Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [num ord] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After Mercury turns to direct motion on September 18th your days of wondering , waiting and worrying should at last be over . |
| 3 | The process of proletarianisation itself is a more complex issue than might at first be supposed . |
| 4 | Second , the actual cost , both in time and money , can be very much less than might at first be anticipated . |
| 5 | Compiling this listing has proved that there are more Japanese aircraft extant than might at first be envisaged . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This last is less of a restriction than might at first be supposed . |
| 10 | Both the monoamine oxidase inhibitors and the tricyclics were discovered empirically , but they aroused great hopes that the chemical disturbances in the brains of depressed people might at last be understood . |
| 11 | WITH the eradication of smallpox by WHO 's successful vaccination campaign , it may have seemed that vaccinia , the cowpox virus that is the basis for the vaccine and which gave vaccination its name , might at last be ready to bow out from its central role in world medicine . |
| 12 | From the Cairngorms through the Spey valley pinewoods round Abernethy and Rothiemurchus , out to Wester Ross and even the inner isles , so much wild country is changing hands — or at least changing status — that is has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures and of what the poet Thomas Grey called ‘ the pomp of power ’ , where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ' past follies and arrogance . |
| 13 | Bog asphodel and damselfly. ‘ … it has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures … where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ’ past follies and arrogance . ’ |
| 14 | On the other hand , even those who listened with loathing or contempt found it easier to have a real man with whom the sneering drawl could at last be identified . |
| 15 | Steel-Maitland could at last be moved from the Ministry of Labour , which had in many ways been the key departmental post of the administration , and in which he had throughout been ill-regarded but undisturbed . |
| 16 | It was nearing completion , and its completion embodied the hope of that now familiar wholeness so precious to its author : everything seemed to fit together , all experience could at last be integrated . |
| 17 | That it should be other than the great national forum for political debate and decision would at first be unthinkable . |
| 18 | I feel I shall at last be in the hands of someone who will bring me back to health , to life . |
| 19 | When the bandage is removed there will at first be no sign of this . |
| 20 | They will at first be assailed after meetings by colleagues saying ‘ Good for you ’ and ‘ I wish I 'd had the courage to say that ’ and ‘ That 's just what I think . |
| 21 | Most of the cost will at first be picked up at the federal level , but the BMFT will gradually reduce its share of financial support over the eight years . |
| 22 | Is it too much to hope that , in spite of the worst excesses of this year , Mozart will at last be allowed to grow up ? |
| 23 | Unpaid work will at last be recognised as valuable . |
| 24 | If they are , we will at last be able to see the countryside put back into countryside management . |
| 25 | ‘ Once this backbone is in place , there will at last be capacity to link people into it . |
| 26 | But with both in place , Russia will at last be able to make full use of the $13 billion in foreign help that has been promised . |
| 27 | From May the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía will at last be what its title implies , a national museum exhibiting a permanent collection of modern and contemporary works of art . |
| 28 | The book will at last be plainly evident for what it is : one option for the delivery of information among a range of possibilities , rather than the unquestionably natural platform . |
| 29 | When we have the answers , multimedia will at last be ready to deliver the revolution that electronic publishing has long been promising . |
| 30 | When Byrd 's songs have finally been recognized for what they are , there will at last be a recording of ‘ O dear life , when may be it be , sung to its complete text all eight stanzas of Sir Philip Sidney 's agonizingly erotic poem by five brave and talented singers who know exactly what they are doing . |