Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adj] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But there are just as many times when it would be nice to be anonymous . |
| 32 | It would be nice to be able to ride . |
| 33 | When a pet cat has started scratching the fabric of a valuable chair , for example , or has begun to make messes on an expensive carpet , it would be helpful to be able to sprinkle or smear some hated odour there to keep the animal away . |
| 34 | Most of this has to do with Veronica Lake 's deep , husky voice : a smoky spirit whose name and form collectively conjured up a feminine aura of water , vapour , air , smoke and flesh at the same time ; a floating dreamboat that any boy of six would be proud to be married to . |
| 35 | She sounded doubtful , but McLeish decided it would be possible to be frightened of Giles Hawick . |
| 36 | It would be useful to be able to separate patients into good and poor prognostic groups . |
| 37 | In one sense , in a report about ‘ environmental scanning ’ , it would be good to be able to report that those engaged in that activity had solved this problem of making the information that they deliver , directly usable by those to whom it is delivered . |
| 38 | ‘ I thought it would be good to be free to get on with my own affairs , ’ she said , ‘ but I suffered quite severe depression . |
| 39 | He decided that it would be best to be plain and friendly . |
| 40 | It would be convenient to be able to write an instruction to add into the accumulator the contents of store address 99 , and to have some automatic means for modifying the instruction just prior to its execution , so that it refers successively to addresses 100 , 101 , 102 , and so on . |
| 41 | In both cases the creditor had left it to the debtor husband to deal with the surety , his wife , and had done nothing to satisfy itself that she understood what she was doing or to protect her from abuse by the debtor of the influence and reliance that would be likely to be present . |
| 42 | There was no evidence that the defendants were aware of the existence of those whom their conduct offended , although the court said that there was evidence from which the magistrates were entitled to infer that the appellants ‘ must have known that other people would be likely to be present . ’ |
| 43 | No , but what I have done is to give you my expert opinion that any developments within the conservation area er within the D thirty nine part of the conservation area would be likely to be destructive of the character of the ancient part of the village . |
| 44 | Discovery can be ordered before the commencement of such proceedings against a person likely to be a party to the proceedings , and after the commencement of such proceedings against third parties , but not where compliance would be likely to be injurious to the public interest . |
| 45 | This time he did not mention giving lessons but said it would be lovely to be able to play to me . |
| 46 | ‘ It would be wonderful to be able to do pictures . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ It would be childish to be jealous just because Morrissey holds the focal point , ’ he said . |
| 48 | This is a serious problem , for defects like these have a dramatic effect on the functioning of an electronic device , and it would be desirable to be able to predict their properties . |
| 49 | It would be desirable to be able to discard those candidates which are too short or too long to be the correct word — this would reduce the number of candidate words to be considered for further processing . |
| 50 | Or did he believe she would be afraid to be alone in the forest ? |
| 51 | ‘ If there is such a lady , it would be enough to be friendly . |
| 52 | Others in the group argued that up to a point all those things were right , but that often a subject was complex , often it could be constructive for everyone to have a chairperson who would guide discussion , not control it , who would be able to be supportive when someone talked too much or too little . |
| 53 | He said the life expectancy of a large bus was about 15 years , while minibuses would be unlikely to be viable for longer than eight years . |
| 54 | This is somewhat unrealistic because provided the government has a majority in the House of Commons , any parliamentary challenge to such a decision on political grounds would be unlikely to be successful . |
| 55 | In view of this it seems appropriate to study mucosal metabolism in ileal as well as colonic mucosa in UC patients and controls in the expectation that any abnormalities that could be detected in the histologically normal ileum of ulcerative colitis patients would be unlikely to be secondary phenomena . |
| 56 | Secondly , individual health authorities would enter the ‘ internal market ’ with different historical endowments of facilities and would be unlikely to be able to compete equally for contracts . |
| 57 | A nine year old whose father had just left the family home would be unlikely to be able to concentrate upon mathematics or science if he were beset with worries about his mother . |
| 58 | Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind |
| 59 | In addition , individual health authorities would enter the ‘ Internal Markets ’ with different historical endowments of facilities and would be unlikely to be able to compete equally for contracts . |
| 60 | Opponents of this proposal , who included the Comptroller General , Charles Bowsher , argued that a borrowing limit above that of $25,000 million originally sought by the FDIC would threaten to draw the federal government further into debt , because the FDIC would be unlikely to be able to honour such a high level of debt on its own , and could itself be compelled eventually to turn to the government for rescue funding . |