Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [modal v] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | High quality agricultural land is described as a ‘ a national resource for the longer term and should be in general protected from irreversible development ’ . |
| 2 | Day two will focus on the commercial implications of HCI and Usability and will be of particular interest to delegates from industry . |
| 3 | He is looking for a contact in each region who he can ring monthly to find out what 's happening in the Community Care field that would be of particular interest to the Voluntary sector e.g. contracts , consultations etc . |
| 4 | Obviously , sorting out the courses which are on offer can best be done by writing for the prospectus but with any application the question that will be of overriding importance is how you are going to finance your training . |
| 5 | They are also breaking the law and could be in serious trouble for that . |
| 6 | As for the doorstep survey , this was carried out in order to generalize about the speech of the city as a whole , and in this way to be able to describe modifications to the vernacular that might be of general import . |
| 7 | In this way the officer accepting the production can also prove the date of first registration if need be by personal appearance . |
| 8 | Maybe the " honest " working man would entrench himself in his own institutions and , in isolation , be a danger to the unity and strength of the whole nation ; and maybe prolonged intransigence , accompanied by inevitable police control , would break down the divide between the labouring classes and the " dangerous classes " so causing the popular forces to unite and assume a truly menacing character that would be beyond concessionary control . |
| 9 | Some companies ( particularly in the USA ) , in response to these and other factors , decided in the late 70s and early 80s that they should designate within their organisations a person or persons whose job would be to specialise in the acquisition and processing of information from the environment that might be of potential strategic importance . |
| 10 | Interesting work has been undertaken in Sweden by Braf ( 1984 ) relating to those aspects of the environment that can be of positive help to visually handicapped people . |
| 11 | The book is a storehouse of information that will be of lasting value to anyone involved in the design of filters , A-to-D conversion , convolution , Fourier and many other applications , with not a soldering iron in sight . |
| 12 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |