Example sentences of "be [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's nowhere he 'd rather be than back in his native Enniskillen — where he can unashamedly lead life at a crawling pace . |
| 2 | They are 56 : ‘ Sweet love , renew thy force ; be it not said/Thy edge should blunter be than appetite ’ which expresses a feeling of temporarily spent force . |
| 3 | It was not possible to indicate what the premium would be if cover were to be provided automatically , because the BMIF was a separate body and was not prepared to consider this . |
| 4 | If indeed , therefore , this land performs a significant function with regard to the character of Skelton , one should have regard to what the effect on that character would be if development were , development of any kind . |
| 5 | Those rules are not immutable ; at each level , the rules can be bent and perhaps have to be if progress is to be made . |
| 6 | I would like to go further , however , and suggest that the best outcome would be if discretion over monetary policy were removed altogether from the hands of the Treasury and the Bank of England and legislated by Parliament in terms of a monetary rule . |
| 7 | Melanie tried to grasp how dreadful it would be if Finn were dead but she could not think coherently because of the terrible sound of Aunt Margaret 's silence . |
| 8 | In the absence of keen pricing from the Japanese , the competitive element in the UK market is reduced and therefore car prices are generally higher than they would be if market forces were allowed to operate freely . |
| 9 | What a peaceful world it would be if religion could be banished completely . |
| 10 | For some calls they wear plain clothes , but mostly work is done in uniform , as it must be if neighbourhood policing is to work . |
| 11 | ‘ What would cause horror would be if chloroform or dichloromethane were added to the protocol . |
| 12 | Bound to be cos litre 's l bit less than a gallon in n it ? |
| 13 | To the extent that the companies are actual or potential competitors , the agreement will restrict competition and , if there is an effect on inter-state trade ( which there is likely to be unless production is insignificant ) , there will be a breach of Article 85(1) . |
| 14 | This seems to be because temple , villa and tomb sites have been plundered — mainly in antiquity — rather than because of any original dearth . |
| 15 | This could be because exposure to the hazardous substance or substances did not occur in those populations or that being monitored for exposure to external radiation was not a marker of the relevant exposure . |
| 16 | ‘ This may be because nutrition not outside stimulation is the major environmental determinant of intelligence , ’ he concludes . |
| 17 | It could n't be because golf carts — ’ he levelled a look at Nelson ‘ — are careening round the grounds with a complete lack of any regard for safety . |
| 18 | This might be because building societies have developed some new product which personal savers prefer to National Savings certificates or it may simply be that interest rate differentials have changed in favour of the societies . |
| 19 | This could be because asthma is now better controlled during pregnancy than previously . |
| 20 | suggested that this might be because actinomycin had induced a change in local polynucleotide structure which in some manner slowed the dissociation of further drug molecules . |
| 21 | Firstly Chen [ 18 ] has shown that binding to GGCC in CATGGCCATG is slower than to TATGGCCATA and suggested that this might be because actinomycin molecules , stacking at the ends of the former duplex , can alter the DNA structure so as to facilitate further drug binding . |
| 22 | The use of calendar rather than trading time may be because interest accrues in calendar time , and information arrives during non-trading periods ( although possibly at a slower rate than in trading time ) . |
| 23 | This may be because interest must be met whereas dividends or equity can be passed or reduced . |
| 24 | Could this be because ballet lessons are now a very middle-class thing , like ponies ? |
| 25 | The test of relevance will be whether awareness of a fact does act causally on spontaneous inclination . |
| 26 | A question for the nineties will be whether credit markets are any different . |
| 27 | The real measure should be whether selection is significant against normal levels of background variation . |
| 28 | ‘ The concern must be whether interest rates have already been too high for too long , ’ Mr Wyatt said . |
| 29 | Madame wondered how long it would be before Boy got his hair cropped short so that he looked just like the others . |
| 30 | Now that some insurance companies are acknowledging the competence of some women drivers by reducing the premium they have to pay , I wonder how long it will be before car salesmen acknowledge the intelligence of women drivers ? |