Example sentences of "[conj] it [modal v] be [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in most cases , the private person , even if not acting in the course of a business , is still really entering into a commercial transaction and it seems more likely that there will be more cases than in the first category where it will be reasonable that he accept some liability . |
| 2 | I assess the student 's ability and level of performance , and I might come to the conclusion that they had done pretty well to get those grades ; or it might be obvious that they could have done better . ’ |
| 3 | First , although it may be true that functional explanations of the kind he discusses remain incomplete until we understand the mechanisms which sustain them , they may nevertheless be explanatory . |
| 4 | And although it may be true that readers of Hot Press for example , are n't led by sexual ignorance into seeing man and woman only as adversaries , there also are those girls who are forced to go to England all the time for abortions and they ca n't be that far from the world I depict . |
| 5 | Yet although it may be true that many types and styles of kung fu began here , it can not be realistically argued that all the varieties of kung fu that were and are still practised in China have their roots in Shaolin . |
| 6 | However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection . |
| 7 | In most cases a single example of the relationships between the object and a given contextual domain has been selected for illustrative purposes , although it will be obvious that there is a vast number of alternative relevant instances . |
| 8 | Very very very briefly Chairman , erm first of all you can see in paragraph two point three and you see the matter that 's being erm the subject of discussion previously erm there was n't to be an issues report as such , but er Stragg itself the advisory group did feel that it would be useful that er er a leaflet be prepared and distributed erm you I do n't think Chairman would have seen it , but hot off the presses is being erm with us this morning er an an and only delivered this morning are some copies of th the leaflet that we have now erm prepared er you will have seen that in draft form Chairman and members of Strang will have seen that draft form so er both Stragg members and other members of the Committee if they would like to take a copy away with them , that there are a number here , but they will be er given wide distribution later on . |
| 9 | Okay but all I was just saying is that it would be helpful that before we that Ian has seen through these |
| 10 | It is said that it would be wrong that the justices should be put in a position of making an order on the merits of the case that there should be no contact , when the next day the local authority and the parent could depart from that order . |
| 11 | A fair voting system , which we would also like to see in local government , would mean that it would be unlikely that there would ever be extremist Labour councils . |
| 12 | I think the things that have come out of this for me er from Councillor actually is that it would be unlikely that we , we or would be allocating that plan today and I think the amount of traffic has increased through the town centre would make it foolish and one does wonder at the wisdom if all the development went along which had to be serviced then through er Street and through the town centre in to the main areas of employment that happened years ago . |
| 13 | In La Male Honte , " Foul shame " ( although the title itself is ambiguous , representing Anglo-French " The purse of Honte " , and the fabliau itself revolves around this ambiguity ) , the deceased Honte 's friend carries the legacy due to the crown to the king " " a son col " " : simply , " on his back " , although since we know that we are reading a " " fablel " " we are especially prepared for a word such as col = " arse " , and have to carry forward in our minds to the rest of the fabliau the notion that it might be significant that the friend carries what is due to the king on his backside . |
| 14 | So in the early 1920s some people conjectured that it may be possible that helium — element number two in the periodic table of the elements — could be built from two hydrogen atoms . |
| 15 | Again the problem will arise that it will be unlikely that a company will satisfy the text to qualify as a family company . |
| 16 | I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book . |
| 17 | It has been suggested , on the basis of inhibitor studies , that protein tyrosine kinases ( PTKs ) are involved in LTP , and it may be relevant that NMDA receptor activation leads to tyrosine phosphorylation of MAP-2 kinase . |
| 18 | In the iconography , they far outnumber the priests and male attendants , and it may be significant that on Side A of the Agia Triadha larnax the lyre player is a male dressed in a priestess 's robe . |
| 19 | Although the depositions must be somewhat suspect , it is likely that the countess did feel herself under pressure to agree , and it may be significant that her feoffees , after agreeing in principle to the transfer , then dragged their feet over finalizing it and had to be sued in chancery by Gloucester and , nominally , the countess . |
| 20 | Although the depositions must be somewhat suspect , it is likely that the countess did feel herself under pressure to agree , and it may be significant that her feoffees , after agreeing in principle to the transfer , then dragged their feet over finalizing it and had to be sued in chancery by Gloucester and , nominally , the countess . |
| 21 | Siward himself fell ill , and returned to Abingdon in 1048 , and it may be significant that at about this point close resemblances between C and E cease . |
| 22 | Reported cases are small in number , and it may be true that in some ( not all ) of these cases the degree of trauma suffered by the wife is less than if the rape had been by another man ; but abolition of the marital-rape exemption is surely important as a statement of the married woman 's autonomy and freedom of choice in sexual matters . |
| 23 | Similarly you may have combined with your application for judgment one for an interim award and it would be absurd that the benefit of that award should be lost in providing the costs of the action thus far . |
| 24 | Were getting into an area which I think is a whole different programme and before this programme started I might tell you we were having a little er discussion amongst ourselves whether or not er zoo 's were good for animals and I suppose there is a discussion about whether prisons are inevitably going to be degrading because of , because of what er , what , what a prison represents which is a curtailment of freedom , but we do n't have time in this programme , so that 's another one for next year , can I ask you , we 've , we 've touched a lot of basis and it must be frustrating that we ca n't pursue er to the end some of the things we 've er , we 've picked on , but can I ask you a couple of final questions , as far as you know have you committed a crime ? , button one for yes and button two for no , as far as you know , I mean we have n't got time to go into what they might be so your perfectly free to be very honest and honestly reveals that three people are n't quite sur , oh yes there they are |
| 25 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 26 | Add to these statistics that translations have now appeared in some 850 languages and it will be apparent that , except in a few notable cases , rarity is not often a factor to be reckoned with . |
| 27 | For the first time this year , Messrs Cronin and Co will be looking up to their opposite numbers and it will be essential that both blockers and sweepers are doing their job . |
| 28 | Oliver 's serenade will introduce us to Vitellia and Sesto , Annio and Servillia , and the Emperor Titus — ‘ and it will be clear that the first couple have a really terrible time , and that the second pair have a really nice time , and that the last gent , the one who does n't get married at the end , has to reconcile the emotions of the other four in himself . ’ |
| 29 | Add to this the fact that our universities and practically all our major cultural institutions are run by English people , and that many of the executive posts in local government and other organisations are occupied by them , and it will be clear that Scotland is rapidly being colonised , indeed being turned into an extension of England . |
| 30 | The rolling stall turn is one of the most difficult manoeuvres and it should be apparent that it requires a clean , high powered , helicopter . |