Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even where we have overcome difficulties of technology and resources , as , for example , in producing multi-media stacks using Apple 's HyperCard ( or SuperCard ) , there is market resistance to purchasing what might otherwise come as public domain or ‘ shareware ’ and little that can be done to prevent illegal copying and resulting saturation of a limited market before costs are recovered . |
| 32 | There is , one must conclude , little that can be done . |
| 33 | Presumably this must be because , unlike the war-tax protesters , they do succumb to a competing individual right which is capable of being derived from the principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 34 | Presumably this could be contemplated only in a limited number of constituencies , since anything more ambitious would knock the stuffing out of local activists in one party or the other . |
| 35 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |
| 36 | This paper has shown just how successfully this can be done : we have transformed every finite program to a normal form to which it usually bears no syntactic or structural resemblance . |
| 37 | Mr Rifkind said : ‘ Quite properly this will be of enormous concern to people in Darlington and the North-East . ’ |
| 38 | Diagrammatically this would be shown as follows : |
| 39 | ‘ The pitch is huge and the longer the match goes on , the better that should be for us . |
| 40 | He could have parked it in the Hilton garage , but if he needed to leave suddenly that might be dangerous . |
| 41 | There is an embarrassing paradox in British technology , in that much of the information classified as ‘ secret ’ by HM Government is exceedingly trivial while much that should be secret is not . |
| 42 | They are internal statements of law expressing the point of view of those who accept the rule of recognition of the system and , as such , leave unstated much that could be stated in external statements of fact about the system . |
| 43 | In the eighteenth century none , with the possible exception of that of France , had carried out much that could be called research . |
| 44 | Site manager Ian Bruce agrees , ‘ We are achieving increased output and improved effiency , and there is still much that can be done to keep the business profitable . ’ |
| 45 | Well there ai n't much that 'd be fourteen to twenty , twenty calories is there ? |
| 46 | ‘ How long that 'll be ? ’ |
| 47 | Because this rate remains fixed throughout the period of the loan , however long that may be , your repayments will always be the same . |
| 48 | ‘ Unfortunately I ca n't tell you how long that will be , ’ Luke inserted drily as she pushed open the door . |
| 49 | Yes , perhaps that 'll be best . |
| 50 | Yeah well that is n't a prob well well perhaps that 'll be better if I had er long wheel base down here and do that first , that goes out first ? |
| 51 | She crossed to Patrick 's bed and rested her hand on his forehead ; it felt hot and his cheeks were certainly flushed — but perhaps that might be nothing more than the heat in the room . |
| 52 | There is only , well there are sixteen hours that er that Norman 's put down for the total technical work supervision on the job , I would have thought that perhaps that might be quite tight , er you know bearing in mind that it 's maybe a job that requires a |
| 53 | In a perfect world , perhaps that would be the case , but the fact is that Japan is at present responsible for some of the finest guitars available , and the Fuji Gen factory , from which the Starfield Japanese range comes , is home to the best of the best . |
| 54 | I should like to have known more about his views on possible links between social deprivation and suicidal intent , but perhaps that would be a different kind of book . |
| 55 | ‘ It would be gratifying if it held some more revelations , but perhaps that would be too much to hope for . |
| 56 | Perhaps that would be a good reason not to marry Buff . |
| 57 | Mr. Wilson : I fully understand that the Minister hopes that one bid will emerge and perhaps that would be the best answer , but if one bid does not emerge , will the Minister maintain the right to dictate that either only one bid will emerge or that he will condemn those involved in an alternative bid to effective disqualification ? |
| 58 | Perhaps that would be enough for them , if not for himself . |
| 59 | ‘ Perhaps that would be best , ’ she answered at last , after a long pause . |
| 60 | Perhaps that would be best . ’ |