Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In English and sociology , the majority of lecturers may be male , but the majority of students are female . |
| 2 | Counsel for the debtor was conscious of the problem and uneasy that the absence of reasons might be prejudicial to her client 's case . |
| 3 | The determination of the costs of products will be useful in predicting the future ( budgeted ) costs of these products in the planning process . |
| 4 | Any attempt to introduce the sponsor 's range of products must be low key . |
| 5 | There was a case for the introduction of much more systematic and thorough random checks : these might detect or deter wrongdoers , although the vast majority of solicitors would be unlikely to risk their livelihoods for trifling amounts ; ‘ more importantly they would … allay public concern and official suspicion about improper use of the green form scheme . ’ |
| 6 | Contact also with organisations for the assistance of widows can be useful to some women , and one of these , CRUSE , which has already been mentioned , runs groups and an excellent counselling service . |
| 7 | The estimation of intakes can be peculiar . |
| 8 | The restructuring borrower may have to go to the bank for more money to pay out other creditors , but these pay-outs themselves could be preferences , and thereby voidable , so selective payment of creditors can be dangerous . |
| 9 | A limited number of adaptors may be available on request . |
| 10 | Organisers are confident that the final number of riders will be double last year 's total . |
| 11 | Volume shipments will begin in late April , and Unix versions of Notes will be available in client and server implementations in the second half of 1993 for Solaris , AIX , HP-UX and Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix . |
| 12 | Volume shipments will begin in late April , and Unix versions of Notes will be available in client and server implementations in the second half of 1993 for Solaris , AIX , HP-UX and Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix . |
| 13 | Now , a number of notes will be common to two adjacent chords . |
| 14 | While the mobilisation of large numbers of pickets may be advantageous to the union 's cause , it also invites problems of disorganisation and indiscipline . |
| 15 | However , an assembly of spherulites would be acceptable , since it would contain sufficient to make it entirely typical of the bulk and because such an assembly would have moduli independent of the surface tractions and displacements . |
| 16 | While any set of projections will be subject to some error for these sorts of reasons , the official household projections produced by the Department of Environment have provided a generally satisfactory framework for consideration of likely future trends in household composition . |
| 17 | Nor is it possible to say what percentage of cases might be attributable to food , because nobody has even attempted to find out . |
| 18 | Too much emphasis on the search for the ratio decidendi of cases can be misleading . |
| 19 | Infection of the fallopian tubes must remain the most important cause of infertility today , although only a minority of cases will be due to gonorrhoea . |
| 20 | Answer guide : Fixed costs in the majority of cases will be unavoidable ; that is they will be incurred whether or not an opportunity is accepted or rejected . |
| 21 | In some of the applied sciences the number of hours may be considerable while in an Arts course the formal teaching periods may be relatively few . |
| 22 | The size of groups can be difficult to measure , because dolphins apparently travelling separately may in fact be part of a widely spread group in acoustic communication with each other . |
| 23 | Those who find walking the pavements a hairy-scary experience at the best of times will be interested to hear that Durham constabulary now advocates cycling there , too . |
| 24 | Several share KPMG 's view that ‘ the responsibility paragraphs more logically belong outside the report ’ and that ‘ if an uncertainty is properly disclosed in the accounts , such accounts can present a true and fair view without the auditors having to refer to it … a set of accounts should be complete in itself , without having to read the audit opinion ’ . |
| 25 | Given that these change over time , the dominance of the industry by a certain nationality of institutions may be transitory . |
| 26 | In this sense it intends to foster the idea that the internal organisation of institutions should be open and democratic . |
| 27 | Redundancies will take place across the company 's 1,300 workforce but Granada insists ‘ quality of programmes will be unaffected ’ . |
| 28 | The persuasive Lawrence convinced Kernaghan a change of clubs would be good for him . |
| 29 | Since to present all subjects in the literature would generate very lengthy schedules , the listing of subjects must be selective . |
| 30 | Since the enumeration of all subjects generates excessively long schedules , in practice the listing of subjects must be selective ( even if relatively long schedules are acceptable ) . |