Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moral to this little story must therefore be that it is always worth checking that the components you receive from a supplier are the ones that you actually ordered ! |
| 2 | The result of such practice may often be that the actual operative working on site receives substantially less than an economic rate for individual tasks , with resultant bad feeling and possibly bad workmanship . |
| 3 | An additional potential benefit is that charging depreciation means that funds are set aside ( though these funds need not be and probably will not be liquid ) to maintain the capital of the organization . |
| 4 | ‘ If [ the argument ] were right , then the result would merely be that the making of the contract constituted the appropriation . |
| 5 | The future will not be as God/dess or fate decrees , but as we design it . |
| 6 | The result will often be that he wins the race . |
| 7 | Speaking on a visit to Magherafelt he said : ‘ All I can say is that the community 's reply will always be that they will not be moved by this type of thing , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Roger : Ministers have declared new rules or constraints in advance but one rule will definitely be that employers must not sack other employees so that they can take on Workstart participants . |
| 9 | The answer to the second question must surely be that if there is a trust at all ( which is the first question ) , then because of the word omnia it is a trust of everything Pamphilus receives . |
| 10 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 11 | Whenever I drove to a hospital my question would not be whether there was a demonstration but how big . |
| 12 | The question would normally be whether their decision was unreasonable in the sense that no tribunal acquainted with the ordinary use of language could reasonably reach that decision . |
| 13 | Christmas will be in the Falklands the new year in the pacific … their welcome home wo n't be until the spring of 1995 |
| 14 | Secondly , therefore , the process of testing can not be as described earlier . |
| 15 | There is no requirement to name the potential offeror , and the announcement may simply be that the talks may or may not lead to an offer being made . |
| 16 | All the suggestions for improvement had been adequately implemented so the conclusion could only be that neither party had grasped the size and nature of the problem . |
| 17 | In such cases the code used in the quotation need not be that used by the original speaker : its force derives from the fact that it is different from the code of the part of the turn in which it is embedded . |
| 18 | They were , however , encouraged to delay their accident estimate until they had thought specifically about how busy the junction would normally be and how it might appear in other conditions . |
| 19 | Well , to me running costs would n't be and the cost of towards borrowing a house is the same way you know . |
| 20 | Soon she would lie down in the arms of a stronger lover than Tom would ever be and fall asleep . |
| 21 | It is doubtful that the BCG matrix is very useful for total portfolio management in many multi-business groups , because , even if the group is involved in SBUs whose business is dominated by the experience-curve effect , it is likely that some of its SBUs will not be and hence that they can not be reliably analysed within just the BCG context . |
| 22 | Vivienne Peters , chief executive of the Telecommunications Users Association , believes that Mercury 's reticence may not be because of problems with the trial , but because it wants to keep the plan under wraps in the fear that British Telecommunications Plc will try to steal its thunder by pre-launching a similar service . |
| 23 | The reaction of any neutral bystander could only be that the judge had become the adversary of the defence . |
| 24 | In principle , of course , the conclusion of such a struggle need not be as straightforward as Dearlove implies in his own study . |
| 25 | So one reason why many women are less easily aroused in the morning may well be because social factors are more important for them than they are for men . |
| 26 | However , we agreed that self-help schemes could only bring a few jobs and that a central demand should still be that the state provide jobs . |
| 27 | And I was trying to grasp , in terms of this distinction , the significance of Philonous 's insistence , in Berkeley 's dialogue , that material things are ‘ senseless beings ’ , It struck me that Berkeley 's argument must really be as follows : |
| 28 | But the ground of the complaint would not be that the giraffe 's right to self determination was being thwarted , as we would say of a human being in a cage , but the general distaste at the conviction that the animal must be suffering severe discomfort . |
| 29 | The ground would either be that he was expressly absolved from his duty , or the wider ground of Elliott 's , that further treatment was useless . |
| 30 | The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous . |