Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roses can be grown almost anywhere , so few gardens should be without these beautiful and flexible plants |
| 2 | To assist the debate many local Law Societies , notably Birmingham and Manchester , have agreed with the local county court what the appropriate rate of charge should be for any particular area , for any particular year , and the courts apply those rates . |
| 3 | I do not think that we should be against such moral principles . |
| 4 | As for the second , we have undermined its apparent logic by approaching from the opposite direction ; what is self-evident is that a person should prefer his reaction in fullest awareness , what would require proof is a claim that the awareness should be from all spatial and temporal but only one personal viewpoint . |
| 5 | This would make a tempting combination , but that does not mean Paddy Ashdown should be in any great hurry to accept it . |
| 6 | An important role will be deciding what a fair rate of return for the academics should be in any given project . |
| 7 | Instead , I will simply buy more film and , encouraged as any amateur should be by this well-presented book , I will get back to grovelling on my knees in the Oxfordshire hedgerows . |
| 8 | He must be inside that tarted-up colony camp . |
| 9 | I shall then draw on my own experience to explore which of these two approaches seems to offer the best way forward , and consider what the implications might be for any future evaluation . |
| 10 | ‘ Where the person applying for leave to make an application for a section 8 order is not the child concerned , the court shall , in deciding whether or not to grant leave , have particular regard to — ( a ) the nature of the proposed application for the section 8 order ; ( b ) the applicant 's connection with the child ; ( c ) any risk there might be of that proposed application disrupting the child 's life to such an extent that he would be harmed by it ; and ( d ) where the child is being looked after by a local authority — ( i ) the authority 's plans for the child 's future ; and ( ii ) the wishes and feelings of the child 's parents . |
| 11 | She might be with that red-headed yob . |
| 12 | It might be with these frightening possibilities already in mind that Darwin wished to establish the credibility of these new Galapagos species by publishing an illustrated work on them — before he entered upon the exposition of his theories of evolution . |
| 13 | Conversation analysis , which is sometimes regarded as distinct from discourse analysis ( Levinson 1983:286 ) , is a branch of study which sets out to discover what order there might be in this apparent chaos . |
| 14 | I do n't think he 'll be in any fit condition to do it every morning anyway . |
| 15 | She had n't imagined that this woman could be at all assertive , but she was being exactly that now , and Alain had so far said nothing at all . |
| 16 | In fact how am I to know you did n't do all this just so we could be in this very position now ? ’ |
| 17 | Much of what 's on show could be from any English village . |
| 18 | If I ever got busted I 'd be in such fucking shit . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't think they 'd be in any real danger as long as you lock up securely . |
| 20 | Another pint and you 'd be like those young lads all falling over themselves to make an impression . |
| 21 | This does not in itself mean that the analysis is invalid , and some of the deficiencies may be of little quantitative significance . |
| 22 | Audit is an ex post event and improvements in this important function may be of little long-term value if they are not coupled with more general reforms of the accountability of government . |
| 23 | In that the directors are often likely to be better disposed to the workforce than are the shareholders this may be of some practical importance . |
| 24 | For example , the two charges may be of some atomic distance ( of the order of 10 -10 m ) apart , whereas we are interested in their effect at macroscopic distances ; or take the so-called dipole aerial where the assumed separation of charges is small in comparison with the wavelength of oscillation . |
| 25 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 26 | But the reader should not forget that , even in those societies where kinship language is all-pervading , the bonds of kinship may be of several different kinds . |
| 27 | NEDs may not be independent at all , as their appointment may be for some personal reason or because of existing business connections . |
| 28 | The latter may be in many small chunks of time adding up to a large commitment , or it may be a single large time requirement . |
| 29 | However , there are 20 pieces ( eight corners and 12 edges ) to restore and a piece may be in many different positions with respect to its home position , so such a method will involve solving many subproblems ( 239 to be exact ) and this is not a very human strategy , though it is perhaps the easiest for a computer . |
| 30 | Apart from medicines , there are many other potentially dangerous chemicals , solid or liquid , which may be in any ordinary home : for example , substances for cleaning and decorating , and killing weeds and rodents . |