Example sentences of "[noun] [ex0] [vb mod] [verb] to be " in BNC.

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1 In relation to offences involving personal violence there would appear to be little evidence from the survey to substantiate claims that Merseyside is an exceptionally violent area In relation to household crimes , however , the rate in Merseyside is substantially higher and in the case of burglary three times higher than the national average .
2 Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse .
3 Apart from the restraint of trade considerations there would seem to be no reason why a contract under which one person undertakes to keep silent on a particular subject should not be enforceable in accordance with its terms .
4 While there is some research activity in linking statistical models to GIS there would seem to be scope for further applications of operations research techniques to GIS problems .
5 The owner of an animal sanctuary that 's being forced to close down says some of the animals there will have to be killed .
6 If the sale of Target will generate an allowable loss there may need to be an intra-group transfer of beneficial ownership of Target before the management buy-out , so that the loss can be utilised by a group company which will , in the same accounting period , realise gains from the the disposal of other assets .
7 more per head from United Kingdom taxation than the rest of the United Kingdom , so unless England , of its benevolence , gave more tax revenues to Scotland there would have to be a 5p increase in tax just to stand still .
8 For such a contention there would seem to be not a shred of evidence .
9 ‘ Without a regional programme of new settlements there will continue to be sprawl around old market towns and villages , a continuous free-for-all among the house builders , and an excess of appeals for the Secretary of State to consider . ’
10 When an added stress threatens a newly won independence there may need to be , a temporary reuniting .
11 Owing to the unusual circumstances there would have to be a coroner 's inquest .
12 This provides that : There follows a set of four rules specifying which law is to apply , depending on the nature of the equipment There would seem to be no gaps here .
13 It is felt that until there is a totally independent investigation there will continue to be a lack of public confidence in the system .
14 Within that period there will continue to be stated periods for exchange of pleadings and other interlocutory steps since these provide a guide to parties and a means by which they can keep one another up to schedule .
15 In places there may appear to be almost none ; yet we know that huge numbers of diatoms are produced , but that most are rapidly consumed .
16 Coun Jim Skinner ( Lab ) said if the companies went ahead with the boycott there would have to be changes made to the traffic slowing scheme .
17 In a separate study which Jenkins and Sherman quote , from the Institute of Manpower Studies at the University of Sussex , the estimate was that for there to be enough jobs created to keep unemployment down to the levels of the mid-1970s there would need to be growth in the gross domestic product ( GDP ) averaging 3.5 per cent per annum in the UK .
18 Though , of course there 'll have to be an inquest .
19 Of course there will have to be a register : otherwise , the system will be thrown into chaos .
20 I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom .
21 According to the rules there would have to be a second ballot .
22 On 5 December The Scotsman said : ’ Of course , upon devolution there would have to be an adjustment in spending : there is no dispute about that . ’
23 If machines such as JET prove the scientific feasibility of fusion there will have to be even larger machines if we are to prove fusion 's technical and economic feasibility .
24 If the thing 's to be more than a game there 'll have to be some risks .
25 In many situations there would seem to be an obvious need for a CD approach to health care , professionals and communities working together to increase communities ' hold over a precarious existence , tackling causes rather than symptoms .
26 The thought is presumably that , whereas at present any monopoly or complex monopoly situation can in principle be referred to the MMC , under an Article 86-type policy there would have to be prima facie evidence of abuse .
27 Pervasive though this negative tradition is , it does n't quite answer why it is that in a post-Christian society there should continue to be so much indifference to the claims of animals .
28 Brewers hailed the move as ‘ sheer common sense ’ , but anti-alcohol pressure groups and some MPs gave warning there would have to be stringent safety measures in pubs used by families with children .
29 Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ .
30 We estimate that since we in Grampian deliver about 1% of British babies there would have to be about 6500 extra caesarean sections in Britain each year if current practice is similar to ours and was replaced by routine elective caesarean section .
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