Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In addition , why the controlled group chooses to be compliant , or why it may choose to be resistant to any process of control , is also ignored .
2 It may pay to be early at Catford where Dromina Duke looks the part in the second race .
3 It may need to be tailor-made , and therefore it 's best left to the experts .
4 Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements .
5 It may prove to be restrictive unless used very flexibly .
6 In the average home sized aquarium it may prove to be necessary to isolate a particularly large specimen as the risk of losing other fish from predation and poor water quality will be high .
7 He advises that while the unit backs onto our store , as a self-contained unit , it should continue to be available for let on the open market .
8 There is every reason why it should continue to be pleasurable and satisfying for both husband and wife for the rest of their married life .
9 Returning now to our basic theory , we see that the extension of Freud 's monotraumatic theory of human social evolution to a polytraumatic one allows us to discern in human cultural evolution a pattern which , if it should prove to be real , may perhaps represent for the human sciences something like the revolution introduced into the physical sciences by Copernicus , Kepler and Galileo .
10 The relational perspective simply explores the social features of any knowledge process , regardless of any claims it might make to be independent of social determination .
11 He hoped — just hoped — it might prove to be conclusive .
12 It 'll 'ave to be good , so do n't come up with something like us all bein' knocked down by a herd of stampedin' giraffes . ’
13 then it 'll have to be dripped-dried
14 It 'll have to be dark .
15 I 'd like to put one simple note and I think it 'll have to be simple for him to understand it but I would like to put one simple notion to him and that is that there is great merit in having public services sharing by people from all social classes .
16 It 'll have to be green .
17 It 'll have to be brief , ’ George said dryly .
18 It is not perhaps surprising that Sir Walter Scott , with his antiquarian interest , should have had a sharp eye for architectural difference , or even for interior detail , provided it could claim to be antique .
19 It would appear to be due to the strength of these preferences that prime borrowers have frequently been able to raise funds more cheaply by making a eurosterling rather than a domestic issue .
20 Expressing such views requires courage because it would appear to be taboo to talk about protecting fee income .
21 It would appear to be similar in principle to electro-acupuncture .
22 For example , it would appear to be open to the senior officer to inform the organisers of the meeting in question that the numbers of the meeting are too great , and require the organisers of the meeting to assist the police in dispersing the mob .
23 And I take it it would have to be infrared .
24 It would have to be small .
25 It would have to be renewed as soon as the the nationalization was prepared to go , the government took over .
26 And after his heroics , Warne said : ‘ It would have to be close to the best I 've ever bowled .
27 Mother thought it was a liability , ie , it would have to be dry-cleaned , but I was twelve years old and had a Ph.D .
28 ‘ Of course , I would like to be asked to fight a marginal one day , but it would have to be local .
29 Well , obviously it would have to be different .
30 If B's claim , which , in substance , would be a claim that his right to a fair criminal trial under Article 6 had been violated , were to be ventilated before the Commission , it would have to be satisfied that domestic remedies had been exhausted .
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