Example sentences of "[subord] it [modal v] be [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in most cases , the private person , even if not acting in the course of a business , is still really entering into a commercial transaction and it seems more likely that there will be more cases than in the first category where it will be reasonable that he accept some liability . |
| 2 | First , although it may be true that functional explanations of the kind he discusses remain incomplete until we understand the mechanisms which sustain them , they may nevertheless be explanatory . |
| 3 | And although it may be true that readers of Hot Press for example , are n't led by sexual ignorance into seeing man and woman only as adversaries , there also are those girls who are forced to go to England all the time for abortions and they ca n't be that far from the world I depict . |
| 4 | Yet although it may be true that many types and styles of kung fu began here , it can not be realistically argued that all the varieties of kung fu that were and are still practised in China have their roots in Shaolin . |
| 5 | However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection . |
| 6 | In most cases a single example of the relationships between the object and a given contextual domain has been selected for illustrative purposes , although it will be obvious that there is a vast number of alternative relevant instances . |
| 7 | Further , even if it may be true that characteristic adjectives are never barred from prenominal occurrence , there are certainly instances where occasion adjectives are ungrammatical in postnominal position , as in : ( 30 ) Eddy will present the cheque to the winner happy we have yet to overcome this obstacle immediate Thus , Bolinger 's distinction between " characteristic " use and " occasion " use is neither necessary nor sufficient for postnominal occurrence , even if it overlaps to an interesting extent with the difference in position of the adjective . |
| 8 | It is far better and essentially less embarrassing for such education to be given at school than within the family , even if it could be certain that parents would give it or that their children would listen . |
| 9 | The Building Employers Confederation wanted no exemptions , because it must be right that every employer should contribute investment to his employees . |
| 10 | And while it may be admirable that ministers take initiatives to disturb the bland continuity of civil service administration , there is a further , separate question of whether the policies injected by ministers are desirable . |
| 11 | And he says while it may be understandable that Channel 4 is reluctant to see so much of their dirty linen washed in public he argues that it is in the public interest that this should happen . |
| 12 | The incidence of bully/victim problems in schools within mainstream children has now been well-established ; however while it may be likely that children with special educational needs will be over-represented in such categories , there has been very little quantitative evidence on this point , or on which types of special needs children are most likely to be involved , in which way . |
| 13 | While it may be true that we Christians are living in our separate and little private worlds , this is not to say that nothing significant is happening . |
| 14 | While it may be true that , in speaking , children frequently express in words underlying conceptual distinctions , a number of researchers have suggested that the ability to use language to communicate needs , interests and desires to other people presupposes another , rather different , set of developmental abilities . |
| 15 | Firstly , while it may be true that individual clients can and do terminate contracts frequently , they do this to move from one company to another : every year each company loses existing but gains new customers . |
| 16 | While it may be true that the highest socioeconomic group uses nothing but Standard English , it is certainly not true that the lowest group uses only Creole , and that the middle classes are those who tend |
| 17 | The Americans are not rushing to welcome him , worrying lest the very presence of Mr Gorbachev might bounce the West into agreeing to an aid package before it could be sure that economic reform was locked into place . |
| 18 | If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's rude to try and understand what 's going on when it must be obvious that it 's none of your business . ’ |
| 20 | Next came the 1960s , perhaps the least Crusoe-like of the post-war decades , when a garnishing of foreign influences , like the fictional devices that decorate John Fowles 's The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , was sometimes felt to be a fashionable obligation , though it may be significant that Fowles 's novel remains deeply rooted in a realistic tradition . |
| 21 | This is so even though it might be true that any infant , regardless of race or family niche , can acquire the tongue of any community . |
| 22 | The whole poem , at this stage as was pointed out in the section on Wordsworth 's creed uses language ambiguously , though it must be obvious that he does believe in ‘ something out there ’ . |