Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [modal v] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child 's response may be either manual pointing or eye pointing . |
| 2 | However , Townsend 's response would be that true deprivation is indicated by the fact that choice in matters of style of living is an issue that does not arise among the poor : for example , three million people presumably do not choose not to heat the living area of their homes in winter ( see Mack , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | At age 11 , the SAT should be of greater length and complexity , and the pupil 's response might be mainly but not exclusively written . |
| 4 | Subjects may teach the experimenters how to behave … so as to increase the likelihood that the next subject 's response will be more in the direction of the experimenter 's expectancy . ’ |
| 5 | However , the candidate 's response can be very revealing and interviewers should pay attention to it . |
| 6 | The Beggar 's view is , reasonably , that Hoccleve 's income should be enough even though he had a wife , and has by marrying her , cut off the possibility of a career in the Church . |
| 7 | The House of Lords in Bunge Corpn v Tradax ( 1981 ) tabulated several factors which are relevant in the determination of the classification of a term as being a condition : ( 1 ) There are enormous practical advantages in certainty especially in string contracts where today 's buyer may be tomorrow 's seller . |
| 8 | But Jacques Delors 's ghost will be here all the time . |
| 9 | Goat 's milk can be so very pervasive . |
| 10 | Many of the materials used were brought by the Israelites from Egypt ( 11:2–3 ) and willingly given , so that God 's tent might be as worthy of him as they could make it . |
| 11 | At the end of the day it is a case of choosing what one 's faith will be about — a point which Christians are reluctant to acknowledge . |
| 12 | In fact , a man 's skin can be just as dry as a woman 's . |
| 13 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 14 | During this exchange , Lucien decided Mandru 's inspection must be over , and began to pull the hood over his head once more . |
| 15 | The third party 's dishonesty must be clearly established . |
| 16 | Some of the European Court of Justice 's opinions can be quite ‘ woolly ’ and do leave themselves open to a wider interpretation , but I do not believe that the opinion was meant to be interpreted so widely as to provide for an auditor recognised in one member state to practise in a second member state without any requirement to obtain local authorisation . |
| 17 | And a society 's ideology must be constantly reproduced if the society is to survive , just as ( for example ) an industrial society must continually renovate and update its machinery and ensure that the next generation of workers is produced , kept alive and prepared for productive labour . |
| 18 | Though Jean 's resignation will be officially recognised at the next Annual General Meeting , we would like to be first in recording our grateful thanks for the tremendous amount of hard work and time which she has given to the Society during her years in office . |
| 19 | Labour 's policies would be mercilessly attacked , but the personalities would receive the ‘ Ashdown treatment ’ — in other words , sex scandals apart , they would be regarded as far too bland for a no-holds-barred hatchet job . |
| 20 | In retrospect Reagan 's policies could be positively judged . |
| 21 | It will only be at the end of time that God 's glory will be fully visible in the church . |
| 22 | The product strategy is combined with fixed-price package services that provide a ‘ no-shelfware ’ commitment that OpenVision 's products will be successfully installed and functional within a predictable budget . |
| 23 | For if retribution and denunciation were all punishment achieved , the criminal 's freedom would be gratuitously diminished without this doing anything to improve anyone 's prospects for exercising choice . |
| 24 | The Type II model may lead to inequity between health care groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , i.e. mainly elective surgery . |
| 25 | On the other hand , Type II systems would appear to allow little scope for equity between groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , that is mainly elective surgery . |
| 26 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 27 | Yet it remains true that Julian 's experience can be fruitfully compared to that of the prophets of Israel , for example , or to that of Muhammad , the prophet of Islam . |
| 28 | Run a program of this type on both your machine and your friend 's and compare results — your friend 's PC should be about 20 per cent faster , all other things being equal . |
| 29 | The purchaser 's plans may be commercially sensitive , dictating the need to first approach targets anonymously . |
| 30 | Time 's footfall can be so stealthy , even in front of one 's nose : a tree , already sprawled at an angle on the cliff face , dropping a couple of feet ; a tail of scree starting higher on the hill . |