Example sentences of "[adj] this [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , I take it , Chairman , that that this would be through our ideas about the |
| 2 | note : The question has been set up so that there is a situation where the current liabilities exceed the current assets in order to allow an explanation of how dangerous this can be in terms of risk . |
| 3 | Lammert is also keen to shorten the stay of each student at university , but is aware of how difficult and unpopular this would be in a time of high unemployment . |
| 4 | Something in all this might be for him . |
| 5 | All this may be for the locals , but in Cologne you 'll find the welcome extended to visitors is as warm as a schnapps downed in one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is also very difficult to say how successful this would be within the current recognition system . |
| 8 | The court has no power to order a medical or psychiatric examination of a parent no matter how relevant this may be to the proceedings . |
| 9 | However true this may be for the economic development of the United States — and even there such contentious hypotheticals are highly dubious — it certainly can not hold good for European expansion and supremacy in the later nineteenth century . |