Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A firm 's ability to use the money effectively should be more important than whether the company is in a designated area for special assistance , ’ said , partner with Moores Rowland , as the firm issued guidelines to the main business grant schemes . |
| 2 | These measures alone may be as effective a means of recognising house officers as an important part of the service provided as restricting them to one hospital site for their preregistration year . |
| 3 | Large billy goats alone may be quite capable of looking after themselves . |
| 4 | The power of the bureaucracy merely corresponds to the power of the state as a whole and so may be quite compatible with the power ( or lack of it ) exercised elsewhere in the state apparatus . |
| 5 | Furthermore the force needed to do so may be very small . |
| 6 | An intuition that this is indeed so may be very difficult to substantiate if the attributions made by members of the dominant society are very loud and very visible , and those of the members of the microsociety hard to come by , perhaps because those members are not easy to contact . |
| 7 | First , bees can discriminate stripe orientation when patterns are presented in brief , 2-millisecond exposures , and so must be virtually stationary on the retina . |
| 8 | He obviously must be quite annoyed about the fact that Blanche is moving in , so he even confronts her and asks her how long she is going to stay . |
| 9 | Providing that the grounds for the claim are clear and all necessary records are available , calculation of the additional cost for time related charges only should be relatively straightforward . |
| 10 | Er ooh I figure I 'd only be quite young perhaps might be about five . |
| 11 | I think for a very small company this perhaps might be more complicated in computing terms than would be worthwhile , but as soon as you 're getting to the point of many orders in a week , then it can be exceedingly useful to be able to ask the computer to tell you for example what are all the outstanding orders , what are all the overdue orders , what is the stock position bearing in mind that some stock is committed for certain orders , what orders have we got with suppliers to us which are still outstanding , and questions of this sort , can make your business much more efficient . |
| 12 | alone had three dozen fish curers and the demand in Shetland alone could be as much as 1500 tons per week at the height of the season . |
| 13 | Now I think a little lie-down perhaps would be rather lovely . " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( In the following cases , the corresponding phrase using prenominal position only would be fully acceptable ) : ( 50 ) the handbook useful is in your out-tray a story interesting would be hard to find ( 51 ) the only handbook useful is in your out-tray a story less interesting would be hard to find Even here , the distinction between qualification and assignment may have a part to play in the explanation . |
| 16 | Many people who dare not say so would be secretly glad if Israel swatted away Iraq 's nuclear ambitions with another elegant air raid . |
| 17 | In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed . |
| 18 | ‘ Not to do so would be very costly in the imposition of formal controls , without improving on the effectiveness of the informal controls that are inherent in the nature and purpose of professional work . ’ |
| 19 | Apart from a large range of marbled papers sold in many different colours and tones , there are also papers that are made from plant material themselves , and so would be very interesting to use in a design . |
| 20 | The risk in doing so would be that new patients might well not see the need to do so and might feel that this would be an inappropriate intrusion into the realm of individual freedom of choice in their personal lives and , further , that life might not be much fun in the straitjacket of abstinence from all these substances as well as from their prime drugs of choice . |
| 21 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 22 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 23 | So what about books — which normally do not carry adverts and so would be less threatening . |
| 24 | It would obviously would be particularly relevant to , to the Lowtown area , but I think it should also be seen in a , the wider context of Bridgenorth and the surrounding area . |
| 25 | Whether the Council I , I personally would be quite keen to go down there and see A , and we 'd need permission of the land owners , to do this , to see where the link could go across , you know , the best position , so that we , and I believe this is what Councillor is saying , so that we can actually come forward and maybe this ought to be a meeting with the Amenities Committee , maybe the Ramblers and bear in mind as I say again I hate to do these things and the land owner think we 're steamrollering 'em into something without their knowledge . |
| 26 | To see them together would be more painful than she could bear . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course if we had children , finding time together would be more difficult but after David 's well-publicised vasectomy , that 's not a possibility . |
| 28 | But for this feature , the short example program below would be very difficult to code . |
| 29 | First , intellectually : there is widespread agreement in the replies from partners that ‘ up to now theology and development have been very separate ; both disciplines looked at together will be very beneficial to people who are involved in social issues and who are looking for ways in which development can be integral to God 's plan . ’ |
| 30 | It 's quite a common condition , mostly affecting people under the age of about 30 , both sexes equally , and obviously can be very distressing . |