Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after it is decided that company collection agencies are unsuitable for the job should outside agencies be contracted to fill in the gaps . |
| 2 | The temptation to ‘ fiddle ’ quotas or interviews is always present , and for an interviewer who is not getting interviews this temptation must at times be great . |
| 3 | Mall operators argue that the Sally Army must be banned , or the precedent would allow a flood of other charitable panhandlers to invade their territory , and solicit a little of the money which should by rights be the monopoly of the retailers . |
| 4 | It is a story in which the case of Primo Levi , that of a dissident , gifted , magical , mustardly Jew , might at moments be thought to be implicated . |
| 5 | The play taking place in the Home Corner might at times be imaginative , and at other times imitative . |
| 6 | And there were others less distinguished , perhaps , but whose lively presence made any visit memorable ; for instance , Mr Wilkinson , valet-butler to Mr John Campbell , with his well-known repertoire of impersonations of prominent gentlemen ; Mr Davidson from Easterly House , whose passion in debating a point could at times be as alarming to a stranger as his simple kindness at all other times was endearing ; Mr Herman , valet to Mr John Henry peters , whose extreme views no one could listen to passively , but whose distinctive belly-laugh and Yorkshire charm made him impossible to dislike . |
| 7 | Although the land tax assessment could at times be stretched to include houses , windows , servants , hair powder , non-working horses , carriages and playing cards , and although in times of war the 10 per cent peacetime limit was pushed twice as far , there was no fundamental revaluation and in many parts of the country assessment levels were nominal . |
| 8 | A valuation may on occasions be necessary because of the interaction of holdover relief and other capital gains tax reliefs . |
| 9 | In other words , structures like that shown in 5.3(a) may on occasions be felt by speakers to be ‘ correct ’ . |
| 10 | There may on occasions be sound educational reasons for adopting a style of interaction in which unfocused questions predominate . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) Very difficult matters may on occasions be referred to the full Panel without a ruling first from the executive . |
| 12 | Um nevertheless er there 's a fundamental distinction made by most authors that to include children , to include apparently emotionally immature people , in sexual relationships as you would with adults is is fundamentally abusive . |
| 13 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 14 | The restless shifting tides of the US computer industry ensure that people may at times be down , but few are out for long , and out of the gathering gloom of the Everex Systems Inc Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings has sprung a new company , also in Fremont , California , raring to make its mark . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it may at points be untrustworthy . |
| 16 | Although these sorts of depreciatory arrangements can not be used to create allowable losses in the hands of the vendor company ( s 176 TCGA ) , they can within limits be used to reduce the vendor 's chargeable gain without the vendor 's having to realise the assets and business which may have a very low historical value . |
| 17 | This is work which requires an emotional coldness but which can on occasions be so demanding that detachment is difficult to maintain . |
| 18 | Two such distinct behaviours can at times be observed , either by the participant himself or by an outside observer . |
| 19 | Neither is it always wet ; again , the forests of Queensland can at times be very dry ( and the tops — the canopy — where the leaves are held in the sun all day , must endure conditions that would stress a cactus ) . |
| 20 | The excitement of that particular visualizing can at times be intense and I now no longer miss the arrow storms . |
| 21 | In many marriages the commitment to children can at times be in conflict with the earlier commitment to the partner . |
| 22 | ‘ Anne can at times be wilful , self-centred , headstrong — she is a true Mowbray ! |
| 23 | The strong personal ties of affection and responsibility which bind families are intrinsically valuable , meeting basic needs for security and identity , but can at times be claustrophobic and destructive . |
| 24 | In the massively reproductive social orders of the feudal and medieval periods these elements are still evident , and can at times be clearly perceived as asymmetries of a class kind . |
| 25 | ( 1987 ) point out that stock market prices can at times be dependent on the increase in profits derived from the contribution holiday , which could at times increase volatility , and lead to inefficient pricing of shares . |