Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would therefore be ample time for them to deploy their mobile radiation monitoring teams , for the police to tour the area , knocking on doors and warning people living nearby , for the protective potassium iodate pills to be issued and for a decision to be made on whether the public should stay indoors until the cloud had passed — or evacuate to a safer place . |
| 2 | Throughout March and April the newspapers carried a plethora of stories suggesting either that there would be a further challenge to Mrs Thatcher when the next leadership election fell due in November , or that there would be strong pressure on her to announce her retirement before then . |
| 3 | It would be weak sentimentality for me to allow him such grace . |
| 4 | But if the police or the security services are perpetrating the illegal acts there may be little incentive for them to deal with such complaints seriously . |
| 5 | The Report failed to specify the conditions under which the past experience of the few might be safe ground on which to shape the future experience of every child and teacher in the country . |
| 6 | If you wish to become pregnant , or are in the early stages of pregnancy , there may be considerable pressure for you to have an HIV antibody test . |
| 7 | If that happens there will be enormous pressure on him to step down . |
| 8 | It would have been small consolation to him to know that later , on 22 August , she wrote : ‘ Odiously impertinent , insulting and boastful as the French have always been , one can not help feeling for them . ’ |
| 9 | In fact , he grunted something complimentary about it being dashed public-spirited of me to come back so soon . |
| 10 | A spokesman for the SAC said : ‘ It is normal practice for us to monitor our revenue clients on a regular basis and in particular to study their proposals under their four-year plan . |
| 11 | There is ample evidence on which to argue , following Wallis and others , that the NVALA 's campaigns should , in the first instance , be viewed as shot through with ‘ cultural fundamentalism ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ If you have reached a point in the career structure where there are few other women and where you are therefore extremely visible , there is tremendous pressure on you to keep going upwards . ’ |
| 13 | James Burns , chairman of the region 's child care subcommittee , said yesterday : ‘ Many young men , women and children with learning difficulties want to use our shared care scheme and there is tremendous potential for it to expand . |
| 14 | ‘ There is great potential for us to build on this foundation , a process we are just beginning . ’ |
| 15 | Fundamentally , the reason why it is good policy for us to try to explain biological phenomena in terms of gene advantage is that genes are replicators . |
| 16 | I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition . |
| 17 | Having pledged its support for the environment and the poor , there is mounting pressure for it to institutionalize some safeguards . |
| 18 | Established in 1978 , this group has grown rapidly , and there is considerable opportunity for you to gain management experience . |
| 19 | As soon as the investigating officer believes that a prosecution should be brought and there is sufficient evidence for it to succeed , questioning should cease . |
| 20 | As soon as a police officer who is making inquiries of any person about an offence believes that a prosecution should be brought against him and that there is sufficient evidence for it to succeed , he should ask the person if he has anything further to say . |
| 21 | If he considers an authority 's budget excessive — or , indeed , considers it an excessive increase on the previous year 's budget — that is sufficient reason for him to cap that authority . |
| 22 | Surely the ultimate prize of motivating and supporting a wide cross-section of the communities of Wales to care for their local environment in a practical way is sufficient incentive for us to get our collective acts together ? |
| 23 | Tom would n't wear rain gear because he could n't find a set to really fit his 6ft 3in frame , so it was hard work for me to keep him dry . |
| 24 | It was unusual company for her to keep in any event : delightful though Pamela Stephenson may be , her public image is not altogether regal , and Charles has always recognized the need to choose his friends , particularly those in showbusiness , with care . |
| 25 | At this time , it was great triumph for me to find that Rachel could bear her beloved Jacob no children . |
| 26 | There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern . |
| 27 | In the schools there was concerned doubt about what to do for best , whether to integrate or segregate , and in some quarters the hesitant activity seemed to be salvation through Art and Crafts . |
| 28 | Parliament refused , however , to endorse Mazowiecki 's acceptance of the resignation of Communications Minister Marek Kucharski , claiming that there was insufficient reason for him to resign . |
| 29 | On Tarvaras there were several subject races who spoke a variation of it — perhaps because they were descended from Second Empire colonists — and suddenly Alexei found that there was insufficient subtlety in it to convey precise nuance . |
| 30 | All this was precious time within which to advance the British nuclear programme . |