Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Infection of the fallopian tubes must remain the most important cause of infertility today , although only a minority of cases will be due to gonorrhoea . |
| 32 | Answer guide : Fixed costs in the majority of cases will be unavoidable ; that is they will be incurred whether or not an opportunity is accepted or rejected . |
| 33 | In some of the applied sciences the number of hours may be considerable while in an Arts course the formal teaching periods may be relatively few . |
| 34 | The size of groups can be difficult to measure , because dolphins apparently travelling separately may in fact be part of a widely spread group in acoustic communication with each other . |
| 35 | Those who find walking the pavements a hairy-scary experience at the best of times will be interested to hear that Durham constabulary now advocates cycling there , too . |
| 36 | Several share KPMG 's view that ‘ the responsibility paragraphs more logically belong outside the report ’ and that ‘ if an uncertainty is properly disclosed in the accounts , such accounts can present a true and fair view without the auditors having to refer to it … a set of accounts should be complete in itself , without having to read the audit opinion ’ . |
| 37 | Given that these change over time , the dominance of the industry by a certain nationality of institutions may be transitory . |
| 38 | In this sense it intends to foster the idea that the internal organisation of institutions should be open and democratic . |
| 39 | Redundancies will take place across the company 's 1,300 workforce but Granada insists ‘ quality of programmes will be unaffected ’ . |
| 40 | The persuasive Lawrence convinced Kernaghan a change of clubs would be good for him . |
| 41 | Since to present all subjects in the literature would generate very lengthy schedules , the listing of subjects must be selective . |
| 42 | Since the enumeration of all subjects generates excessively long schedules , in practice the listing of subjects must be selective ( even if relatively long schedules are acceptable ) . |
| 43 | The order of subjects must be systematic and generally acceptable to the anticipated users of index or collection ; it should also facilitate effective browsing between related subjects . |
| 44 | The edges and corners of borders can be frustrating places to plant . |
| 45 | FoE blames the rise of the supermarket for the decline in the use of the refillable bottle , and cites a survey last year which showed that 84 per cent of shoppers would be prepared to return containers to retailers if supermarkets set up a suitable system . |
| 46 | Lists of books can be tedious but such a selection from various subjects is necessary to provide a proper picture of this collection . |
| 47 | He adds that any killing of animals should be painless , and their use in experiments restricted as far as possible to ‘ the less highly organised ’ creatures . |
| 48 | The petitions on their own may be unreliable , but the response of the Crown to them must surely be an indication that they had some substance : a government which was regularly short of funds would be unlikely to grant remissions , and the fact that different towns were allowed varying amounts of tax allowance suggests that some attempt was made to calculate the resources available . |
| 49 | A list of winners will be available to those sending a S.A.E. to the competition address within 8 weeks of the closing date . |
| 50 | A list of winners will be available to those sending an S.A.E. to : Promoters ; Stoves Ltd , . |
| 51 | Its use is most appropriate for " open-ended " problems where an infinity of solutions may be possible for a given set of design parameters . |
| 52 | Changes in the log of variables can be used to measure the percentage change of that variable . |
| 53 | The uncontrolled increase in the number of authors might be remediable to some extent by journals devising a collective policy . |
| 54 | This raises the possibility that in some instances the number of authors may be negotiable : by limiting the number of cited authors to six , last authors receive acknowledgment in citation listings . |
| 55 | This way of seeing the development of databases can be misleading because it should not be implied that either each new generation will replace the previous generation ( all these systems will be used for some foreseeable time in the future ) or that each new generation is necessarily better than the previous one ( the appropriateness or otherwise of an approach will depend on the organisation and its applications ) . |
| 56 | Sir David Smith , the principal of Edinburgh University , has suggested that the MPs who shout most loudly for league tables of schools should be subject to the same treatment . |
| 57 | Local inspectors of schools will be answerable to the Inspectorate , which will also have a new role as Education Ombudsman . |
| 58 | The majority of readers will be familiar with the nitrogen cycle , which is the process by which organic waste is decomposed into ammonia , nitrite and finally nitrate . |
| 59 | If , however , the group to be studied is larger , then a wider range of methods will be necessary , and we are dealing with a ‘ community study ’ . |
| 60 | This type of award is , however , highly competitive and only a limited number of candidates will be successful . |