Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the client proposes an asking price which appears even after investigation to be unrealistic or unreasonable , it may be preferable to withdraw from the engagement . |
| 2 | If a client proposes an asking price which appears unrealistic or unreasonable , it may be preferable to withdraw from the engagement rather than to be involved in protracted negotiations which are likely to have little prospect of success . |
| 3 | It would be awful to work in a place where everyone was miserable . |
| 4 | The texts should be practicable to administer in the classroom context , and to mark and moderate . |
| 5 | In fact , if it were n't for the big blue logo and Oli Frey pic on the cover , there 'd be little to indicate to an early reader that this was indeed the same mag ! |
| 6 | He continued : ‘ In the absence of a claim to a defined privilege as to the validity of which your Lordships could make a determination , it would not in my view be right to withhold from the taxpayers a decision to which , in law , they are entitled . ’ |
| 7 | In the absence of a claim to a defined privilege as to the validity of which your Lordships could make a determination , it would not in my view be right to withhold from the taxpayers a decision to which , in law , they are entitled . |
| 8 | Home Secretary , Kenneth Baker has said he does not now believe it would be right to continue with the proposed closures because of the entirely unacceptable numbers of prisoners held in police cells . |
| 9 | Would it be right to conclude from the Prime Minister 's remarks about the limitations on deficits that he completely rejects the 3 per cent . |
| 10 | The empirical evidence may destroy the reformative aim as a plausible general justification of the penal system , but reform remains a reductivist aim which it may well be right to pursue within a penal system . |
| 11 | It ca n't be right to cry through the night . |
| 12 | Many will be sorry to hear of the death at home of Terence Goldsmith , former publishing director of Blandford Press , on 16th December . |
| 13 | It presumes that the meaning to be ascribed to any of the elements which comprise the X factor is to be that determined by the reviewing court in preference to that decided on by the tribunal . |
| 14 | In the case of ecclesiastical property this may be done through the church authorities ; in the case of other buildings it will be possible to consult with the agents who handled the commercial matters concerned ; these can be identified by consultation with the local authority . |
| 15 | At the same time it would be possible to re-locate within the boundaries of the land owned by the Borough Council to improve drainage and avoid the part which would be affected by the proposed cross-town route . |
| 16 | ( I am not , however , suggesting that if you exercise it will be possible to live on a diet of eggs , butter and cream — moderation in all things ! ) |
| 17 | In La Technique Minière v Maschinenbau Ulm ( Case 56/65 [ 1966 ] ECR 935 ) the European Court of Justice stated that for Article 85 to apply " it must be possible to foresee with a sufficient degree of probability on the basis of a set of objective factors of law or of fact that the agreement in question may have an influence , direct or indirect , actual or potential , on the pattern of trade between Member States " . |
| 18 | But of course it would be possible to go through the behavioural motions of requesting without having any of the requisite beliefs and intentions . |
| 19 | This possibility has existed since the model became dynamic in 1976 ; with increased flexibility and resources it may now be possible to move towards a full-scale tracking exercise . |
| 20 | If none is available , it may be possible to arrange for a specialist physiotherapist to visit the hospital department to see the patient and suggest appropriate treatment lines to the physiotherapist there . |
| 21 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 22 | I wonder if , even at this late stage , it might be possible to arrange for the loan of an item from your collections for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer , of which you may already be aware . |
| 23 | Where this is not feasible , it may at least be possible to arrange for the experts to see the child together . |
| 24 | It used to be possible to skate over the frozen water from Ulvik right out to the Hardanger Fjord , but now the hydro-electric station discharges gallons of hot water into the fjord , and it no longer freezes in winter . |
| 25 | ( The main reasons for taking this approach is that for dynamic handwriting recognition it is necessary to select the correct information shortly after the word was written — it may not be possible to wait for the user to finish a sentence or clause . ) |
| 26 | It would be possible to search through the file until the record was located , but this technique , and the more refined methods available for searching sequential files in which there is no direct relationship between the record key and its storage location , are too slow for the needs of most enquiry systems . |
| 27 | Acheson informed the British ambassador in Washington on 24 December 1949 that because of inability ‘ to find satisfactory answers to certain basic problems confronting us ’ , it would not be possible to adhere to the schedule originally decided with Bevin in September . |
| 28 | In other words , if it were possible to remove the grievances of the middle classes against those above them , then it might also be possible to nip off the danger of an alliance between the middle classes and the working classes below them . |
| 29 | It would , of course , not be possible to argue along the lines of an ‘ implied term ’ of contract , since no contract exists . |
| 30 | Then , once the owner realizes that the building is of value , it may be possible to agree on a constructive course of action . |