Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are confident that , highly skilled and dedicated and absolutely tireless , the surgeon will treat each operation — no matter how many operations he or she carries out that day … that week … that year — as unique and fascinating , that he or she will be in top form — for them . |
| 2 | Where there is coverage of such systems as potential IT-based contributors to improved corporate strategy , the reference will be to systems that are not normally the province of librarians and information scientists ( such as financial market systems , credit-rating services ) ; or it will be to videotex-based systems which most librarians and information scientists would n't be seen dead using ! ( cf. Prestel ) . |
| 3 | However , as Alec explained to me in detail the procedures involved I began to realise that I could be in trouble , that I could be in serious trouble . |
| 4 | This is bound to be somewhat artificial , since the obligation to show all the stages of your reasoning forces you to appear rather more introspective than you would be in real life , but it still provides good practice in arranging and presenting material in an acceptable style . |
| 5 | I mean in n things like swimming baths are chlorinated so they 've got a low bug count anyway , so , so you 'll be at low risk of getting anything there . |
| 6 | Impressed as we may be by the caddis house , we are nevertheless , paradoxically , less impressed than we would be by equivalent achievements in animals closer to ourselves . |
| 7 | Although they might be in major shops soon , they 're presently only available from |
| 8 | And although subsequent reviews found it thoroughly sane and quite uncontroversial , clerics of the Church of England publicly announced that they would be on standby alert to deal with any members of their congregation upset by the programmes . |
| 9 | Pension schemes are vital to many of our constituents , and I should have thought that they would be of equal importance to Conservative Members in Scotland , who may soon have to look to their own pension schemes although the Minister has reassured me that he may have other arrangements . |
| 10 | This whole issue about er children , junior church , other activities , children being compromised , adults finding it difficult to insist or persuade their children , that they should be in junior church , when other folks are trying to tempt them in other directions . |
| 11 | The results of the research will be made available to Enterprise Agencies in the hope that they will be of practical use . |
| 12 | ‘ I already have 500 pigeons so they will be in good company . ’ |
| 13 | A post in Italy , the nature of which I never fully learnt , save that it would be of sufficient importance to take me out of uniform if I were in it , fell through with Italy 's declaration of war . |
| 14 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 15 | Thus someone buying coal from the National Coal Board does have the benefit of the implied condition that it shall be of merchantable quality . |
| 16 | Whiting 's or Whitting 's as it is sometimes spelt has a name that seems to have come down through generations , and one authority tempts to suggest that it may be of Saxon period . |
| 17 | What will happen after the E.D.C. has the property has never been discussed but you can be assured that it will be for recreational . |
| 18 | What will happen after the E.D.C. has the property has never been discussed but you can be assured that it will be for recreational . |
| 19 | The flysheet suggests that it will be of particular interest to the neuropsychologist , the neurophysiologist , the linguist and thoughtful musicians . |
| 20 | Of course we hope you never have to make a claim — but if you do , rest assured that it will be in good hands . |
| 21 | Mercifully the issue of censorship in the UK is not at present the matter of life and death that it can be in other countries , yet various instances of censorship in recent years ( even in the library field ) have illustrated how inflammatory the question of censorship can be . |
| 22 | ( Among the virtues of reparation are that it could be of great value in assisting the ‘ reintegration ’ of offenders , as we discuss shortly . ) |
| 23 | You will tell him that it must be in secret and that it is very , very important . |
| 24 | If he were here to answer the question , I suspect that he would be in considerable difficulty if he tried to say that he continued to oppose those privatisations . |
| 25 | Gregson glanced at the clock on the dashboard and estimated that he could be at New Scotland Yard in less than thirty minutes , traffic permitting . |
| 26 | Then , pulling a large white ashtray towards him so it would be within easy reach , he lit a cigarette . |
| 27 | ‘ The back faces south , so it will be in full sun , ’ she went on . |
| 28 | And I shall be in big trouble if I return alone . |
| 29 | And I must be on top to let him take the full force of the impact . |
| 30 | If you tell the police , my wife and I will be in serious trouble . ’ |