitation of the Galapagos National Park Service and the scientists of the Charles Darwin Research Station : for the sole purpose of eradicating feral animals . |
| 56 | It will be for the privatised companies in due course to establish pensions arrangements for their employees . |
| 57 | When the subsidiaries are transferred to the private sector it will be for the new companies to make pension arrangements for employees . |
| 58 | As the first chapter states , ‘ the true challenge is for the chemist ’ , and it will be for the analytical chemist to develop reliable methods . |
| 59 | Primarily , it will be for the British Transport police to carry out the tests . |
| 60 | Thereafter , it will be for the British presidency to carry that work forward . |