Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when some security staff are located outside the hotel , they may need to be in constant communication with their colleagues inside the building , in order to verify that people arriving are bona fide guests , for example . |
| 2 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 3 | LAST year 's accounts were concluded with my statement — ‘ We must continue to be of cautious mind as to the immediate future , confident nevertheless that our chosen strategy best equips the group to weather the ongoing economic turbulence . ’ |
| 4 | To a casual observer water on a surface may appear to be in complete contact with it . |
| 5 | The analysis may appear to be unlike those which , to speak quickly and only of one central matter , describe something like a causal circumstance and an effect as two items which fall under a law , and then proceed to attempt to give an account of what a law is a true proposition of a certain character . |
| 6 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 7 | I should save the trip until the weekend , when we can all go , besides , she 'll be bored with all your old historical studies , she 'll want to be with other people of her own age , other Americans , perhaps — I mean , there are plenty of them about the place , goodness knows , and that shirt should really go in the wash straight away . ’ |
| 8 | So for the first activity you 'll need to be in twos or threes . |
| 9 | Clark 's argument might appear to be on firmer ground had he restricted the human comparison to total imbeciles ( anencephalics and the like ) where the complete lack of linguistic ability , and even of its behavioural prototypes in many cases , would prevent any appeal to exclusively human propensities . |
| 10 | But the arrangement is more artful than it might appear to be at first sight . |
| 11 | Moreover , in this particular case the justices were hearing this application on 27 January 1992 against the background which included the making of a full care order on 15 May 1991 , an order which , as I have already indicated , was made after hearing submissions by the guardian ad litem and by the local authority which might seem to be in marked distinction to the submissions being made now , only a few months later . |
| 12 | On the basis of the meanings expressed , all the uses of the to infinitive can be divided into two general types which at first sight might seem to be in direct contradiction with one another . |
| 13 | Although , in years to come , these might prove to be of social interest , many such letters refer only to domestic and personal trivia and , having personally recently discovered a letter written to me over 30 years ago by my wife just before we were married , I would not want this to be read by anyone else at all . |
| 14 | mind you I 'd like to be like that |
| 15 | She 'd have to be with that hair ! |
| 16 | This new right could prove to be of particular utility in medical negligence claims . |
| 17 | There are two commonly-used types of filter that could prove to be of little , if any use , in the course of keeping large cichlids — the small corner box filter and the sponge filter . |
| 18 | ‘ I would like to , I think — but I 'm afraid I might be like that — I think I would want to be like that . |
| 19 | In this more specific area of debate , the issue is whether or not the child will be so badly handicapped that it will be unable to sustain a life which society would consider to be in any sense worthwhile . |
| 20 | The evidence would need to be of positive performance ; that is , pupils taking the tests should have a high chance of success . |
| 21 | Also , he lived in Wales and therefore would need to be in frequent telephone contact with C.N.D. headquarters . |
| 22 | The metabolic expression of the thrifty genotype favouring non-insulin dependent diabetes would appear to be via selective tissue insulin resistance and relatively high basal and stimulated insulin concentrations . |
| 23 | The answer would appear to be with less determination than Labour and with fewer changes in policy . |
| 24 | This does not seem to me a very sensible strategy , because on the face of it these ideas would appear to be of potential relevance to pedagogic practice . |
| 25 | Although no country would choose to be without indigenous energy resources , a number of countries lacking access to significant gas , oil , or coal resources have avoided much of the divisive and damaging controversies which have afflicted successive UK governments in their efforts to make the best of being an island built of coal , surrounded by oil and gas and one of the pioneers of nuclear engineering . |
| 26 | Above us , they indulge in fits of nostalgia , remembering the heady days of the Poll Tax riots , and in artificially enlarging the number present with all those who are there in spirit : ‘ There are a lot of people who would like to be on this demonstration . |
| 27 | In other words it would have to be job beneficial , it would have to be of strategic importance and and all those other things we 've been discussing . |
| 28 | To be worthwhile , any such conference would have to be of sufficient weight so that it could have a decisive effect on the ‘ official ’ international conferences — several of which had already taken place with the express purpose of reviewing the treaty , but which had succeeded in producing only confusion and bitterness . |
| 29 | She would have to be with this boy . |
| 30 | In the main , larval control would have to be near perfect in its efficiency and to allow very few adults to survive . |