Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This measure may well have to be considered now ( as Washington is hinting ) , as it has become crystal-clear that the Bosnian war is being fomented by Milosevic and the extreme Serb leaders in Bosnia , and is primarily waged by the army . |
| 2 | In addition to their other responsibilities local authorities may still continue to be direct care providers if they so wish . |
| 3 | Local authorities may sometimes need to be reminded of this . |
| 4 | The second demands that the child itself should be the focus of our attention , although other sides of the case may also need to be dealt with . |
| 5 | Hence , worthwhile projects may not proceed or may be unnecessarily delayed , and plans may suddenly have to be changed when constraints are tightened ( see also Likierman , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | The fate of Henry Scott may yet prove to be a salutary lesson to those local authorities intending to expand their programmes of publishing homosexual-related literature , nor should librarians ignore this piece of history if they display homosexual literature amongst their new acquisitions or publish a booklist of homosexual literature . |
| 7 | Car dealers say the world 's fastest production car may not prove to be the sellout they 'd expected it to be . |
| 8 | Such optimism may still prove to be justified : but the bets are much riskier , now that China 's leadership has shown its continued reliance on the mailed fist and its continued vulnerability to factional disputes . |
| 9 | Obviously you need to appeal to the Regional Committee if as a branch you 're not happy , but this rule should n't need to be bent , we should have one that is ours to be used for branches , the General Secretary himself says that it 's happened on several occasions so let's be a real trade union , not one that borrows from Peter to pay Paul , let's have a proper rule for branches . |
| 10 | ( symbolic action should not have to be explained ! ) |
| 11 | In that case , the electorate might well prefer to be Red and live to fight another day rather than be consigned to a nuclear crematorium . |
| 12 | A further £40,000,000 might also have to be repaid in 1991 if amounts allocated for the restructuring of Rover 's former commercial division were not fully spent . |
| 13 | With this end in view the United States could not afford to be seen by the USSR as firmly aligned with Great Britain . |
| 14 | ( 1 ) For the purposes of arts 5 and 7 ( see above ) : ( a ) the value of an action for a sum of money , whether specified or not , is the amount which the plaintiff or applicant reasonably expects to recover ; ( b ) an action for specified relief other than a sum of money : ( i ) has a value equal to the amount of money which the plaintiff or applicant could reasonably state to be the financial worth of the claim to him , or ( ii ) where there is no such amount , has no quantifiable value . |
| 15 | But a forgery could always claim to be written by Moses in the same terms as an authentic Mosaic document . |
| 16 | The nature , aims and objectives of such an Association would therefore need to be carefully thought through , and its formal relationship to Convocation as a statutory body be clearly and unequivocally defined . |
| 17 | The defendant would not appear to be represented , therefore the committal will have to be dealt with by the way of reading out all the statements . |
| 18 | This particular trucker 's agent had gone out of business late on New Year 's Eve , one of a number of last-minute bankruptcies and mergers and a new agent would somehow have to be found to stamp his papers if Customs were to let him depart on the 20.15 sailing . |
| 19 | Such units would still require to be served from a more fully equipped hospital or other establishment to ensure the availability of the appropriate service departments , catering , supplies , laundry ( including personal clothes laundry etc ) and especially the rehabilitation department with assessment and rehabilitation facilities . |
| 20 | If variation rather than fidelity is required in the management of change , then the restrictive views of professionality and management currently underpinning much thinking would not seem to be the most appropriate model for the future . |
| 21 | The closure would probably have to be done in stages , eg one weekday a week to start with , though that could be worse than total closure because motorists would switch to local roads for one day , but total closure might force them to switch modes altogether . |
| 22 | This aid would also have to be continued in the longer term in order to totally eradicate certain diseases . |
| 23 | Mister Johnny ca n't bear to be teased , really ca n't bear it ] It sends him into a terrible rage . |
| 24 | If the goods delivered and accompanying invoice were for more or less than the amount recorded on the order , a correcting entry would also have to be made . |
| 25 | ‘ Pat would never like to be regarded as special but even in his critical condition he was still in fighting spirit . ’ |
| 26 | Whether upper and lower date limits ( terminus results ) such as these provide the archaeologist with a sufficiently detailed chronological picture will depend on a number of factors — the nature of the site and sequence to be interpreted , the archaeological questions being posed , and the samples available for dating — and the relevant dating methods would then need to be assessed . |
| 27 | One such seat would not seem to be an excessive demand in pursuit of an accepted objective , but it was more than the Conference would accept . |
| 28 | The carrier of the weak force would also have to be electrically charged , for a neutron to decay into a proton , for example . |
| 29 | A clear recommendation would therefore seem to be in the order for the Muti recording , but unfortunately EMI appears to have delated it . |
| 30 | Unfortunately this side will probably have to be scaled down , ’ said Mr Dixon . |