Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be [vb pp] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many reasons why it may be regarded as helpful to gather information about a child 's language , and the uses to which any formal assessment results may be put will influence decisions about how assessments can best be carried out . |
| 2 | It may be questioned whether such elaborate surveillance ( engaged in not only by the KGB but to a greater or lesser extent by other security organizations ) is really necessary or produces results commensurate with the time , energy and expense involved in the operations . |
| 3 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 4 | Where transfer is indicated on other grounds it may be denied if this would cause undue delay which would be prejudicial to the child . |
| 5 | The speechreader may grasp the meaning quickly but it may be received as bare fact , unadorned and unsoftened by excuses , explanations or reasons . |
| 6 | The Man of Law 's " " I speke in prose " " need not be a description of the tale he is about to tell — it may be read as equivalent to " my speech is ( normally ) prosaic " — but several critics have looked for a prose work of Chaucer 's which could be identified as the once-intended tale of the Man of Law . |
| 7 | It may be committed where sexual intercourse takes place between a man and his daughter , sister , or half-sister , mother or grand-daughter irrespective of whether the relationship is traced through ‘ lawful wedlock , ’ and irrespective of whether consent is present . |
| 8 | It may be doubted whether these sources were often on the credit side as long as the papacy had to pay out considerable sums to consolidate its position and to enter into compacts and agreements with some of the towns : but a list of revenues and rents from Spoleto in 1198 is not negligible . |
| 9 | Once again , it may be doubted whether this is sufficiently high for the most serious cases . |
| 10 | Although suicide is not , in itself , a psychiatric illness it may be taken as suggestive of impaired mental health . |
| 11 | Again it should be seen as close and calculated that the shawl which wraps the head in shame at first , becomes at last a green emblem of mercy . |
| 12 | This piece of furniture has become something of a shibboleth : both the Magistrates ' Association and the National Union of Journalists have said that it should be regarded as sacrosanct . |
| 13 | S 357(3) ( b ) , ICTA 1988 makes the position quite clear : ‘ Where interest is payable on more than one loan or treated as made to the borrower and the loans were made simultaneously , it should be treated as payable on one loan . ’ |
| 14 | Second , within the Consumer Movement , the long-standing question whether its producer capacity should be developed as independent industrial co-operatives and hence under the control of the people working in them , or whether it should be treated as incidental to the consumer co-operatives and accountable to them , had , as we have seen , been decided once and for all in favour of the latter alternative . |
| 15 | Management , then , has become a whole-school process , and it should be approached as such in any INSET and support programmes organized by the Authority or its schools . |
| 16 | Management has become an whole-school process , entailing that every member of staff has a managerial role of some kind , and it should be approached as such in any INSET or support programmes . |
| 17 | The situation is not desperate although it should be remedied because many Insular musicians , judged in relation to their European counterparts , possess a remarkable ability to produce an accurate performance virtually at sight , a skill acquired by many singers during years of preparing services under pressure in cathedrals and Oxbridge chapels . |
| 18 | In the event of it being correct it should be established whether any undue difficulties were involved that could have led to the fault arising and whether the approach to the task could be improved . |
| 19 | It must be regarded as probable , therefore , that under Aethelbald the Mercian position in areas bordering on other kingdoms was consolidated at the expense of surrounding neighbours . |
| 20 | Secondly , that whatever the words of the statute may suggest , the conflict with Code C and with a long established ‘ right of silence ’ is so acute that , whatever the statute may appear to say , it must be understood as subject to an implied exception in the case of persons who have been charged . |
| 21 | It must be determined whether this is realistic . |
| 22 | Equally , it would be no defence to the charge of insulting behaviour founded upon , for example , handing out leaflets seeking to persuade soldiers to desert that it was not the leafleter 's intention to insult , so long as the leaflet was in fact insulting , and the person distributing it was at least aware that it might be regarded as insulting by the person to whom it was addressed . |
| 23 | The insurance valuation of the contents was probably lower than it should be in these days of rising prices , but if it could be taken as a guide and the amount split in two it might be regarded as fair . |
| 24 | Since Collins has publicly vowed to emigrate to America if Labour wins the election , it could be seen as appropriate . |
| 25 | In Siskina , the plaintiff 's major claim for compensation was not itself justiciable in England ; Lord Diplock pointed out that to argue in effect that it could be treated as justiciable because , if it were , an interlocutory injunction might be granted was a logical fallacy , petitio principii ( pulling oneself up by one 's own bootstraps ) . |
| 26 | When he was in Vienna he had contact with the followers of Freud and Adler , and he found that even when a fact appeared to contradict their theories , they were always able to turn the fact around so that it could be taken as another example to prove their theory . |
| 27 | Although the Welsh Office commissioned some elementary research , we were disappointed the licence was eventually approved on the basis it could be revoked if observable environmental damage was caused . |
| 28 | Article 86 provides that : any abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position within the common market or a substantial part of it shall be prohibited as incompatible with the common market insofar as it may affect trade between Member States . |
| 29 | The southern tip of Greenland , known as Prince Christian , was to be used as a decision point where it would be decided whether enough fuel remained to proceed to Goose Bay or whether it would be necessary to proceed to the alternate . |
| 30 | Far from the break even point — where overall costs and savings would balance — being at the 43 authorities mark , it would be achieved if 24 authorities were created . |