Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] be [adj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The competition authorities should concern themselves with firms ' conduct only when there is reason to believe that competition is absent ( or would be absent were the conduct permitted ) . |
| 2 | One of the factors that may be protective is calcium , but the epidemiological data are contentious . |
| 3 | Any room and meal supplements that may be applicable are payable in full . |
| 4 | We opened with the simile of a wobbling jelly ; another parallel that may be helpful is the relationship between a shadow and its origin . |
| 5 | Another approach that may be useful is a hybrid method . |
| 6 | He meant to look forbidding , but found it difficult when eyes that should be glaring were shut . |
| 7 | Council staff provided an estimate of the gap between rates payable in Scotland in 1990/91 and the rates that would be payable were the same system in place as is in England ( The Uniform Business Rate ) . |
| 8 | Although at one point Lear is willing to return to Goneril , since she seems to be allowing him fifty knights , Regan only twenty-five , so that ‘ Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty , /And thou art twice her love ’ ( II.iv.260ff. ) — a quantification of love that would be comic were its effects not so awful — Lear becomes enraged by the two of them , and prefers ‘ To wage against the enmity o ’ th' air' than live with them . |
| 9 | For more than a week , a group of grey-suited former communists has played with the nation 's future with an irresponsibility and spite that would be risible were it not so dangerous . |
| 10 | This extends itself to winters very often — the types of winters that can be available are obviously very attractive , not just to professional cricketers , I mean , but to the vast majority of the population . |
| 11 | And if you go up from Bristol on from here you go up the motorway to Bristol and then you go along the M four to London well north of Bristol , up where the River Severn gets quite narrow and can be bridged is a city called Gloucester and Cheltenham is just inland from Gloucester . |