Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that reporters are constantly swapping jobs and assignments and that your contacts may be away when you most need them . |
| 2 | If the file is small , the cylinder index may be partly or entirely held in main storage , as explained earlier in this chapter ( see p. 228 ) . |
| 3 | Though the next general election may be more than two years away , the markets have already started taking bets on the outcome . |
| 4 | The tax base should be widely and fairly evenly dispersed . |
| 5 | Order 29 , r12(1) simply states that the interim payment should be just and not exceed a reasonable proportion of the damages that the plaintiff is likely to be awarded . |
| 6 | We also saw that , for a reaction to occur spontaneously G must be less than zero . |
| 7 | The lessee in a lease — the defendant so covenanted in this case — covenants in effect that he or his assignee will perform the covenants and observe the conditions contained in it ; and when , as in the present instance , the defendant sets up no performance by himself of the covenants sued on , his defence must be either that his assignee has performed them or that his assignee is in some way as between himself and the lessor absolved from performance . |
| 8 | The requirement that the reduction should be just and equitable means that there is no single test for determining the level of reduction of damages . |
| 9 | Performance and reward imperatives may be more or less related . |
| 10 | The speed may be just because I 'm press , of course — Which ? magazine said this week the AA is slowest of the big motoring organisations to answer a call . |
| 11 | Le Page and Tabouret-Keller write : As the individual speaks he [ sic ] is seen as always using language with reference to the inner models of the universe he has constructed for himself ; he projects in words images of that universe ( or , of those universes ) on to the social screen , and these images may be more or less sharply focussed , or more or less diffuse , in relation to each other or in relation to those projected by others in their interaction with him … |
| 12 | The animals may be there but it may not be easy to see them because they are too small ; therefore use the microscope ( Chapter 5 ) . |
| 13 | The high rates of known opioid use in Wallasey Village and Bebington may be partly or wholly explained by microdiffusion processes . |
| 14 | He might perhaps attribute the incompleteness of his account to the fact that he is a ‘ bourgeois ’ subject , who can only glimpse an alternative view ofthe individual ; but this defence is still a problem , for even a glimpse suggests that the ISAs of the capitalist totality may be more or less effective , and this variation will have to be explained . |
| 15 | Finally , whatever the future of state schools ' funding , whether it be grant maintained or devolved under the local management of schools , all schools must be fairly and adequately resourced . |
| 16 | Until the Bolshevik revolution the question of whether Marxists should be inside or outside the Labour Party was very much a matter for themselves , as for all other radical and socialist groups . |
| 17 | today , and why powers equal to those wielded in respect to the management of internal and domestic affairs by the Self-Governing Colonies could not , if the policy of Indirect Rule should be consistently and intelligently applied , be granted to such units within one or two generations . |
| 18 | The wait for longer entries should be less than 24 hours . |
| 19 | In other words , it is not enough that a cell should be more or less active ; the change must be sufficiently unusual statistically for it to function as a code . |
| 20 | Some estimates suggest that CFCs direct contribution to the greenhouse effect might be more or less offset by their indirect effect of countering it by depleting ozone . |
| 21 | His loss could be less than £5 if , for example , in his contract with Q the price was £104 . |
| 22 | Clearly this figure could be more or less . |
| 23 | His reply would be perhaps that the proof of the pudding is in the particular cases . |
| 24 | At one end of the spectrum of opinion were xenophobic seclusionists who argued that relations with foreigners would be morally as well as politically disastrous . |
| 25 | A Japanese-led bloc of Asian nations would be militarily and economically secure , and able to stand up to the threat posed by the nations of Europe and by the United States . |
| 26 | The community can unite over that proposition while disagreeing about which alternative would be more and which less just . |
| 27 | The risks would be less if Congress were to act quickly on reform proposals provided by the administration , which could attract new capital into banking from outside , and break down the barriers that have hampered the growth of strong banks . |
| 28 | For many , the figure would be less if they were to avoid having their spending capped . |
| 29 | It is therefore inevitable that our Poundians will be exceptions , and that majority opinion for the foreseeable future will be more or less hysterically hostile to Pound . |
| 30 | terminal response times whilst editing entries will be less than two seconds on average and 95% of responses should be less than three seconds |