Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus even in a situation where Creole is permitted , none may in fact be spoken — or if it is , it may be limited to ritualised tokens such as the tags man , guy and star , which , though they lie within the boundaries of the folk concept " Patois " are best seen as part of the language of black-influenced youth culture . |
| 2 | There may be no crust on the far side , and even on the near side it may be confined to certain regions , such as beneath the maria , though the majority view is that the Moon does have a global crust . |
| 3 | It may be linked to recurrent tonsillitis and the broken nights can cause sleepiness during the day , aggressive behaviour and difficulty with homework . |
| 4 | If any readers have an idea what it might be and how it may be put to good use , please let me know — IM |
| 5 | To the disappointment of the Law Society and the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee , the Lord Chancellor declined to fund a full-time secretariat , claiming that it should be left to local or charitable sources . |
| 6 | Armchair theorising may be a useful preliminary , a source of what may turn out to be interesting ideas , but for science to begin it must be secured to empirical results and its theories determined by them . |
| 7 | If not , consider how it might be adjusted to different categories of student while preserving its efficacy as a means of encouraging orientation within a discourse . |
| 8 | If the scheme is successful , it 'll be extended to other parts of the motorway network . |
| 9 | Initially it 'll be connected to existing mainframes . |
| 10 | ‘ With her background it 'll be referred to Special Branch and Five … and that fiddled telephone … and Praeger without any background — we should have left his wallet , but they 'll trace something about him anyway — and then we can admit we went to see her — once — and what we talked about and there we are . ’ |
| 11 | The Church has already agreed to let Pat have our morning tapes to give them free of charge , and if anyone else would like to send anything , it could be put to good use . |
| 12 | Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look , much of it could be put to good decorative effect . |
| 13 | It was planned to fly food to the north-east Kenyan town of Wajir , from where it would be trucked to Somali refugees living in UN camps along the Kenyan border or sent by air into Somalia . |
| 14 | But fears that it would be given to poorly educated women or ethnic minorities , without their informed consent , led the Health Minister , Kenneth Clarke , to refuse the drug a full licence last year . |
| 15 | At first it would be used to launched satellites at a tenth the cost of the shuttle . |
| 16 | Although control is , in these circumstances , more easily established it is unlikely that it will be generalized to other sites . |
| 17 | All managers in the production department at Betts Tubes in Stevenage have been involved in ITED and during this year it will be extended to other employees . |
| 18 | Tomorrow ( Good Friday ) the Hants Grand National motocross will take place on the Matchams Park circuit , near Ringwood , but , for the first time , it will be restricted to pre-1965 built machines and there will also be races for more modern twin shock-absorber machines . |
| 19 | In 1988 the salary reached £22,548 and in future it will be linked to civil service pay , being 89 per cent of the salary of a Principal . |
| 20 | Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 VX653 will take-up residence with The Fighter Collection ( TFC ) at Duxford , where it will be restored to flying condition ; Mosquito T.III TW117 is being removed from display and placed in temporary storage . |
| 21 | While both these objections have truth to them , it is also clear that a range of critical writings which share more preoccupations than differences has emerged and that it can be contrasted to other forms of writing about texts and history . |
| 22 | This is the technique of flash photolysis , and again it can be applied to gaseous or to liquid samples . |
| 23 | Our other theme , the more general study of homoclinic orbits and bifurcations , is perhaps of even greater importance because it can be applied to other systems of equations as well { 2,9 , 10,20 } . |
| 24 | It can be applied to variable-length records by padding or the use of fixed-length buckets for variable records , as discussed previously . |
| 25 | Once the hydrogen is produced it can be converted to other fuel forms such as methanol . |
| 26 | Very often assessment of a child 's language is required in order that it can be presented to other professionals who are seeking to help that child . |
| 27 | While this maxim applies especially to press , it can be extended to other media , too . |
| 28 | We need now to assess the validity of this approach , to see whether it can be extended to other kinds of discourse , and to examine alternative approaches too . |
| 29 | The dump will hold the highly-radioactive waste until it can be taken to British Nuclear Fuel 's Sellafield works for reprocessing to extract uranium and plutonium . |
| 30 | Since word order is not now needed for signalling an increased specificity of conceptual meaning it can be put to other purposes , as we shall see presently . |