Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is that a great many " inventions " would not be obvious to a layman but would be to someone who knew something of the technology involved . |
| 2 | Columbus-America investors spent more than $ 12 million , in large part to develop a sophisticated unmanned submersible , called Nemo , for a return that may be worth as much as $ 1 billion . |
| 3 | I suggest that he and his friends in Ealing , North — which he has represented so well for so many years — put together a festival that would be of interest to young people , and also to the important artists whom he mentioned . |
| 4 | Yes that 's right , right well that 's a baby , that 's a baby that will be like that , but she 's older , so her legs would be , she would be in that position would n't she ? |
| 5 | Displays would either flick between functions at the touch of a button or would be like a television screen , showing all sorts of information at once . |
| 6 | I figured that rather than have a tape and a black and white photo , I would have a CD that would be in colour . |
| 7 | It is also a book that will be of interest to a wide group of readers . |
| 8 | Nor is it the knowledge that Foxton , a haunt of foxes even in Saxon times , is a meeting place among others of one of the great Leicestershire Hunts , the Fernie , however important a cause that may be for assemblies of motorists in the county . |
| 9 | No doubt it had a great deal of appeal because it suggested that , if someone could afford air travel , he must be a bit of a swinger and must be with it . |
| 10 | I have a deep affection for you , a yearning that will be with me till the day I die . ’ |
| 11 | Frederic W. Farrar 's Eric , or , little by little of 1858 is the often-quoted example , in which the boys show open affection for each other in a way that would be at least ridiculed in our own harsh world of emotional constraint : |