Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [adj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cross-addictions may be hotly denied because the subject matter may for some be too close for comfort . |
| 2 | I could-perhaps should — go back to Ken Hurren tomorrow morning and tell him that there may after all be some question of security involved . |
| 3 | It must above all be clear that perestroika was taking place under the auspices of the CPSU and that it would be conducted within the framework of socialism . |
| 4 | Now accounting must above all be useful . |
| 5 | The larger a programme 's audience or a paper 's readership , the more likely it seems that the content must in general be enjoyed , else why the large audience ? |
| 6 | Stylistics as a branch of literary studies can draw on this kind of work , but its concerns must in general be very different , because from a literary point of view the linguistic form of texts is of interest only in certain respects . |
| 7 | In a search of part , the land searched against must in general be defined by a plan unless the seller has lodged an officially approved plan of his or her development in the Registry : see official form of search ( Form 94B ) . |
| 8 | The meeting also decided that the international francophone television channel , TV 5 , should from 1992 be broadcast to Africa for one hour a day . |
| 9 | The independent Law Commission has recommended that a commercial tenant should in general be freed from any future liability under a lease when he assigns away his interest under it . |
| 10 | Indeed it was the accepted orthodoxy that battles should in general be avoided as too risky and that skill in manoeuvre was the real criterion of ability in a commander . |
| 11 | Old deeds can be very useful for such a purpose , and certainly any containing plans should in general be retained . |
| 12 | The IFM says an angling test should at first be voluntary but perhaps become compulsory in the future with anglers losing their licence for breaking a code of practice . |
| 13 | After Mercury turns to direct motion on September 18th your days of wondering , waiting and worrying should at last be over . |
| 14 | She pushed the Valium aside , observing that she did prefer not to take drugs , a reaction so typical of her age and class that McLeish decided he might after all be able to conduct a useful interview . |
| 15 | The euphoria of the summer gradually gave way to the pessimistic feeling that it might after all be a long war . |
| 16 | A lanky cleric oozing good intentions and bad faith then launched into an address that was squirmingly anxious to avoid giving offence to persons of any or no belief while still suggesting that , who knows , there might after all be , you know , something out there . |
| 17 | The removal of the tumour made no difference to my legs , so thinking the misplaced disc might after all be the cause , they decided to have a go at that . |
| 18 | It is less evident that such a strategy would appeal to the daughter of a tradesman , who might after all be able to serve in her father 's shop , or to the daughter of a white-collar worker , to whom the printing trade might appear to be a step down in the world in some respects : inky and dirty , even if requiring literacy . |
| 19 | When he felt that one might after all be no good he said so . ’ |
| 20 | Great pouring swathes of golden light , and the far-off glint of blue and silver , as if there might after all be something solid and man-made within the Prison . |
| 21 | Hardly had the King reached Balmoral on the Saturday morning when the Prime Minister sent a message that it might after all be necessary for him to return to London . |
| 22 | I 'll with that is it on ? |
| 23 | Mrs. Proudie makes an immediate impression when introduced to Mr. Harding and Dr. Grantly because when they are shown into the new bishop 's study , they see Dr. Proudie , Mr. Slope and also , to their surprise , Mrs. Proudie ‘ an innovation for which a precedent might in vain be sought in all the annals of the Barchester bishopric ! ’ |
| 24 | The process of proletarianisation itself is a more complex issue than might at first be supposed . |
| 25 | Second , the actual cost , both in time and money , can be very much less than might at first be anticipated . |
| 26 | Compiling this listing has proved that there are more Japanese aircraft extant than might at first be envisaged . |
| 27 | This structure is not , as might at first be imagined , derived from a fantasy of power relations modelled on a medieval joust but from the phenomenological account of the constitution of knowledge that works according to the structure of a subject perceiving an object , a same/other dialectic in which the other is first constituted by the same through its negation as other before being incorporated within it . |
| 28 | It follows that the contrast between them and Schoenberg 's setting of Dehmel , Schlaf ( Op. 2 ) and Stefan George ( Op. 15 ) is not as great as might at first be thought . |
| 29 | The Birmingham School approach examines spoken discourse , seeking to interpret it in terms of a rank structure and showing that when it is analysed after the event , there is more order and form in it than might at first be apparent . |
| 30 | This last is less of a restriction than might at first be supposed . |