Example sentences of "of [noun] [modal v] be [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 This kind of assessment may be difficult if you are looking for a photographer at the other end of the country .
2 This type of sack can be useful if you need a pack for backpacking , weekend use and day walking , as it will have compression straps which make it easy to reduce the size .
3 ‘ That sort of route would be impractical but it might help solve the exessses that a small minority of anglers get up to . ’
4 Some premises are not given to be divided and therefore an absolute prohibition on subletting or charging of part may be appropriate and acceptable .
5 I remember having a problem like that where we were erm we had a , a load of erm we were watering that material it was warmed , we thought of course would be alright but they did er , they were quite sensitive to it and they looked quite miserable .
6 The process of teaching must be flexible because between the extremes of the normal and the severely autistic child are an infinite variety of degrees of severity and persistence .
7 In this sense it intends to foster the idea that the internal organisation of institutions should be open and democratic .
8 The order of subjects must be systematic and generally acceptable to the anticipated users of index or collection ; it should also facilitate effective browsing between related subjects .
9 Lists of books can be tedious but such a selection from various subjects is necessary to provide a proper picture of this collection .
10 Back along the waste chain , the Liverpool dockers who objected to the import of exactly this type of chemical should be aware that PCBs are moving about our roads all the time .
11 The frequency of review may be critical and therefore the work plan should highlight dates when appraisal or review will be carried out .
12 It maintained that no new code for the assessment of compensation or the collection of betterment would be adequate if this individualistic system remained .
13 During the course of that discussion there was no way in which the Minister could do other than acknowledge that , after the Bill goes through , the existing privileged structure of adult basic education and further education in the county of Leicestershire can be other than damaged .
14 This way of seeing the development of databases can be misleading because it should not be implied that either each new generation will replace the previous generation ( all these systems will be used for some foreseeable time in the future ) or that each new generation is necessarily better than the previous one ( the appropriateness or otherwise of an approach will depend on the organisation and its applications ) .
15 First , the fact that the ‘ needs ’ of accumulation and those of legitimation may be contradictory or confused , both internally and with respect to each other , gives an independent role to the political sphere in the formation of policy .
16 Various forms of therapy may be helpful but , unless the fetishism leads to anti-social activity , impedes relationships or distresses the person concerned it is a harmless deviation .
17 It was a question bristling with the lingering doubt that some other procedure than the transfusion of blood may be necessary and may be imperative for her health .
18 The free membership offer ends in September 1993 , but all members of staff of the National Library of Scotland should be aware that they are also eligible to join the Club as associate members at any time ; the yearly subscription is currently £68.50 .
19 If Scotland were to have a Parliament with tax-raising powers , it could of course raise taxes that it wanted to raise , but the people of Scotland should be aware that there would then be no capping and no one to protect them from excessive expenditure decided by Strathclyde or Lothian .
20 The House of Lords believed that a period of exclusivity would be valid and binding on the vendor provided that consideration passed between the parties , that the terms of the period were certain and the parties intended to be bound .
21 It 's the same sort of cities commercial centre er let's explore the opportunities , there must be a market place out there er and market place across the north of England must be vast when you think about all the pension funds that are connected to the er to the public companies .
22 There are certain other circumstances in which this problem of unduly encouraging an authority to reach a particular decision does not arise and in which a scheme of compensation might be feasible and desirable : where there is no question of a decision being re-made , notably where the time-limit for challenging an allegedly illegal decision has run out ( through no fault of the applicant ) ; or where a citizen has suffered loss by relying on a representation by a public body that it will act in a particular way , in circumstances where the law will not require the body to make good its representation because it has undertaken to act illegally ; or where a court exercises its discretion not to quash an illegal decision In such cases the problem of causation does not exist because the decision in question will not be reconsidered .
23 Surgical removal of the redundant tissue in cases of esthiomene may be necessary and the intestinal obstruction in the ano-rectal syndrome may require colostomy .
24 The work will normally be with an elderly person 's family , the children , and grandchildren , but the family of origin may be valuable if there are siblings still available , near at hand .
25 His preferred solution was that , as in cases of mistake of fact , money paid under a mistake of law should be recoverable if it would be unjust for the recipient to retain it .
26 But in Nephila and many other spiders , the value of b will be low as once a male has located a female 's web , he stays there .
27 The Criminal Law Revision Committee disagreed , recommending that a verdict of manslaughter should be possible where the use of some force was justified by the occasion and where D honestly believed that the force he used was reasonable in the circumstances .
28 A change of routine would be invigorating and you would return to the road in the autumn with more enthusiasm as well as more ability .
29 Amid criticism that the government 's reactions to the troubles had been slow and their position confused and biased , Deputy Prime Minister Gelu Voican-Voiculescu , who was leading compromise talks between the HDUR and the UVR on March 22 , assured crowds in Tirgu Mures that the government 's commission of inquiry would be objective but would seek the " resolute " punishment of those found guilty of instigating the unrest .
30 Among the factors which they are required to take into account in reaching a decision are the seriousness of the offence , and whether their own powers of punishment would be adequate if the defendant were to be convicted ( section 19 , Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 ) .
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