Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [modal v] [adv] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Similarly , a fair exchange of values can only be realized by either a broad doctrine of unconscionability or a reversal of the rule that a court will not assess the adequacy of consideration .
2 In this context , two agreed conclusions of the 1985 meeting of experts can usefully be quoted :
3 Controls on farmers ' use of nitrates would just be voluntary to start with , and legal limits would be imposed only if the voluntary controls turned out to be ineffective .
4 Not surprisingly though , an agreement under subs ( 3 ) involving the creditors of a firm of solicitors will rarely be encountered .
5 A range of modellers should thus be made available and selected according to the needs of the specific problem being investigated .
6 In general , the results that we have reported in this chapter have been favourable to the rational expectations hypothesis , suggesting at the very least that the usefulness of that hypothesis in one area of macroeconomics can not be dismissed lightly .
7 This glut of contracts can also be partly explained by the actions of some banks supporting their national exchanges , and by some governments ' policies through their tax legislation and regulation actions which are aimed at establishing a presence in what is thought to be an essential requirement for each country 's financial centre .
8 The personal characters of artists can not be infallibly deduced from their work .
9 While perception of objects may not be prior to those mental apparati which absorb them ( a version of the Kantian categories ) , it does act as a firm physical constraint upon them .
10 Small groups of objects can sometimes be most effectively used in problem solving activities .
11 It this way the decisions of courts may frequently be predicted .
12 In our view the need for adequate management of Campaigns and of Personnel will not be met by the present proposal .
13 The understanding and support of personnel can not be assumed .
14 The likely total number of dies can then be multiplied by the average number of coins per die .
15 There would certainly be some alphabetical voting , and some guidance about the spreading of preferences would probably be given and accepted .
16 You see , even the most sympathetic of employers may not be able to afford to carry on paying you .
17 You see , even the most sympathetic of employers may not be able to afford to carry on paying you .
18 The intersection of surfaces can then be calculated .
19 It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing .
20 Two other directions taken in the 19th Century by the theory of groups should perhaps be mentioned .
21 This means that the exact nature of queries need not be predicted during database design .
22 Students who do n't know who half their lecturers are at the best of times ca n't be in a position to decide on their pay packets .
23 This means that even the best of gyros will always be a little too late to prevent any unwanted movement .
24 If such effects were included , the number of homophones would probably be still greater .
25 The quality of programmes may now be affected as cash cuts to offset the overspending are needed .
26 This sharing of skills from a range of disciplines can not be anything but beneficial to children and their parents .
27 The mix of skills should also be very different with an emphasis on analytical and contracting expertise .
28 A discipline that is structurally diverse , and consists of a loosely related collection of sub-fields might nevertheless be held together by a common ethos or set of norms , attitudes and habits ; even by a common style .
29 While the parent company in a multinational group will necessarily be registered in a particular country and the group headquarters and a preponderance of shareholders may also be located there , in the case of some multinationals it is scarcely any longer appropriate to regard them as having national loyalties .
30 The rhetorical approach sides with such critics , to the extent that it advocates that the social , and particularly the rhetorical , context of attitudes should not be ignored .
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