Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [conj] it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disadvantages said to be attendant upon a duty to provide reasons are that it can stifle the exercise of discretion and overburden the administration . |
| 2 | The power of a NFP structure that can successfully be transferred across borders is that it can begin to divorce the firm 's performance from national factors and thus reinforce the advantages of global scope . |
| 3 | The alternatives are that it should promote competition , per se , or that it should operate with fairly broadly defined public interest criteria . |
| 4 | Although this is unlikely to happen this year , the astrological pointers are that it will occur before the end of l993 . |
| 5 | However successful British Coal is in the future in building on its outstanding success in recent years and improving productivity , one of its basic problems is that it can sell only coal . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , this was the route that France chose to follow as an answer to American pressure , since one of the underlying assumptions was that it would preclude a distinct German army under a separate German command . |
| 7 | More likely in statistical terms is that it will close down even earlier due to judicious coaches ' or managers ' recommendations on the inadequacy of the majority of aspirants ‘ to make the grade ’ . |
| 8 | It was previously suggested that one reason attention focusing might actually impair recognition of non-risky junctions is that it would prevent subjects from attending to useful peripheral information . |
| 9 | Apart from issues of principle , perhaps the major practical objection put forward against charges is that it would lead to an increase in evasion ; the incentive to undertake development without applying for planning permission would rise in line with the rate of charge ( particularly for ‘ householder ’ types of development ) . |
| 10 | All the indications are that it will increase , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The obvious difficulty of having the same method of election for both Houses is that it would tend to produce a mirror image and devalue the House of Lords as a check . |
| 12 | She is in the grip of infatuation and … the odds are that it will lead precisely nowhere ; that they — and more probably he — will call the whole thing off . |
| 13 | If Robson Rhodes had not decided to make fundamental changes in its operating style five years ago , the chances are that it would have long since been swallowed up by one of its rivals . |
| 14 | One of the Packman 's most important claims is that it can handle all types and sizes of chemical pack . |
| 15 | Rumours are that it may reappear somewhere else , perhaps Basingstoke , but who knows ? |
| 16 | On the other hand , rumours are that it may launch a computing supplement under the Budapest Week name . |
| 17 | Buckhaven manufactures intermediates for a pharmaceutical industry largely unaffected by the recession and the belief within Courtaulds Chemicals is that it can continue to develop rapidly . |