Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be easier said than done but if you have a clear idea of the purpose of the meeting and have prepared a thorough list of everything you want to know then you must stick to your guns and carry on relentlessly until you have worked your way through it . |
| 2 | Like gesture , this may be consciously controlled or it may be something of which we are largely unaware . |
| 3 | This may be temporarily quashing but it does not satisfy … |
| 4 | All of this should be easily understood when it is realised that the effect of the contract being avoided or frustrated is generally that the parties are no longer required to carry out the contract ; they are excused . |
| 5 | The EC has set a limit of 100 ug/litre but a US study suggests this should be significantly reduced because of a ‘ highly significant relationship ’ between chloroform and cancers of the bladder , colon and rectum . |
| 6 | This might be better put as follows : that the specialist language and the written formalised text alike served the purposes of the particular sub-culture . |
| 7 | 'Cos this could be just stuff that we 're just buying in ? |
| 8 | You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT . |
| 9 | The floor was thick with bird droppings but this would be roughly cleaned and a layer of straw put down . |
| 10 | One such theory is the ‘ Now Print ! ’ mechanism ( Brown & Kulik , 1977 ; Livingston , 1967a , 1967b ) which has been proposed as a special memory mechanism which operates only at times of great arousal to encode specific details of the situation , this will be briefly considered when evidence about flashbulb and vivid memories is discussed below . |
| 11 | This will be much appreciated because it saves agency staff time and effort in trying to find you work unnecessarily . |
| 12 | For example , the technical teacher is trying to convey various models to his pupils , some of the models will be physically based as in describing particular machines or systems and some will be functionally based as when he talks about thermodynamics or communication . |
| 13 | But not all pupils enter school at age 5 with the same experience and competence : some will be further advanced than others by virtue of their family background . |
| 14 | It is maintained , accordingly , that an ontological existent can be fully described and distinguished from any other similar existent in terms of its properties alone , and that its " relational " no less than any of its other properties are part of its essential description . |
| 15 | This can be easily recognised if Bizet 's music for Carmen is compared with De Falla 's fur The Three-Cornered Hat . |
| 16 | The over-use of interpreters ( e.g. interpreting all day at college for a deaf student ) is probably typical of the early stages of development of the interpreting profession ( Herbert , 1978 ) but one hopes this can be quickly overcome as better provision is made . |
| 17 | However , if we acknowledge that family communications follow a pattern developed over time , and this can be usefully observed and adapted with younger families , is it not reasonable to assume that with older families too such a process could be helpful in some cases ? |
| 18 | Fortunately some can be successfully treated or controlled by particular therapies . |
| 19 | ‘ I think that 'll be better answered when we 're alone together . |
| 20 | Marly lands should be sown early and the reasons for it , light and sandy need not be sown early , and the reasons , wet and marshy must be well dug and furrowed , batten and derelict lands should be sown with broom . |
| 21 | Hunched in a remote and subordinate cranny of government — devising a rent bill at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government , as a matter of fact — I was not disposed to go overboard when our armed forces were launched into the attack in November ; but what on earth was intended to come out of it and how an occupation found untenable could be tenably restored and sustained by force was beyond the comprehension of this unmoved spectator . |
| 22 | If the criterion to predict abuse is 80 per cent accurate ( and no device available has such a high level of accuracy ) and if the rate of abuse in the population is 10 in a 100 , then if 1000 people/families are screened , 80 out of the 100 will be correctly identified while 20 will be missed ( false negative ) . |
| 23 | That could be easier said than done . |
| 24 | Greek theologians who had been trained in Italy and who had been very impressed by Aquinas and his Aristotelian Christianity were opposed and defeated by St Gregory Palamas , who refused to consider God in any sense as a concept , however inspiring , that could be rationally discussed and analysed . |
| 25 | Each of these may be further subdivided and the typology shown in Fig. 10.1 draws upon the classic work of Burton and Kates ( 1964 ) in separating geophysical from biological hazards and Zeigler et al. ( 1983 ) in distinguishing public ( or what we might call societal ) hazards from private ( individual ) ones . |
| 26 | These should be either printed or duplicated and state how many issues are produced during the year . |
| 27 | Questions : these should be open ended and not answerable with a simple single reply . |
| 28 | These should be fully understood and accepted by the subordinate ; tasks should be assigned to the subordinate who should agree to do them ; |
| 29 | East Germans had substantial savings , estimated at nearly 180,000 million East German marks , and many feared that these might be drastically devalued when a currency union was introduced . |
| 30 | Of the four lecturers I interviewed , three could be broadly described as ‘ traditional ’ in their views , while one might be described as having a ‘ radical ’ viewpoint in so far as she challenged the conventional wisdom of English studies . |