Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] [vb mod] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the tropics , however , flowers of one kind or another can be found throughout the year , so there animals are able to make pollen and nectar the mainstay of their diet and have evolved highly efficient organs to collect it . |
| 2 | Many of us who take 7 hours or more may be able to cope with less sleep without feeling sleepy , given training , but only those of us who were sleeping more than we really " needed " to . |
| 3 | Either the dominance or the recession or both may be addictive in their repetitive pattern . |
| 4 | You may think , quite rightly , that you need a spare transmitter but do realise that you can not store this in your pocket during the ferreting or that will be the transmitter picked up by the receiver ! |
| 5 | A witness summons should not be issued to compel the attendance of a child witness where this would be oppressive or damaging to the child 's welfare to an extent which would outweigh the legitimate interest of any other party to the proceedings ( R v Birmingham CC , ex pP [ 1991 ] 1 WLR 221 ) . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the perception that this might be desirable was reborn , whether for good or for ill , among the twelfth-century rulers of France . |
| 7 | Prince 's Youth Business Trust awards grants up to £1,500 although more may be available if more than one person is involved . |
| 8 | It is a peculiarly appropriate irony that this should be the only poem in this group with the Our/ We form , establishing on the grammatical plane a congruence with the semantic one : seen from the outside , held up for inspection , they are united — at the level of mutual deception . |
| 9 | At the far end , once again my , detector gave a nice small signal , quite different from the copper halfpennies , and as I dug down to retrieve this I had some idea in mind that this might be a hammered . |
| 10 | Although the chief focus of this chapter is the ‘ house ’ and ‘ home ’ , it should also be kept in mind that this can be extended to apply to any circumstances or environment to which a woman gives structure and form . |
| 11 | It suddenly flashed into Jack 's mind that this must be Ho , Mr Chan 's son — the boy he had been asked to protect and whose existence he had virtually forgotten in the confusion of events . |
| 12 | Any computer shop will tell you about the various comms packages available for your machine , though bear in mind that some can be quite difficult to set up ( and that most American software can not handle the Prestel standards ) . |
| 13 | The constant writing against stereotype , afraid to say a truth , or create real characters , for fear that this could be used as a justification for institutionalised racism , was also a constant source of constraint for these writers . |
| 14 | Greenfield picks up as most pertinent to her own argument his attempt to trace ‘ this failure to a lack of conscious differentiation of self from others ’ and his prediction that this will be ‘ reflected in the structure of communication , as , for example , in failing to make one 's point of view known ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 15 | The experiment gave every indication that this would be possible and was a great technical success — but when the elected representatives were asked to agree a city-wide scheme , they voted against it . |
| 16 | anyway frank — is — wanted by Start on a new rental deal this spring so that might be an option for him — for his sake i hope the deal with albacete will come through — for my own and leeds i hope he will still stay at leeds — he is a great talent and clearly is a man for the future . |
| 17 | While hearings will normally be oral , there is no fixed rule that this must be so . |
| 18 | The prepatent periods of members of this genus are generally between 2-3 months although this may be extended , due to hypobiosis in some species . |
| 19 | In spite of the trusts imposed on the former matrimonial home or its proceeds of sale , the husband may remain liable in respect of any mortgage secured thereon , the intent being in effect that this should be deducted from or charged on his equitable share . |
| 20 | The court made no recommendation that this could be used as a basis for impeachment , however , and Interfax news agency said a reference on these lines had been deleted . |
| 21 | Without the authority to initiate change , more harm than good would be done by reforms which may get stuck half-way , and which would be resented by heads and teachers in all the schools . |
| 22 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 23 | It is in the interests of the ordinary citizen that that should be so . |
| 24 | City investors accepted shares on condition that all could be placed but by last night potential buyers had been found for only about half the stake . |
| 25 | Hoare found buyers for nearly half the stake on Tuesday — but institutions agreed to take shares only on condition that all could be placed . |
| 26 | Scurvy , the old sailor 's disease , is caused by a lack of vitamin C. Tobacco , generous amounts of alcohol and aspirin interfere with vitamin C absorption ; the Americans recommend a 60mg daily supplement for smokers or drinkers and this may be a reasonable amount to try . |
| 27 | At le weekend some Brownies might play le football and some may be lucky enough to go sailing on un yacht . |
| 28 | ‘ Experience in the bus industry has shown that white collar jobs have been cut by between 25–30pc and this would be repeated under privatisation of British Rail . ’ |
| 29 | Because of the humidity , below freezing temperatures feel colder than they are and can have the harmful effect of biting deep into the vine and this can be fatal if the sap has started to rise . |
| 30 | One might quibble with these distinctions , but the proposal is simple : BSL is a language for conveying information and will be optimal where accurate and immediate knowledge is the goal ; methods imposed on this medium will be tailored to specific educational goals and these will be a function of the priorities of teachers , parents and society . |