Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may appear to be easier , but it is not always wisest , especially for the novice who has never kept large cichlids before . |
| 2 | But this may prove to be one of the final fence cutting protests at Upper Heyford . |
| 3 | To the many BMJ readers who never submit a paper this may seem to be limited accountability , but the time that editors take to make decisions on publication is critical to authors . |
| 4 | You few must seem to be many . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ This could prove to be one of the key issues as Europe attempts to move into stages two and three of EMU ’ , he said . |
| 6 | And though many knew him , few could claim to be close to the peaceful , white-haired old man . |
| 7 | ( In the penal field , this would appear to be true of the Home Office which has been largely successful over the years in getting its strategy of ‘ penological pragmatism ’ implemented : see Chapters 1 and 10 ; Bottoms , 1990a ; and Fitzgerald and Sim , 1990 . ) |
| 8 | This would appear to be paradoxical — yet it was so . |
| 9 | This would appear to be unique to man . |
| 10 | This would seem to be one of the few events that had any lasting emotional effect on him . |
| 11 | All the oligopoly models just discussed are examples of non-co-operative games , and in the light of the antitrust laws in most advanced industrial countries this would seem to be appropriate . |
| 12 | And with the millions of insects buzzing , crawling , flying and swimming about , all needing to communicate with their own kind and with other associated species , but not with the millions of other creatures , this would seem to be essential to avoid confusion . |
| 13 | This would have to be convenient for London , where most of the participants lived , and , in view of the unorthodox nature of the enterprise , preferably in private ownership . |
| 14 | As to the possibility of the crew shooting some extra footage whilst at the museum , I am afraid this would have to be dependent on the time taken for the shots we plan for use in our Project Video . |
| 15 | The Lord chancellor 's proposals , contained in Regulations due to come into effect on 12th April , would potentially affect about 12–14 million adults : some would cease to be eligible for legal aid ; some would have to pay much more than at present ; and some would be required to pay a contribution for the first time . |
| 16 | To some all this will appear to be petty , intrusive and narrow-minded along the lines of ‘ What right had they to … ’ ; to others it will appear an example of the chapel 's commitment to their beliefs . |
| 17 | ‘ I could play games , but I 've got to catch that vote so this will have to be quick . |
| 18 | This will prove to be true , not only in considering the authors individually , but also in demonstrating some common patterns of behaviour , personality , and creative expression among writers subject to pathological mental states . |
| 19 | Good news for us but bad for them and that 'll have to be all for today , we 've been answering some of the queries that have reached us by post . |
| 20 | And there 's the question of how much of it is to be real life , for those in it , and how much will have to be some kind of fiction , or simulation , where the risks are too great or the technologies not yet available . |
| 21 | Ethernet was n't the first LAN standard , but it was the first that could claim to be non-proprietary ( many vendors sell Ethernet-compatible adaptors ) , cheap ( thanks to its use of readily available , low-cost cabling — telephone-wire twisted pair or TV-aerial co-ax ) , and flexible ( Ethernet is equally at home with small starter systems and huge network layouts ) . |
| 22 | Whereas these may appear to be easy to recognize in theory , in practice it can be difficult to determine whether a sediment is grain supported or matrix supported in a hand specimen , but particularly when seen in two dimensions within a thin section ( e.g. Fig. 5.2d ) . |
| 23 | Any of these may need to be present or indicated when students process discourse or are asked to produce it . |
| 24 | In fact , one of the major drawbacks with signature models is that the buyer unwittingly inherits all of the idiosyncrasies of the original player 's design and , in a few instances , these could prove to be incompatible with his or her own style of playing . |
| 25 | Thus they decided that : the number of governors on the school 's policy-making group , the management board , should be increased by three ; the right of governors to attend the meetings of all other groups in the school 's internal consultative structure would be formalised ; the governors would continue to establish task groups and working parties of their own and these would continue to be open to all teachers . |
| 26 | These would have to be stringent enough to ensure that the country 's borrowing did not put pressure on national or Community interest rates . |
| 27 | As current legislation takes effect these will continue to be important elements but the style of presentation of the report can be expected to change as the governors receive greater control over school based resources and the power to make more executive decisions . |
| 28 | Bean , writing a year later in 1984 , supported this view by saying that ‘ when the adopted child is an older child who has already acquired a cultural background and a set of cultural responses , these will have to be unlearned if he or she is to acquire a new cultural identity ’ . |
| 29 | You must also remember to press some of the other parts of the roses , such as the sepals and perhaps even the centres , as these will prove to be useful later on when you come to reassemble them into a design . |
| 30 | As you will know stainless is certainly the best material to use for trowels or diggers , but these can tend to be pricey . |