Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 2 | These would best be resolved by a form of cost-benefit which pays close attention to the social ‘ externalities ’ involved in investment projects , which compares the time profiles of return on projects competing for resources at non-usurious rates of discount , and which does not operate with the technocratic pretension that all factors in an investment decision can be rigorously quantified ( i.e. which does not disguise as purely technical questions matters which should properly be open to political debate ) . |
| 3 | Designed to tempt Christmas shoppers , it should already be available in selected Dixons and Currys centres by the time you read this . |
| 4 | These search systems must still be suitable for casual use by inept or inexperienced users . |
| 5 | Perhaps the least welcome part of the TA 's weekend is having to wash the Land-Rovers and motor cycles , and clean and store the kit , for all this equipment must always be ready for instant use . |
| 6 | With a lot of corporate entertaining , Sandra 's team must always be ready for special functions , and they pulled out all the stops for a particularly busy build-up to Christmas . |
| 7 | The licensing authority ( the Department of Trade & Industry ) should prepare an Environmental Statement on all ‘ environmentally sensitive areas ’ and such statements should always be available for public scrutiny prior to such areas being offered for licensing . |
| 8 | Such assessments should always be available for public scrutiny . |
| 9 | ( c.17 ) They should always be available to needy and oppressed persons " from whatever part of the realm " and of whatever rank , to bring their cases to the king 's ear . |
| 10 | Among policy areas , housing must clearly be responsive to demographic factors and therefore those concerned with housing should be aware of current demographic trends . |
| 11 | It should also be possible for extraordinary meetings of partners to be convened on reasonable notice ( Clause 17.04 ) ; by any one partner ( in a small or medium sized firm ) or a specified number ( in a larger concern ) . |
| 12 | Community-based-services should also be sensitive to emotional needs and can do much to foster the development of ‘ self-help ’ groups of service users . |
| 13 | It should now be possible to narrow down your choice , but look at your checklist again and again — compare the numbers of rooms and their sizes ; consider the garages — gardens — parking space . |
| 14 | In the UK , the client must either be eligible for legal aid , or fund the action himself and risk not recovering costs . |
| 15 | The outcome must ultimately be usable by British Industry to enhance its efficiency . |
| 16 | Provided that the need of slipping is spotted straight away , it should never be necessary to side-slip close to the ground . |
| 17 | One should therefore be sceptical about fertile she-mules , especially because Benirschke and his colleagues showed by examining her chromosomes that one claimant was in fact a donkey . |
| 18 | We should therefore be wary of collapsing antiracism let alone black emancipation into equal opportunities . |
| 19 | First , simple diffusion of chemicals could provide the signals ; secondly , if patterns are laid down in such small fields , their later development may largely be due to programmed growth . |
| 20 | Although microspectrophotometric measurements are usually made by passing the beam transversely through the outer segment , our measurements of cells in these foveal patches were necessarily axial ; the absorption spectra may thus be subject to minor distortion by inert pigments in the inner segments , by waveguide effects , or by scattering in other retinal tissue . |
| 21 | ( An added bonus of this method is that she 'll already be familiar with left-to-right logic when she comes to start reading . ) |
| 22 | For example , an office held at pleasure might nevertheless be subject to procedural fairness where the statutory scheme would be less effective if the right to be heard were not implied . |
| 23 | Our collections would be a random sample from the wild cocoa population , to be handed over to cocoa breeders who could screen them for genes that would be useful under their own conditions : a genotype that was susceptible to witches ' broom disease might still be useful for other reasons to farmers in West Africa , where this disease does not occur . |
| 24 | The hospital environment might also be conducive to certain forms of suicide [ e.g. a high building ( Salmons 1984 ) , adjacent railway track ( Langley and Bayatti 1984 ) or river ] . |
| 25 | These are , first ( as I have mentioned in chapter 1 ) , a tendency to focus on patterns of change alone with little or no attention to stable patterns of language through time ; second , a tendency to unidimensionality , that is , an inclination to think of the history of a language as the history of a single homogeneous variety and of sound-changes as proceeding in straight lines ; and third , as noted in chapter 2 , a tendency to impose theoretical and ideological orthodoxies on ( sometimes rather sparse ) data that might often be open to alternative kinds of interpretation . |
| 26 | The repercussions of alienating another solicitor in this matter might well be serious on other occasions in practice when a favour or understanding is required . |
| 27 | Such a hebb-type modification might indeed be detectable by appropriate neurophysiological or biochemical measures . |
| 28 | He might then be open to bitter objections from many adults . |
| 29 | Albeit with differing electrical systems , these units were of similar external appearance and brought to the Southern Region for the first time ( other than on the Waterloo & City line and the experimental PEP unit ) sliding-door stock which might ultimately be suitable for one-person operation . |
| 30 | I 'll never be sarky about Young Doctors again . |