Example sentences of "[coord] it [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 2 | One thing that he did make very clear at the end was that if we thought of other things that he should know about , or it would be helpful for him to know about , we should contact him , so he 's left it very open for us to have an ongoing contact which I thought . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm thankful it was n't finished or it would be impossible to maintain with the small congregations we have . ’ |
| 4 | An assessor would be needed to be brought into the workplace at a cost , or it would be necessary to go to an assessor . |
| 5 | The position is : B , if he knows , or it would be obvious to a reasonable man , that the process was patented , has infringed the patent for the process . |
| 6 | C has infringed the patent for the process if he knows , or it would be obvious to a reasonable man , that the equipment he supplied was suitable for putting the process into effect and the equipment was intended to do so . |
| 7 | A really deep border makes a stunning finish to a little summer dress , a spotless white collar for a dark dress , or you could use the idea for a richly decorated yoke , the edge of a stole or shawl , or it would be lovely all round a simple triangle of plain knitting . |
| 8 | The analogizing of knowing to seeing may pervade the concrete experience of coming to know , in the mystic 's vision flooded with light ; or it may be explicit in parable , as in Plato 's of mankind misled by illusory appearance as prisoners in a cave who see only the shadows on the wall . |
| 9 | A large retail chain may want to expand and build more stores or it may be content with its current size since all the most profitable regions are covered . |
| 10 | He is stable and , all being well , will remain so for some considerable period of time.5 The motive for turning off the ventilator in this situation may be evil , or it may be good , as , for example , in the case of involuntary euthanasia intended to bring about an end to misery and suffering . |
| 11 | This can be either broad , with the full expression of human feeling common only to the Labour movement , or it may be narrow , niggardly and mean with only the objective of shirking responsibility , and never carrying out in the spirit of those laws work which could be applied to make the conditions of the working people easier , and the lives of their children brighter and better . |
| 12 | It may be appropriate to release supplementary information during this stage ( i.e. final audited accounts , latest management accounts and budgets ) or it may be preferable to delay this until phase II or III . |
| 13 | Technology itself may be up-to-date , chip-bound , computer-orientated ; or it may be simple , and concerned with skills of a less modern kind ( though they may be just as difficult to acquire ) . |
| 14 | Be prepared to demonstrate by telling a story yourself and playing it back , or it may be diplomatic to start by recording what the local people want , such as dance music or hymns or the local chief exhorting his people . |
| 15 | This may be due to the poor quality of the preaching or it may be due to the fact that some Christians have their own interpretation of the dominical saying , ‘ Except ye be as little children ye can not enter the kingdom of heaven ’ . |
| 16 | If some are negative and some positive , it may be possible to add a constant to make them all positive , or it may be necessary to consider treating the positive and negative numbers separately . |
| 17 | The right person may just happen to come along , or it may be necessary to take certain steps to help this happen . |
| 18 | Probably some degree of oddness is an inescapable penalty for calling an unestablished unit into service ; this abnormality may be very slight , as in A large novel fell on my head , or it may be considerable , as in I received a lot of kindness from him — would you like to try a bottle ? : |
| 19 | Growth may be inevitable or it may be fun . |
| 20 | The deal timetable may be rigid , as in the case of an auction style sale or it may be flexible . |
| 21 | It may be out of date and uninteresting or it may be sophisticated and supplemented by every kind of device and full of interest . |
| 22 | It may be pleasant or it may be unpleasant . |
| 23 | Such mixture of affective psychosis and schizophrenia may be revealed in changes in the symptom profile that are observed when the person is studied over a period of time , or it may be evident within a single episode of illness . |
| 24 | For some companies special offers are more difficult because their product may only be used by professions also , such as hairdressers , or it may be perishable and not suitable for selling through the post . |
| 25 | This may apply to a particular period or it may be concerned with changes over a long period of time . |
| 26 | The transmission may be simple , the shout ‘ You are standing on my foot ! ’ or a phone conversation , or it may be complicated , as in the example of this book , involving a variety of people who are employed in the publishing , printing , and bookselling businesses . |
| 27 | The ‘ Shantih ’ at the poem 's end may be simply a way of stopping , a ‘ formal ending ’ ; or it may be comparable to the exhausted collapse after the destruction at the end of ‘ Gerontion ’ ( Eliot considered ‘ Gerontion ’ as preface to The Waste Land ) . |
| 28 | It may appear as padding to a fixed size due to software limitations or it may be wasted space at the end of tracks and overflow areas because the record that should have gone there was too large . |
| 29 | This leaves a wide range of activities in an area of unregulated uncertainty , including telephone tapping ; this may be official , under Ministerial approval ‘ in the national interest ’ , which Parliament may be said to have condoned or sanctioned , or it may be unofficial in the interests of , say , commercial or industrial espionage , in which case an offence is committed , if only the misappropriation of electric current ! |
| 30 | They do not wish to provide further working capital by means of borrowing or it may be imprudent to do so . |