Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A puff it may be to the deposed kings of world rugby , but the Taiwanese are taking the training stint , which will be used as a build-up to September 's Asian tournament , in deadly earnest . |
| 2 | It acts to foster rather than hinder the material and non-material interests of most groups involved in the planning process , although it may be to the short term tactical advantage of some not to recognise the fact . |
| 3 | Tempting as it may be for the harassed mother to jump at the chance of sending her three year old to playschool every morning , imagine the devastating effect this can have when it coincides with the arrival in the home of a brand new baby . |
| 4 | It may be a light aircraft twenty miles away , in which case they will go in their own cars , or it may be on the other side of the world , in which case they will be on the next airline flight in that direction and might not be home again for several weeks . |
| 5 | Orange or red nut feeders are especially attractive to siskins , but if there are squirrels around it may be worth the extra expense of a tough model such as the Gilbert squirrel-proof feeder , which has a nut basket surrounded by a mesh which will only allow the birds through . |
| 6 | Probably they would have had no application to W. , but even where they are applicable it may be in the long-term interests of the minor that if the same treatment can be secured upon some other basis , this shall be done . |
| 7 | This is what ‘ democratic socialism ’ ought to mean , however remote it may be from the present practices of the Labour Party in or out of office . |
| 8 | It should then be for the official aircraft accident investigating authority to establish the cause of the accident and to make recommendations for avoiding similar accidents in the future , and it should be for the civil courts to decide who is liable to pay damages and to whom . |
| 9 | Maybe everything is n't the way it should be at the Regal Arms . |
| 10 | After this digression , it is now time to examine the way in which the curriculum , divided as it should be between the practical and the theoretical , is to be reflected in the school examination system . |
| 11 | The aims of higher education ( whether , for example , it should be about the disinterested pursuit of knowledge , or about training students for the graduate job market ) are confused . |
| 12 | It is a matter of total indifference to me , as it should be to the hon. Member for Swansea , East ( Mr. Anderson ) . |
| 13 | and so it 's very much as he was thinking and it should be in the old testament really cos it was written you know , before Jesus |
| 14 | a decision in detail as to where it should be in the short term ( one year ahead ) and a longer-term plan for about the next three to four years : |
| 15 | Somewhere people are drumming — it must be at the far end of the village , because at times the rhythm is distinct but when the wind takes it it becomes muffled , merging with the roar of the full monsoon river . |
| 16 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 17 | The more the star has moved at the end of the Earth 's journey of 186 million miles , the closer it must be to the solar system . |
| 18 | It might be on the other ones . |
| 19 | It might be in the other room actually . |
| 20 | On the contrary , they would have the normal reason for disregarding any belief or information on that score : that the law is the law and must be followed , no matter how unpopular it might be in the present climate of political opinion . |
| 21 | Lord Donaldson attacked the White Paper 's suggestion that it might be in the public interest to allow other professions , such as accountants , to be given rights of audience in the courts . |
| 22 | His briefer letters to Harry Hooton — avoiding those ‘ terrible letters I used to throw at you last term as it might be from the fruitless monotony of this place ’ — now explain his reading . |
| 23 | Oh it 'll be on the national news because |
| 24 | If it 's anywhere , it 'll be in the green file in my den labelled ‘ FR ’ or ‘ RQ ’ ( I ca n't quite remember which ) . |
| 25 | ‘ It 'll be in the weekly bulletin . |
| 26 | It 'll be like the old days . ’ |
| 27 | but you 've got to find the place there it could be at the other end a mile away could n't it ? |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't picture it , ’ she said , ‘ but it could be at the far end from the flat . ’ |
| 29 | BRITISH RAIL believes it could be on the right lines for attracting more passengers in Cleveland . |
| 30 | It could be on the other side of the island or asleep or waiting to leap out the water and swallow them whole . |