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 . |