Example sentences of "it be [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't it be good to know that if you had an accident , you could be referred — in English to a lawyer or doctor immediately ? |
| 2 | on armaments and erm , I , would n't it be prudent to insure that erm they stop spending all this money on armaments before any aid is given to them ? |
| 3 | Seriously , as the Boundary Commission proceeds with its report over the next 10 years , would not it be correct to ensure that all parts of the United Kingdom had the same proportion of representatives ? |
| 4 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 5 | Of course , we 're all women here tonight , th , there are men carers as well , but would it be fair to say that the bulk of care responsibility falls on women or or is that is that unfair ? |
| 6 | Would it be fair to say that that 's a good statement to make ? |
| 7 | Then , and only then , will it be safe to assert that Parliament is no longer sovereign ; and until then United Kingdom courts will be right to follow the well-marked paths , even if this does result in conflict between the constitutional laws of the United Kingdom and Europe . |
| 8 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
| 9 | ‘ Sabine Jourdain was killed — would it be wise to pretend that never happened , either ? ’ |
| 10 | The ‘ folk community ’ is idealized , with no recognition of the huge variety of musical practices ( and social forms ) involved ( think of the differences between the music , and social function , of , say , West African griots , American Indian ceremonial songs and European medieval ballads ) ; in very , very few — if any — of these cases is there no class differentiation ( and thus hierarchies , divisions of function , and so on ) ; in none would it be true to say that musical production occurs ‘ naturally ’ rather than as the result of learned skills and conventions . |
| 11 | Now er with the vehicles on the road today more and more accidents And certainly motorways , and bearing in mind I would imagine , er would it be true to say that the majority of mo driving is done on motorways and dual carriageways ? |
| 12 | When we nodded assent , Mr Murray smiled ‘ And would it be true to suggest that my old friend Tom Warner is the Divisional Superintendent here for the C.P.R. ? |
| 13 | Polyester and polyurethane are quick-drying paints and it 's surprising to learn that bodies can be buffed only hours after their final coating . |
| 14 | It 's reasonable to suppose that people go into this business in search of fame . |
| 15 | We 've got clients , for example , where we are waiting for the sale of land to get our monies in , so it 's reasonable to expect that we 'll see that within the next three years . |
| 16 | I do n't think it 's reasonable to expect that you will ever get rid of jealousy or fear or anxiety . |
| 17 | Users often report experiencing the sort of twisted non-Euclidian dimensions associated with the Old Ones , so it 's reasonable to assume that this is how Mait made contact with them , or with whatever race memory remains of them , which amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 18 | He showed particular interest in that subsidence , it 's reasonable to assume that his object was to return to it at a time when there would be no one around to interfere with him . |
| 19 | Sybil also heard Angy giving Delia her address so it 's reasonable to assume that she was expecting a visit from her some time . |
| 20 | It 's reasonable to think that a two million bite from a fortune of several million is a bearable loss . |
| 21 | And er and although it nobody could ever say that the union was politically motivated er it it 's strange to relate that at union meeting when the general strike started and we of course we were n't in the T U C we were too small anyway , although I know that there 's been unions with twenty eight members in the T U C now . |
| 22 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's strange to think that pile of tapes is all that 's left of Nicola 's life , is n't it ? ’ |
| 24 | It 's sad to see that so many people feel that they have to move away . |
| 25 | ‘ Chimpanzees are so like us intellectually and physiologically , it 's absurd to think that we ca n't have some kind of rapport . ’ |
| 26 | If , then , this column is going to be devoted to what could be called the ecology ( or Eco-logy ) of popular culture , it 's obliged to recognize that none of the emblematic artifices and artefacts of that culture , be they movies , commercials , headlines , photographs , typefaces , fashions or fads , can any longer be trusted to be ‘ innocent ’ ; that even if the crisp elegance of the typeface in which this article is embedded emits a ‘ meaning ’ as much as does the text itself , that meaning is also just as conscious and deliberate . |
| 27 | It 's impossible to answer that questions , Bill , really . |
| 28 | Although we have night or day flights from Manchester , Glasgow at Gatwick , it 's impossible to arrange that all of these are timed to suit yacht turn-rounds , elusive Greek ferries or the available coaches . |
| 29 | It 's odd to realise that Albert Barnes , the cantankerous Pennsylvanian who amassed one of the greatest collections of Matisse , Picasso and Cézanne , went to school with both William Glackens and John Sloan . |
| 30 | benefits , not knowing where to find out about benefits , and I think it 's right to say that benefits agency staff are there to give information and there is a |