Example sentences of "[verb] [modal v] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many practices are worried that only by taking a fund can they retain some independence from what they fear may be increasingly arbitrary or incomplete control by the family health services authority or its eventual successor . |
| 2 | The employment that does exist may be only seasonal in tourist areas . |
| 3 | The reduction in the plasma CRP concentration as the acute phase response subsides may be similarly rapid , with a fall from peak with a half time of 48 hours , as hepatocyte production of CRP rapidly decreases . |
| 4 | Panel gaps and door shuts should be consistently narrow . |
| 5 | The support given should be that necessary to carry out your objectives . |
| 6 | I have very little knowledge about why ordinary members joined , but my knowledge of why those people who later became ministers joined should be fairly representative of the core support . |
| 7 | Soil for rooting should be reasonably friable and well-drained , and free of weeds ; a little coarse sand in the base of the hole will help in rooting . |
| 8 | It grasped — as one hopes its successors have — that the pressure to bring military potential to bear may be more important than military potential itself . |
| 9 | There is even a suggestion that rewards which are routine and expected may be more motivating that the ones given only for extra special effort . |
| 10 | The ones that were actually caught must be particularly wary and will , no doubt , be conveying their nervousness to the shoal they returned to . |
| 11 | We know we 're taking in some erm five hundred more council houses , and we know that the rents of those , as they come in , are considerably higher than those of our own , and the rent rise they will have to suffer will be very little in comparison with the one that the City Council is putting off . |
| 12 | Ideas will be voiced but not listened to and developed ; or rejected because the level of interrupting and overspeaking will be inefficiently high . |
| 13 | Some personal needs will be more important than others and an individual will be prepared to sacrifice some of his objectives for his own greater benefit ( eg. an individual may be prepared to sacrifice some of his time in order to do a job which earns extra money ) . |
| 14 | In turbid water the depth to which corals grow will be more limited than in clear water . |
| 15 | Overseas Development Minister Baroness Chalker said : ‘ Until some semblance of peace and security returns , helping the hungry and dying will be enormously difficult . ’ |
| 16 | A knowledge of the ionospheric status will often suggest which bands will be more productive . |
| 17 | We are all the sum of our experiences , and one person 's interpretation of what you say will be very different from that of another . |
| 18 | To anyone familiar with the writings of authors such as Gummer , who are critical of the changes that have taken place in post-war Britain , the characteristics he highlights will be similarly familiar . |
| 19 | On the other hand , they know that the price of preserving their communities in the way that they want will be too high for their own country to have to pay . |
| 20 | Most of the main roads are in good condition , but driving can be very tiring as there are many bends , and most of the roads are built onto the mountainside with deep ravines dropping away below , and you never quite know what 's around the corner — be it a bus straddling the centre of the road to take a corner or a group of children playing football in the road . |
| 21 | As requested I wrote and asked about self-catering accommodation at the conference and I received a reply saying that there 's one house that erm she 's come across that she thinks might be particularly suitable for us . |
| 22 | Even Microsoft 's MSD ( Microsoft Diagnostics ) throws up a warning screen when run from the Windows DeskTop , saying ‘ information presented may be less accurate or complete than if MSD is run outside of Windows . ’ |
| 23 | The worker , we concluded , is caught in that he wants to make some investment in work , even though the ends sought may be quite diverse by different workers , and , at the same time , is always caught in a situation where he has to experience feelings of resentment . |
| 24 | Usually hypotheses seek to refine theory , since the generalizations already made may be relatively low-level , crude ones , and the new hypothesis seeks to produce a more sophisticated statement of relationship . |
| 25 | Why something is not done may be as significant as why something has been done . |
| 26 | What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult . |
| 27 | Hence , if Mr Keen purchases a freehold shop which was previously an undertaker 's and wishes to open Ghosts , a wine bar , on the premises , although the building work he undertakes may be wholly internal , a change of use is involved and therefore planning permission is required . |
| 28 | The amount of land made available for them to purchase should be approximately equivalent to the allotments they had tilled for their own subsistence under serfdom . |
| 29 | But the statement which is made must be neither false nor misleading . |
| 30 | Moreover , whilst in the retailing sector enterprises might supplement their labour forces by about 10 per cent to cope with seasonal peaks , in the holidays sector the increase made might be as high as several hundred per cent . |