Example sentences of "london [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pensioners living in and around London should be sure to keep Thursday 30 September free in their diaries . |
| 2 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 3 | The transformation of political sympathies identified for London might be exceptional , being directly linked to particular developments within the Corporation , and therefore a poor indicator of shifts in public opinion in the nation as a whole . |
| 4 | Editor , — Sir Bernard Tomlinson 's report on medical care in London seems to assume that many of the demands for care made on teaching hospitals in inner London could be satisfied by general practitioners and thus the need for acute beds in London would fall . |
| 5 | ‘ London would be nice … ’ |
| 6 | If he did , every honest man in London would be proud to report him to the police . |
| 7 | Her life in London would be full of secrets and safeguards ; full of routines and regular habits . |
| 8 | To invest such works a besieging army would have to be at least 700,000 strong , and London would be able to hold out a very long time , as the example of Paris showed ; the Prussian siege there lasted five months , and had things gone a little differently Paris might have been relieved . |
| 9 | The Lord Mayor of London , Sir Brian Jenkins , said : ‘ The City of London will be ready for work on Monday morning as usual . |
| 10 | A desire to get to London can be irrational only in relation to other desires . |