Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Persuading people to a particular point of view is the essential aim of every public relations campaign , no matter how it may appear to be about products , concepts , policies , personalities , issues , or information and data . |
| 2 | a more detached view of what was the right thing or the wrong thing to do , a tradition of what national life was like , and what it ought to continue to be like . |
| 3 | That was the only objection made to site D thirty nine , er that it should be The objection was that it should shown to be in the greenbelt . |
| 4 | But the arrangement is more artful than it might appear to be at first sight . |
| 5 | Due to a multiplicity of problems , the ‘ proper course of action ’ was not as evident as it might seem to be in retrospect . |
| 6 | ‘ It 'll have to be to Mr Rosen , Frank . |
| 7 | It 'll have to be at Luke 's place — my flat 's too small . |
| 8 | So if you want to see that old mother of yours it 'll have to be by road . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 'll have to be after Lent . ’ |
| 10 | It 'd need to be like C X. |
| 11 | ‘ It would appear to be over a former girlfriend . ’ |
| 12 | If Jackie were to close the gap , it would have to be at the Nürburgring . |
| 13 | But it would have to be at least twenty feet long . |
| 14 | It would have to be at least , erm , what would it have to be , it would have to be at least the benefit , yes , the benefit would have to be at least four on the , on the B's side , in order for that to work . |
| 15 | It would have to be at least , erm , what would it have to be , it would have to be at least the benefit , yes , the benefit would have to be at least four on the , on the B's side , in order for that to work . |
| 16 | In the Firthview cafe , apparently the location of some awful and localised ground subsidence since it was named , because it would have to be at least a storey taller to catch a view of the water , I had a cup of coffee and a game of Space Invaders . |
| 17 | If the directives were to be criticised , it would have to be on the basis that any use of the power would damage the reputation of the British broadcasting authorities for independence and that that price was not worth paying for so small an effect . |
| 18 | But if we did meet it would have to be on my terms . |
| 19 | If she went anywhere it would have to be on her own two feet . |
| 20 | It would have to be with a steady boyfriend . |
| 21 | If the show was to transfer then it would have to be with a new accompanist/narrator . |
| 22 | 7 Measure the area exactly and scale it down for transfer to squared paper — a large scale would be 1.2 cm ( ½ in ) per 30 cm ( 12 in ) , but if you want to mark in all the plants in all the beds , it would have to be of the order of 5 cm/30 cm ( 2 in/12 in ) . |
| 23 | In other words it would have to be job beneficial , it would have to be of strategic importance and and all those other things we 've been discussing . |
| 24 | It would have to be by surprise . |
| 25 | If James II were to recapture his throne , it would have to be by force , as the result of a successful foreign invasion , but William 's government proved more than a match , putting down the Jacobite rebellions in Scotland and Ireland , and defeating the prospect of a French-backed invasion with victory at La Hogue in 1692 . |
| 26 | I was careful to explain my own attitude to commissioned work — that in order for me to work it would have to be within the broadest of limitations . |
| 27 | I thought you see it would have to be in her name , because she has |
| 28 | Unemployed , he would love to resume a career in football , even though he knows it would have to be in an off-the-field capacity . |
| 29 | It would seem to be on a par with the famous ‘ Let them eat cake ’ attributed to Marie Antoinette . |
| 30 | In such a state , driven by the worst fear of all , that of sudden death , and given that they are all approximately equal in power , it would seem to be in men 's interests that they reach some agreement , each to have only as much liberty as he is prepared to allow to others . |