Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That may be for technical reasons , or a matter of policy .
2 oh that 's , that must be for burning coke then
3 That must be of great concern to the yards which were not successful in the tendering process , whose problems will become similar to those that confronted Yarrow until this afternoon .
4 ‘ But that must be in huge quantities to make it worth their while .
5 This may be of pure sample , but more often it is diluted with a salt , usually KBr .
6 This may be of particular value to investors from Germany and Switzerland , where the tax-sparing provisions in the Portuguese double tax treaties may be used in conjunction with a Madeira tax-exempt company to reduce the financing costs in multinational groups .
7 This may be of particular benefit in paediatric liver diseases where the diagnosis of PSC may be made without resorting to invasive techniques .
8 This may be of considerable importance , for in the non-diabetic there are long-established relationships between lipid and lipoprotein levels and macrovascular disease ( Gordon et al , 1981 ; Miller et al , 1981 ) .
9 Erm , you can use ordinary spelling , you probably will use ordinary spelling , or phonetic transcription , this may be for short sections .
10 This may be through private study , distance learning or attendance at formal courses .
11 This may be through formal meetings and newsletters but it is likely to be done most effectively by talking to your son or daughter about his or her progress and following up these discussions with the school .
12 This may be through universal services which reduce social and economic risks in the community , or specific services aiming to improve the circumstances of vulnerable individuals and families .
13 This may be in live coverage , for news programmes , for special programmes reporting the proceedings of Parliament or for other documentary , current affairs or educational programmes .
14 This may be from chronic stress , where our stress tap drips constantly a small amount at a time for months or years , or from sudden stress , when we encounter a specific fear , problem or major life event , which causes the stress tap to turn full on .
15 These priorities imply , on the domestic front , the attempt to maintain a continuing powerful role for the state , the economic dominance of a fairly small elite and an indifference to the welfare of rural peasant farmers , complicated as this may be by political loyalties to certain tribal groups .
16 This may be by direct knockdown or by severing the opponents ' kiteline .
17 This should be in sufficient detail for precise identification .
18 This must be in close contact with the tank
19 This might be for disciplinary reasons or for redundancies arising from , perhaps , reduced staffing needs or curricular changes .
20 Erm what , what I said to you earlier was that er at the very beginning where you could help me was if , if you found this of value to you , this service that I 've just provided , erm perhaps you could erm th there might be er some friends of yours that er you might find that this might be of beneficial to .
21 Moreover , a secretary attached to a legation or an embassy and not to an individual minister or ambassador , and remaining at his post over a fairly long period , could become a valuable source of information about local conditions : this might be of great help to a new head of mission coming to a strange country of which he knew little .
22 This might be by parental design or due to natural events .
23 This could be by employing techniques such as ‘ auric control ’ , ‘ nature attunement ’ , or simply by taking a shower and a dose of Dr Bach 's Rescue Remedy ( see page 121 ) .
24 But this would be of limited value to the defendant , since any costs recovered by the defendant would be subject to a charge in favour of the board under section 16 of the Act and the operation of regulation 103 of the Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 , the detail of which I need not examine , and would have the effect in this case that the defendant would in fact recover only a very small proportion of the costs he actually incurred .
25 This would be of great educational value to new members giving tips and ways of how other embalmers around the country practice their work .
26 This would be of obvious benefit to the spider , whose web would last longer , but it would also help the bird to avoid getting dirtied by sticky spider silk .
27 But this would be to little avail if the ground were waterlogged or so acid as to prevent the normal action of soil life .
28 One way to determine this would be to old an ordinary ruler at arms length and note how many millimetres the width of an object appears to occupy .
29 At the last moment , when the barred window was already darkened , and the echoes from the outer ward grown scattered and few , Harry suffered an agony of fear that after all this would be like other nights , that Isambard would come with his taunting smile and his small , shrewd ironies that stabbed like knives ; but instead came young Thomas Blount , true to his word , with his tilted nose and his provocative swagger , and flung open the door of the room with a flourish .
30 ( There will be additional illumination to provide the wavelengths necessary for photosynthesis and this will be at other angles , but the infra-red source will be alongside the sensor ) .
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