Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A puff it may be to the deposed kings of world rugby , but the Taiwanese are taking the training stint , which will be used as a build-up to September 's Asian tournament , in deadly earnest . |
| 2 | It acts to foster rather than hinder the material and non-material interests of most groups involved in the planning process , although it may be to the short term tactical advantage of some not to recognise the fact . |
| 3 | Tempting as it may be for the harassed mother to jump at the chance of sending her three year old to playschool every morning , imagine the devastating effect this can have when it coincides with the arrival in the home of a brand new baby . |
| 4 | If an abstract is included , it may be on a separate loose sheet and can be used to give in some detail the contents and argument of the report to those who do not require to read the whole text . |
| 5 | It may be on a one-to-one basis or with a couple where one partner has impaired hearing . |
| 6 | It may be a light aircraft twenty miles away , in which case they will go in their own cars , or it may be on the other side of the world , in which case they will be on the next airline flight in that direction and might not be home again for several weeks . |
| 7 | Orange or red nut feeders are especially attractive to siskins , but if there are squirrels around it may be worth the extra expense of a tough model such as the Gilbert squirrel-proof feeder , which has a nut basket surrounded by a mesh which will only allow the birds through . |
| 8 | Probably they would have had no application to W. , but even where they are applicable it may be in the long-term interests of the minor that if the same treatment can be secured upon some other basis , this shall be done . |
| 9 | Although the Chronicle for Cnut 's reign is evidently something of a patchwork , much of it may be from an early date . |
| 10 | This is what ‘ democratic socialism ’ ought to mean , however remote it may be from the present practices of the Labour Party in or out of office . |
| 11 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
| 12 | It was decided in the spring of 1892 to repair and rebuild the tower and as the Vicar in his letter puts it " To rebuild as an ornament to the village with a good clock in it , to make the fabric itself what it should be for a wealthy parish such as ours " . |
| 13 | It should then be for the official aircraft accident investigating authority to establish the cause of the accident and to make recommendations for avoiding similar accidents in the future , and it should be for the civil courts to decide who is liable to pay damages and to whom . |
| 14 | It should be on every binocular observer 's list . |
| 15 | I saw him move the mat so it should be on a slippery bit and then sort of pretend to slip on it , and then start to shout . ’ |
| 16 | That was not indexation but a recognition of the fact that , if an exemption is to be made , it should be at a sensible and workable level . |
| 17 | Maybe everything is n't the way it should be at the Regal Arms . |
| 18 | After this digression , it is now time to examine the way in which the curriculum , divided as it should be between the practical and the theoretical , is to be reflected in the school examination system . |
| 19 | The aims of higher education ( whether , for example , it should be about the disinterested pursuit of knowledge , or about training students for the graduate job market ) are confused . |
| 20 | It is a matter of total indifference to me , as it should be to the hon. Member for Swansea , East ( Mr. Anderson ) . |
| 21 | It was decided , first , that in actions brought by the Crown to enforce or protect its proprietary or contractual rights , it should be in no different position from the ordinary citizen and so should be required to give an undertaking in the usual way . |
| 22 | Does the Minister agree that , as Northern Ireland has the fewest days lost through stoppages or industrial action and is governed by the same industrial relations legislation as Great Britain , it should be in a special position to attract inward investment ? |
| 23 | The main consideration is that it should be in a sunny , sheltered position . |
| 24 | and so it 's very much as he was thinking and it should be in the old testament really cos it was written you know , before Jesus |
| 25 | a decision in detail as to where it should be in the short term ( one year ahead ) and a longer-term plan for about the next three to four years : |
| 26 | We disagree among ourselves about much , and that is as it should be in an open society . |
| 27 | Somewhere people are drumming — it must be at the far end of the village , because at times the rhythm is distinct but when the wind takes it it becomes muffled , merging with the roar of the full monsoon river . |
| 28 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 29 | The more the star has moved at the end of the Earth 's journey of 186 million miles , the closer it must be to the solar system . |
| 30 | If this man had another career it must be as a professional singer . |