Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the two essential components for a policy of nuclear deterrence are that one possesses the capability and that a potential enemy does not doubt one 's willingness to use it in order to defend oneself ? |
| 2 | Feelings within the BBC are that somebody has to go and that the 69-year-old Mr Hussey is likely to be the one . |
| 3 | If you ca n't find these three files then the chances are that someone has deleted then to save space . |
| 4 | Well there might have been that nobody knew about , I do n't know . |
| 5 | It could have been that someone forced him down , and held his face under . |
| 6 | Now if you 're if somebody becomes a persistent discounter first of all they 'll they 'll question it back at head office . |
| 7 | Even Tom Fearon , who ought to know how good a rider Harriet had been if anyone did , had said wonderingly and without the slightest intention of double-entendre , ‘ Harriet had a first-class seat . |
| 8 | There was the slightest suspicion of something behind her , up in the cockpit : a whisper of movement — not even that : a sort of parenthesis in the silence where a whisper would have been if anything had made one . |
| 9 | And Sierra 's are if something jerks it cuts the fuel line dun n it ? |
| 10 | It might be added that when text is input for phonological analysis these problems are if anything magnified , and for these purely practical reasons it was possible in , for example , the Belfast project , to use computers only in a very limited way for text processing ( as opposed to computation , where various statistical packages were extensively used ) . |
| 11 | I ca n't remember what their names are but somebody tells me they 're are the most extraordinarily noisy family . |
| 12 | If there is no improvement , discuss the situation with the doctor , and consider trying another type of ‘ milk-free ’ formula — it may be that one works for your baby while another does not . |
| 13 | The true position seems to be that something done or promised before the promise sued on is not by itself treated as a sufficient reason for the enforcement of the promise . ’ |
| 14 | And somewhere in there it may be that something 's got to give perhaps . |
| 15 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 16 | Could it be that someone had an interest in keeping it alive ? |
| 17 | It could well be that someone has tried to make this look like murder followed by suicide . ’ |
| 18 | Just think how much of a better place school would be if EVERYONE loved the Jesus way ! |
| 19 | And I suppose may be it 's may be if somebody got that , that 's why I say if you have to buy the property first . |
| 20 | How misleading such changes can be unless one keeps up to date ! |
| 21 | If you get a correlation between two variables it may be because one causes the other , or directly influences it , or it may be that it 's just cha it 's just a chance fluctuation and the two have occurred together , or it may be a combination of the two . |
| 22 | If the school BCG programme is suspended will it be because everyone has received a somewhat different , recombinant form thirteen years earlier ? |
| 23 | You know what can be done elsewhere and how we can best utilize existing staff , it may well be as somebody has said , that I mean we 've got Rachel there , just to pick on one post , where you 're , cos it 's one I happen to know what 's she , what 's she supposed to be doing . |
| 24 | Its suffering would be as nothing compared to what he had in mind for Bernice . |
| 25 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 26 | The Minister 's announcement — which again I welcome without qualification — comes six years after the Audit Commission 's report on care in the community , which in paragraph 28 highlighted the fact that then , six years ago , there were 37,000 fewer mentally ill and mentally handicapped patients than there were 10 years ago but that nobody knew where those who had been discharged were because nobody had done anything to find out what had happened to them . |
| 27 | Whatever reservations they had about dealing with me were as nothing compared to the reservations they had about dealing with each other . |
| 28 | A good many people suffered minor injuries in consequence ; but I believe those who suffered injuries were as nothing compared to those who wished to sustain an honourable contusion or bruise , or who , to make the whole setting more dramatic , lay on the ground as if laid out for dead without any injury at all . |
| 29 | Yet they were as nothing compared to the eighty-eight major rings that clustered near the apex of the dome . |
| 30 | What we will say , if we keep clearly in mind that everything might have been the same up to the instant when the bar came out , and no bar might have come out is that nothing caused the bar to come out . |